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

My 10 year old was catching a blue gill today and stepped on the side of the boat and went into the water. He was freaked out with his eyes wide as saucers, but held on to the rod in his right hand and got back on the boat with me grabbing his left. Fish was still on

He does clumsy stuff so often I am mostly immune, but this was funny

When I was younger I working on a rig about an hour by helicopter out of Intercoastal (Tenneco 252?) they had a Navy ship pass by the rig and about five minutes later a submarine with the periscope up passed by following it.

Back in the late 70’s while riding to the camp with my grandpa on Raccourci Island, we were going real slow looking for deer in the woods close to the road. Saw a heard of deer so big that I stopped counting at 40. Saw the same herd 2 more times that year then never saw more than 3-4 together again.

Was paddling one of the upper canyons on the Rio Verde, in San Luis Potosí. It's only a winter's day drive south of the border from McAllen to paddle some very good (and warm) whitewater.

There's several high quality waterfalls to run but this near 60' looked way too imposing. And with no way down short of jumping I rapped down to gather the soon to be tossed off boats. There was all manner of vegetation to wade through and that's when it happened. Never knew what it was, but now all alone below this big drop and a day south in Mexico, something just drove it's stinger, bite, or stuck into the back of my hand. I pulled it up quickly out of the water and right where the blood was a small pea size knot started traveling up a vein. It never stopped moving, just steadily traveling up the back of my hand, to an elbow, across my left bicep, and on up until I died.

Obviously not, but the thought did cross my mind. I lost track of whatever it was under my armpit and for a good two or three hours it was disconcerting. There was nothing to do but keep moving as the car was hours away downriver. I thought about telling my fiance but that didn't seem very manly and she would have just gone into nurse mode and slowed us all down. Hopefully I muse sometimes, it's some parasite that'll get me in my seventies, and spare me from loosing all past thoughts or dementia or maybe just before bed wetting.

Rabbit Island?

Nothing really crazy. About 3 weeks ago me and my son made an afternoon trip for some perch. We come to a part in the canal and about 200 frogs all of the sudden take off from the middle of the canal and head to the bank. They were small, about 1.5 -2" long.

Fished the Minimalist Challenge Kayak Tournament a few years back out of Leeville. Was in a very small winding drain, maybe 6ft wide, 2ft deep. I heard a loud squawking and splashing up ahead with birds overhead. I came around the corner to see a dolphin about 10ft onto the shore in the grass chasing something. Yes, completely on land and comfortable being there. I watched for about 30 seconds when one of the two dolphins in the water noticed me. The dolphin in the water came onto shore about half its body, grabbed the dolphin on land by the tail, and helped drag it back into the water. The three took off down the cut. They completely ruined the fishing for that long arse cut.

To finish the story, it took me an hour to get out of the dirty water left by the dolphins. When I did it was the main east-west canal in Leeville. I put out two jigheads with soft plastic to troll. 5 mins from getting out of the muddy water I caught a 42" redfish that took 30 mins to reel in on trout tackle. Its the biggest red Ive ever caught. I have a photo of the redfish, let me see if I can find it.

Almost 5 miles out of the pass in Panama City Beach, saw a huge rattlesnake just swimming in the gulf. Pulled right up beside it. I had no idea they did that but apparently they do

Years ago I went on one of those 4-day Chandeleur Island trips, where they send you out each day in little 2-man skiffs. As much as I enjoyed the fishing, I also enjoyed exploring each of the different types of islands in the area, so I'd often have my buddy just drop me off somewhere and pick me up an hour or two later. I was wading a flats area and ran across a group of hermit crabs - probably around 2 dozen just gathered all together in one spot. Then walking around the area, from every direction there were hermit crabs walking towards the big group. I can only assume it was a mating thing and the females must release some type of pheromone or whatever to attract the males.

Deer hunting- had a loc-on in a grove of persimmon trees climbed up one morning before daybreak for situated. Only to realize that a big Coon was now above me. I guess he was gonna try to wait me out never made a sound till he bailed down right behind me. Almost shite my pants .
Trout fishing- caught a school trout and all of sudden it starts swimming towards me, porpoise grabs it and proceeds to almost dump my baitcaster before letting it loose. Trout looked like it had a wire wheel that hit it.
Mississippi canyon- watched a school of porpoises catch and release then kill fish and swim around with them dead in their mouth then turn them loose and pass them around like a football. The game went on for more than 30mins. Was crazy..