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Craziest Thing You've ever Seen on the water while fishing or in the outdoors

Posted on 8/9/19 at 6:46 pm
Posted by BooDreaux
Orlandeaux
Member since Sep 2011
3300 posts
Posted on 8/9/19 at 6:46 pm
Stories lately about planes landing on highways and people seeing planes crash in water lately got me thinking about this.

I was about to step out of boat to go use bathroom. Thought I was about to step on a log, it was early morning so hard to see, up by the bank. Not a log, huge gator that did that mating ritual where the water starts to vibrate on it's back it bellows... Scared the hell out of me

What have you seen?
This post was edited on 8/9/19 at 6:47 pm
Posted by RogerTheShrubber
Juneau, AK
Member since Jan 2009
261680 posts
Posted on 8/9/19 at 7:03 pm to
Saw a bear swimming in a fjord, and it popped up on a piece of ice

Minke whale attacked and killed by orcas.
Posted by Tigre85
Louisiana
Member since Feb 2019
1921 posts
Posted on 8/9/19 at 7:05 pm to
Saw a bass jump out of the water and swallow a small cardinal on a limb at little chenier .
Posted by plazadweller
South Georgia
Member since Jul 2011
11458 posts
Posted on 8/9/19 at 7:08 pm to
Last summer a guy on a wave runner fell off, the kill switch chord snapped in 1/2, the throttle got stuck while going wide open. I watched it disappear into the shoreline 1.5 mile away. Drove up to it and it was in pieces. Luckily enough was intact to tow it a mile or so to their dock/shore. It picked one of the few undeveloped areas on Lake Eufaula on that particular area of the lake to crash. I along with another group on a boat were the only people who took it remotely seriously. Drunk asses partying on the island thought it was a fricking joke.
Posted by yattan
Member since Nov 2013
897 posts
Posted on 8/9/19 at 7:37 pm to
Black panther. Will one day post camera pics.
Posted by AlxTgr
Kyre Banorg
Member since Oct 2003
81739 posts
Posted on 8/9/19 at 8:50 pm to
Fishing during a storm. Heard buzzing, but we stayed anyway. Made a cast and my line stayed in the air. Loudest lightning strike ever happened immediately after. We hauled arse.
Posted by Tridentds
Sugar Land
Member since Aug 2011
20496 posts
Posted on 8/9/19 at 9:03 pm to
I was wade fishing in East Matagorda and some type of small bird was coming at me from across the water and was struggling to stay in the air. Came all the way into me and had kind of a rough landing into the front of my fishing shirt. It was panting pretty hard and hanging on with its feet. I moved it to my shoulder and fished another 15-20 minutes then headed back to shore and took it off my shoulder and sat it on a branch.
Posted by Duck Fever
Member since Jul 2019
59 posts
Posted on 8/9/19 at 9:43 pm to
I had 2 Dolphin chasing baitfish through my decoys during a duck hunt in Delacroix. Water was 2 ft deep in the pond.
Posted by Bee Man
Hester, LA
Member since Mar 2018
328 posts
Posted on 8/9/19 at 9:43 pm to
Saw an otter come out of the water onto the bank of a canal in DesAllemands with a 2 lb bass in its mouth. As I headed that way, he dropped it and went back into the water. Right before I got the the bass, it flopped into the water.
Posted by rballa19
Lake Charles, LA
Member since Oct 2009
4380 posts
Posted on 8/10/19 at 3:59 am to
My dad and I were fishing a tournament on Toledo last September and some bass came up schooling close to the bank. Something started looking weird, like how a fish does when it's hooked but we hadn't hooked any. Got over there and there were two bass stuck together, one's head inside the other one's mouth. They were just flipping over and over, I went to get my phone out to video and they came apart and swam off.
Posted by SkintBack
SoLo
Member since Nov 2015
1673 posts
Posted on 8/10/19 at 7:30 am to
Fishing Lake Verret, passed a stump full of snakes. About 15 minutes later hear a bunch of popping. 2 ole boys unloading on 'em. We were maybe 150 yards away. About 2 minutes later my uncle is swatting snakes with his rod trying to keep them out of the boat yelling to GTFO
Posted by Cowboyfan89
Member since Sep 2015
12731 posts
Posted on 8/10/19 at 7:51 am to
Last year, I had a deer run past me at 10 feet, and stop about 15 yards up slope from me. The deer never even noticed me, just kept looking back into the swamp. Next thing I know, a coyote comes out of nowhere running straight at me! It stopped and veered off back towards the swamp about 15 or 20 feet away from me.

All I could figure was that coyote got that deer's scent and was chasing him.

ETA: during my internship, we were working around the Chandeleur Islands. The weather got really bad, and the boat captain finally talked my boss into hauling arse back to the mainland. On the way back, we saw 2 or 3 waterspouts. None of them where in our path, and all were a safe distance away, but not a fun feeling when you are in a 21' bayboat way out there.
This post was edited on 8/10/19 at 7:55 am
Posted by TigerAxeOK
Where I lay my head is home.
Member since Dec 2016
24969 posts
Posted on 8/10/19 at 8:22 am to
I've seen some crazy, hilarious and downright frightening things in the woods.

The creepiest though was when I was about 15.

My best friend at the time and I used to fish what we called "3 track bridges" in central Oklahoma. There were three consecutive bridges down the train tracks about two miles east of town and the fishing was pretty good at two of them.

The first bridge is over an overflow area from a very shallow 25 acre flood plane that was designated as a wildlife preserve by Oklahoma Game and Fish. The second bridge is over a creek slough, and the third is over the creek itself.

Every two or three years, it would rain enough that the game preserve watershed, which was around 20 surface acres of water, would rise and actually flow out over the earthen embankments under the first bridge. When this happened, it would wash fish out of the wildlife preserve... big fish. Big fish that had never once seen a fishing lure and you could catch them nearly every cast.

Might sound like complete bullshite but I swear this is true. My buddy and I would have tu take turns carrying our stringers of fish back to town when the first bridge would flood under it. 2 to 3 pound crappie were average. 4 to 8 pound bass were average. It was absolutely insane.

So one morning just after a monster rain, my buddy and I were walking the tracks to that spot with our rods and tackle boxes to see if it had flooded. As we got there it was that twilight time in the AM where everything is still dark, but you can start seeing trees pretty decently against the sky. It was early spring so the trees weren't completely leafy yet and still appeared pretty barren of leaves.

We began to notice that were things perched in the trees. It was too dark to tell but as the morning light increased it became obvious that it was owls. A lot of owls. Barred owls, barn owls and horned owls. Sometimes 20-30 owls in a single tree, and we could see literally hundreds of owls just from our vantage point. Not one of them ever made a sound. Just sat there in complete silence, staring at us. Every one of them that we could see, looking right at us.

We're both Native American and we got the hell out of there with a quickness. We came back later in the day and they were all gone. The following morning and every morning thereafter, they were gone. Never heard of such a thing. Only saw it once.

Have talked to game wardens and they've never heard of such a thing. Talked to the county Fish and Game Biologists and they both said that owls do not congregate like that or behave socially like that at all, period. Also spoke to several Tribal elders from different local tribes who all said we were right to leave, but had no explanation.

None of the people we told had ever even heard of this happening before, nor had any clue why it would have happened. That was 25 years ago and it still gives me the chills and makes me wonder.
Posted by rattlebucket
SELA
Member since Feb 2009
11486 posts
Posted on 8/10/19 at 9:09 am to
SW Miss near Brookhaven I saw two Lear jets just above tree tops flying together and it looked like they were dog fighting.
Posted by JohnWicksDawg
Member since Mar 2018
358 posts
Posted on 8/10/19 at 5:37 pm to
Caught a seagull while trout fishing. Bird decided to dive on something while my bait was in the air. Ended up having to cut my line (grubs & jigheads aren't that expensive).

Both my boys were with me - probably ages 9 & 11. They were were apparently pretty impressed - 'cause every now and then they'll tell their kids to ask me about "the time I caught the seagull."
Posted by Churchill
Member since Apr 2009
499 posts
Posted on 8/10/19 at 6:02 pm to
I found a piece of the Columbia space shuttle near Leesville on my lease. It took me a couple of seconds to comprehend what it was. The local sheriffs office picked it up from me. In hindsight I should have kept it. It was about the size of a trash can lid. Part of the fuel tank or something with burnt edges all around. All stainless.
Posted by Permit
Stuart, FL
Member since Jan 2017
366 posts
Posted on 8/10/19 at 6:08 pm to
Was wading for bonefish in the bahamas. Hooked one and he took off zigzagging all over the water. A couple of minutes after I landed him my buddy saw a shark come into the area. The bonefish left a bubble trail during the entire fight. The shark turned out to be a big bull shark and followed the bonefish bubble trail right up to me. I hit him on the head with my fly rod and he turned away. Bout crapped my pants
This post was edited on 8/10/19 at 6:10 pm
Posted by HollyWoodCole
CA
Member since Nov 2017
1255 posts
Posted on 8/10/19 at 6:55 pm to
Today at Fred’s landing on the Amite, I saw multiple boats and state agencies pulling all kinds of debris from the river/river banks and bringing it back to the dock.

Old boat hulls, giant trees, tires, rusted metal barrels, etc.

It shocked the hell out of me because as trashy as that section of the river gets, I’ve never seen an effort like I saw today to clean it.

to all involved.

I was beyond hyped.
Posted by TigahTeeth
Georgia
Member since Feb 2016
5191 posts
Posted on 8/10/19 at 7:30 pm to
Wade fishing with my brother-in-law in the Chattahoochee river about a year ago we heard a loud cracking sound from the bank and 50+ foot tree crashed into the river maybe 30 yards from us. Scared the shite out of us.
Posted by lsuson
Metairie
Member since Oct 2013
12237 posts
Posted on 8/10/19 at 7:41 pm to
Was around 15 deer hunting and was walking on part of the lease around 10:00am looking for deer signs. I was right next to creek and all of a sudden I hear something moving along the creek bed towards me. A few minutes later up pops a button buck and literally walks 3 feet from me while I stay frozen. Just looked at me and smelled a little and then walked off.


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