"Wayne.B" wrote in message
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On Fri, 20 Oct 2006 00:05:37 GMT, Short Wave Sportfishing
wrote:

About 15 pounds, nice big fat blue and the thing latched onto my
Docksiders and would not let go. I literally had to cut it off the
shoe resulting in blood everywhere - it was quite a mess.


In the middle of the afternoon a small kid let out a terrified shreik
like he was being eaten alive by a shark. Everyone rushed over to see
what the problem was, and it turned out that a ticked off blue fish
had eaten through a burlap bag and grabbed this kid by the pant leg.

It was pretty hilarious once we realized he was OK.


First time for me was while I was stationed in Annapolis, MD. I didn't know
what a blue was, but one day everybody was running down to the bay with
fishing rods yelling that the "blues" were running. I grabbed my light
weight freshwater rod and put a six inch Rebel lure on it. Cast it into the
middle of the feeding frenzy and immediately hooked up with a 12 lb blue. I
don't think the Rebel had even hit the water.

Somehow I got it in and pulled it on shore beside me. I reached down,
intending to remove the lure that was about halfway into the blue's mouth.
It clamped down on the lure, shattering it into pieces. By then a friend
far more knowledgeable than I about blues came over, slapped my hand away
and explained what blues were all about.

Eisboch