"Never Seen Anything Quite so Bizarre or Incredible"

Not much fishing to report from me this past week so I thought I would share this gem from the Business Times of Australia.

International Business Times

By Ivan Adnan06 June 2009 @ 02:26 pm AEST
KAUAI - A man in Hawaii has caught what is possibly the luckiest catch of any era a fish that has coughed up a gold watch.

Curt Carish was at a picnic with others in the vicinity of Port Allen Beach on the island of Kauai when the group of friends spied a fish clumsily swimming close to the shore, The Garden Island website reports.

Encouraged by his friends Mr. Carish jumped into the water and clubbed the 10-inch fish unconscious, with a bamboo stick.

Mr. Carish mentioned he had noticed the fish's stomach appeared abnormally large but did not give it any thought after tossing it into an esky. (An “esky” is a cooler)

A friend later opened the cooler, to make the discovery of a gold watch next to the fish's mouth.

"The funniest thing is that the watch was on time and still ticking," Mr. Carish was quoted by the website as saying.

Mr. Carish believes that in the 30 years he had been living in Hawaii he had never seen anything quite so bizarre or incredible.

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He has obviously never been fishing with Brad "Fish Hawk" McC.