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RE: [OM] To Catch A Real Dolphin?

Subject: RE: [OM] To Catch A Real Dolphin?
From: "James N. McBride" <jnmcbr@xxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 May 2001 00:17:21 -0600
I think you should not eat so many of those little gin-soaked olives for
lunch.  /jnm

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> Sent: Monday, May 14, 2001 8:28 PM
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> Subject: [OM] To Catch A Real Dolphin?
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> Hey guys,
>
> A little of topic discussion, but I did take a photo with a disposable
> camera, of something strange that happened to me in the Florida Keys over
> the weeked.
>
> You won't believe what happened to me in the Keys, I was fishing
> (trolling)
> and hooked on to a big fish and was fighting it for about 15 minutes. A
> school of porpoises got real close to our boat and I asked my buddy, "Hey
> you don't think there going after my fish, do you?"  "He said,
> no, dolphins
> are real smart!" Well the kept getting closer and I started
> getting a little
> worried, and then started feeling my fish, get excited on the end of the
> line.(For any fishermen, you know what I mean by this.)
>
> The dolphin then took my fish and I was hooked onto a real life dolphin
> (porpoise), what a collectible huh? I fought the mammal for over
> an hour as
> we chased it with our boat. We were trying to get as much line back, or
> possibly get the hook out. We got the mammal about 10 feet of the
> boat, and
> cut the line. Weighed in my estimation 300-500lbs?
>
>
> In all my years of fishing, I have never heard of such a thing. I
> have seen
> birds snagged, along with turtles and lobsters, in my life,  but never a
> true life, porpoise. (This porpoise was hooked as he ate my fish)
>
> Anyone else have a fishing tale?
>
> Sam.....
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