I imagine if you're on the site and reading these posts that you enjoy fishing. However, if you're anything like me, there's a few things that you just do not like to catch. I have two in particular. One of which are eels. I grew up in Maryland and used to fish the catwalk at the Conowingo dam several times every summer. Mixed in with the small Rockfish and channel cats were always eels. Nothing crap on my excitement like seeing one of those slimy little buggers twisting and turning as I brought it up the wall. And then, to make matters worse as soon as they got close enough to the chain-link fence they would wrap their squirmy little bodies into the metal and my line and gear with it. I can't tell you how many lines I just cut and is disgust and moved on. I recently added another fish to this list. The salt water catfish. While traveling in Tampa for work recently, I caught a whole mess of these. I've been warned about the barbs, and I've caught freshwater catfish for over 30 years so I didn't think too much about taking them off the hook. Until one of them stuck me. My hand doubled in size, and I could barely reel in the rest of the nasty little cats that I caught for the rest of the night. What about the rest your folks? Are there any fish you just dread seeing on the end of your line? Anything you'd rather get skunked then see hanging off your hook?
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I caught, or more accurately was caught by, a seagull. During cast off back of boat during rock season a gull ended up with hook thru nostril or whatever hole is on top of beak. I reeled him in and he had his feet forward and wings cupped so it was a little fun getting him in the boat. That is when the fun stopped. That flapping pair of pliers bit and slapped everyone he could. He finally spit out the hook and took off. About thirty minutes later another guy on the boat did the same thing! I went inside the wheel house for that one.
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Ghonnerea is prolly my worst catch.
That made me laugh. Only you.
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Sounds bad. Is that related to gonorrhea?
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Oyster cracker downs my day Everytime
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I've caught a few of them while fishing for catfish!!
So many things I didn't want to hook but did. I hooked Capt. Burton in the ear lobe. Many sea gulls and pelicans. Big fish in FL. that I wasn't fishing for that will strip all your line off if you let them. Rays, and even a big bull frog on a little jig in a lake.
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X2 and Horseshoe crabs
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