What the...SQUIRREL???

[FishnDave]

Fished Saturday, same place. Fishing was even tougher than before! Only caught 4 trout!

I was fishing, not really anyone nearby,...asphalt walking path behind me, trees on the others side.  The trees really didn't overhang the path by much and didn't reach out over the water.  I'm looking at the water and see a shadow appear.  I'm watching the shadow, and then a big splash as whatever cast the shadow hit the water about 25' in front of me.  I immediately looked up to see if a bird of prey was flying over and dropped something.  No birds.  I looked around to see if anyone was nearby messing with me.  Nobody.  I looked at the trees to see if whatever it was could have fallen from the trees into the water.  Nope...the trees weren't close enough.  That "thing" that hit the water was a squirrel.  It never moved after it hit the water...I feel pretty certain it was dead before it hit the water.  Has this happened to anyone?  I can't seem to wrap my mind around a good explanation of where this dead squirrel came from.  I've had stuff hit the water in front of me before while fishing (more than once)....but never a dead squirrel.  Pretty bizarre.

This fella made it into my house, but was quickly returned to the wild:

[Johnsfolly]

I would agree that the squirrel was dead before it hit the water.

I've seen them fall from trees and hit pretty hard on the ground and then run off but never fall dead into the water.

[fshndoug]

A flying squirrel with a heart problem?

[Johnsfolly]

26 minutes ago, fshndoug said:

A flying squirrel with a heart problem?

Now that's funny right there no matter who you are!

[FishnDave]

They are trying to get in...

https://youtu.be/buBOtHHADHY

[Flysmallie]

Probably a Bigfoot. They are known to use squirrel guns. Kind of like a potato gun but they use squirrels. 

[Johnsfolly]

14 minutes ago, Flysmallie said:

Probably a Bigfoot. They are known to use squirrel guns. Kind of like a potato gun but they use squirrels. 

Everyone knows that those Squatch's are tricky SOB's. Does not surprise me that they have SG capabilities. Far surpasses any weaponry that those Yeti's have to date.

Seriously my daughter and I were watching a nature show and they were transporting endangered crocodiles in PVC tubes to release them. We both thought that they looked like they were going to shoot those crocodiles out into the lakes.

[liphunter]

 

11 minutes ago, Johnsfolly said:

they were transporting endangered crocodiles in PVC tubes

Yea, I hear about that on the news a lot. I'm not sure why they are so interested in them. But I've heard that them people that are addicted to meth, use them crock pipes all the time...

[fishinwrench]

I was wade fishing and had a Squirrel fall out of a tree into the stream....and then tried to use ME to climb up out of the water 😲

Oh HELL NO!   Nothing looks more alien and gross as a wet Squirrel. And there's no way I was going to allow THAT.   I wooshed him away and he made his way safely to the bank.  He tried to climb up the nearest tree.....but apparently they can't do that with a few pounds of water weight hanging onto them. 

[DADAKOTA]

Wrench - Too bad it wasn't a monkey.