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

Was out of south pass beyond the mud lumps in 30 feet of water and see a huge splash. A group of 4-5 manta rays each 10’ wide jumping 8 feet out the water. We pull up and one is under us. Wider then the boat. We were in awe.

I was driving home from work one night and an owl flew right into my windshield outta nowhere. He must of thought my truck was a big arse field rat or something. Cracked the top right of the windshield real bad. Scared the absolute shite out of me.

Another time... I was a kid riding with my dad at night. I can't recall what the temperture contrast was that cause them to do it, but it had rained and the rural interstate highway was covered with night crawlers. Enough to make the road slick.

The old man pulls over and scoops up enough to half fill a throwaway styrofoam cooler and we go on our merry way.

Headed hunting in Natchez 30 years ago with a buddy , about 2AM near homochitto forest had to pee. Not a car have I passed in an hour so pretty much stopped in the road. Above us was a huge ufo barely making a sound but the wind off of it was enough to make us notice it.
Huge. Right above trees. You could see the bottom of it clearly and it was just easing along about double tree top high.

Couple years ago my cousin and law and me took our sons to grand isle. We stayed at bridgeside and went fishing at night around the slips and piers. There were small flounder cruising the top of the water and the boys were able to scoop a dozen or more 10 to 14” or so of them with a dip net.

Same thing happened to me on WPA road. Scared the shite out of me. Owl flew right off after cocking his head at me from the road.

Probably the water spout that passed just on the other side of Hwy 1 from where I was at during the Paddlepalooza kayak fishing tournament a few months ago

I have been on an abandon shell oil field road in S Louisiana surrounded by a cypress/gum swamp and have. Seen a congregation of 30-40 Arredondo owls. Just thought it was an owl thing.

The only cryptic thing I have ever seen was up in Wisconsin. Driving back from a golf tournament I saw fox cross the road that was as tall as a 2 year old fawn.

I was hunting along an old 4 wheeler trail with thick undergrowth on each side. I hunted there often and had taken a couple bucks crossing it before. There were pre-rut scrapes and a rain the night before so I was hoping to see one cruising early to freshing the scrapes up. Low and behold soon after day break I get ready as I hear some crashing around in the undergrowth and what comes out next... An Ostrich! A mother fricking Ostrich! I ended up letting it go obviously not knowing what to do but in hindsight I hear they eat pretty tasty and maybe I lost out on that chance How it got there I have no idea besides getting lose from someones pin