Strange Things We See On The Water

[Old plug]

I had a owl try to steel a wake bait from me this past spring. I was retrieving it along a bank in a wooded area. All of a sudden there was a big flash by my head and this owl was taking aim at my wake bait. I hollered and she broke away and flee back to a limb about 15 ft from me and sat there and stared at me. As soon a I casted again she was right on it. But again I yelled and she broke off and went back and sat there looking at me. This was repeated several times. When i told someone on here about it he had to make some disparaging remarks about me being to old to mess with hooters.

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[fishinwrench]

Lots of crazy experiences over the years but the one that still takes the cake and remains a mystery to me happened at Marshall Diggs lake in the mid-80's when 4 huge objects fell from the sky and landed dead in the center of the 15 acre lake. Each of whatever they were made huge splashes like what you'd expect if four V8 engine blocks were dropped out of a plane. The waves lapped back and forth against the banks for 15 minutes afterwards. There was no aircraft in sight (or heard) before or immediately after all the commotion.

If that lake is ever drained I just have to know WTH that was, and how they could have landed right smack in the middle of the lake like that.

Meteors? (What are the odds there would be 4 different chunks and all hit within 20 yards of each other? )

Military excersize? (Surely not! Because if someone had been out there in a boat it wouldn't have been good)

[Bird Watcher]

Lots of crazy experiences over the years but the one that still takes the cake and remains a mystery to me happened at Marshall Diggs lake in the mid-80's when 4 huge objects fell from the sky and landed dead in the center of the 15 acre lake. Each of whatever they were made huge splashes like what you'd expect if four V8 engine blocks were dropped out of a plane. The waves lapped back and forth against the banks for 15 minutes afterwards. There was no aircraft in sight (or heard) before or immediately after all the commotion.

If that lake is ever drained I just have to know WTH that was, and how they could have landed right smack in the middle of the lake like that.

Meteors? (What are the odds there would be 4 different chunks and all hit within 20 yards of each other? )

Military excersize? (Surely not! Because if someone had been out there in a boat it wouldn't have been good)

My Dad has the same story, only with two objects instead of 4 and it was on a small lake in OK. I always offer up the big blue popsicle explanation. He disagrees.

[countryred]

Had a big flock of pelicans rise up ,fly in a circle above the boat for a few minutes and crap all over the boat. Appeared they ate a lot of shad.

Caught a dead coon on a jerkbait once at Lake of the Ozarks. I think a landowner popped him with a 22 for crapping on his dock.

Almost hit a deer with my boat running upriver one morning. I was hauling butt and came around a curve and a whole herd was crossing. Cut between 2 and missed them by inches.

[stlfisher]

Years ago at bush wildlife I saw a guy get out of a truck screaming gibberish. He grabbed a lawn chair and a cooler and headed for the lake. He walked as for out as he could, sat down, cracked a beer, and then took all his clothes off. The whole time chanting some gibberish. I remember my dad saying "This is why we go to college."

While fishing the Current a squirrel fell out of a tree and landed in the stream a few away from me. Startled the heck out of me.

Again on the Current one evening...the fog was thick...only a few fee to of visibility. I rounded a bend and out of the fog I see a heron heading straight for me. He saw me about the same time I saw him, made some weird noise and changed course just in time to avoid my head. I nearly crapped my pants. Felt like I was being stalked by a Pterodactyl from Jurassic Park.

Probably the oddest was fishing a city lake up in STL. It was fall and I would fish it for an hour or two at night. One day I am about to release a bass and I feel something cold on the back of my leg...it made my hair stand up. I jump back and so does the critter looking at me in amusement and staring at my fish. Turned out to be a fox...that I am assuming people had fed. For two weeks every time I showed up he would shadow me around the lake staying about 5 feet away. He would get excited when I would catch a fish, but not happy when I let them go. Never saw him after that two week period, but it was nice of him to keep me company.

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Weirdest has to be the two 250 pound land mammals that were sunbathing buck naked on a levee on the lower big muddy river. I didn't regain my vision for a couple of weeks, and I think I still have retinal scarring.

Sorry about that, I was trying to get a European tan?

[Blazerman]

Once while floating we were riding the shuttle bus to our drop off point and on the bus with us was a very large woman with a guy and a small baby. When we got to the drop off spot we grabbed our canoe and our stuff and headed out. As we are pulling away I notice the guy loading up a canoe. Now this woman had to be close to 250 at least. And they had this small baby in a car seat and on top of that they had a huge cooler. I couldn’t believe they were going to try and float in a canoe with this kid and I said to my buddy this is not going to be good. So we hung around long enough to watch them get underway and to see if the canoe would actually float with both of them in it and it did but just barely.

So we get a little ways ahead of them and come to the first swift spot and we beached the canoe and wade out to start fishing. A few canoes go by then we hear the couple. Apparently she is not happy about the way he is paddling and letting him know about it.

So they come into view and get to the swift spot where the current swings around a sand bar, and she is hollering and then tries to shift in her seat and the canoe rolls right over. He grabs the baby and walks over to the beach. She is bobbing in the current and screaming grab the cooler, grab the cooler. I grabbed the canoe and pulled it over to the beach where he was standing and my buddy is trying to grab the cooler but before he can it rolls over and everything comes out. Inside this cooler is beer and fried chicken and all kinds of stuff including a plastic cake holder filled with potato salad. And it is all floating downstream and spilling all over. I am standing next to the guy and he looks at me and says I knew this was a bad idea.

She gets her footing and comes over where we are standing and starts screaming at him about the food being gone and says something like I am not floating anywhere without our food and beer. And storms up the bank. He stands there for a second and then follows her with the baby. My buddy and I look at each other and he says what should we do? I said I don’t know. So we pull the canoe up on the beach and turn it over and then started floating again. Along the way we use the net to scoop up what we can of their stuff and we never did see them again.

[Bird Watcher]

I once scooped up a covey of quail that had tried to fly all the way across the lake. I just happened to see them flush off one bank and they made it 3/4 of the way across when they all dove straight down in the water. I drove over and scooped them all up with a landing net took them to the bank and let them go.

[chambug]

A buddy and I were plugging toward the bank from my bass boat. We rounded a point and saw a squirrel sitting on a stump about 3 feet out from the bank. As we watched, a very large black bass leaped over the stump and gobbled the squirrel.

While we discussed the chances of us being a witness to this very unlikely event, the bass swam up and placed another pecan on the stump.

(I forgot to state that we were fishing on Lake TEXoma, but that same bass told me the MO nuts would correct me if i didn't say acorn.)