So, my dad and I take the boys out in the outrigger to paddle around and fish the Indian River today.     I spot a lone bobber floating in the distance.    I tell Evan "Cool, a free bobber" and we paddle over to it.     I reach for it and it takes off away, but under water.         We start laughing like "game on", something different today.      We chase it back and forth a while and can never get very close again.     I then cast a small spoon and catch the line just below the bobber and reel back in, to then finish hand-line a nice medium catfish.      My dad was following us in his kayak and we all had good laughs.      Nothing worthy caught to eat today, and we let him go free from his exercise equipment......still good times.              -Aloha

Thats great when something like that happens. I have a similiar story:

I was snook fishing when I got snagged on something. It was giving a little bit, so I figured my bait had just swam around some random crap on the bottom. Anyways, I ended up reeling up a fishing reel complete with a way over slot bull red on the line. Heh. I wonder what the odds of things like this actually are? I probably should have bought a lotto ticket that day.

"I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ." - Mohandas K Gandhi

i caught a handgun rolled up in a sock in titusville once...go figure

i was fishing in a private phosphate pit near lakeland one day and had a stringer of 12 nice specs attached to the dock and when i went to leave i picked up the stringer and it had two water mocasins on two different fish, needless to say i brought home no fish and went straight to wal mart for a new pair of underwear.lol

I taught you everything i know and you still don't know nothin.

Fun story..doesnt take much to amuse me...

Im sorry butI have to one up all of you...

Buddy says lets fish the spillway for snook its been going off, after work(bartending, old days). So he is on in the first 10 seconds. im thinking damm it is going off. He proceeds to land a 20lbs tarpon but i look closer and i tell him look at this!!! the tarpon had broken somebody off and had like 100lbs leader coming out of his mouth with a swivel attached. My buddys life bait hook went thru the swivel and he landed the fish. How bout that one

  .. and the fishing was not going off, not another bite....

There are quite a few of those "handgun fish species" in T-ville area, know your slot limits people          No slot limit on .45's......

Years ago I was fly fishing for trout on opening day in Stoney Creek in central PA.  I was drifting a nymph deep under dark ledge and catching a few small ones now and then.  Once when I went to pick the line up for another cast it went tight.  I felt something heavy on the line and saw a silver flash way down deep.  It was looking like the 6 mile walk to fish remote waters was going to pay off with a trouphy rainbow.  It really did feel like it was fighting, but when I got it up it turned out it was a 6 pack of 16 oz cream ales.  A rainbow it was not, but a trophy catch none the less.   

it was a 38 snub, no slot no size!!

was fishing a flat and saw a "flats equalizer".  I was going to slowly trolling motor up to it and grab it.  It took off when I got close.  After it settled I casted over to it and ended up catching 2 nice reds.  Not the one on the float, but 2 others that were apparantly hanging with him.....