Re: [Paddlewise] When Animals Attack!

I had a Canadian friend who had an interesting encounter while fishing with a
hand line in Baja.  He was jigging a small piece of fish on a lead head jig
along the bottom and felt like he had snagged the bottom.  He pulled hard and
the line slowly started to come in like he had a big ball of weeds or a log on
the line.  As he got it up to the side of the kayak he said he saw the tips of
some tenticules and he thought "how could I have snagged a starfish"?  Then he
saw tenticles on the otherside of the kayak as well and the line started to get
pulled really hard!  A good size octopus slide up on his deck and gave him the
evil eye.  The critter just gave him a mean look, spit the hook and slid back
over the side.  It was pretty funny hearing him holler-this is not the sort of
thing that usually happens in Ontario.
Del Belaire wrote:

> Thanks for the pictures, makes my scariest animal encounter in a kayak sound
> pretty tame.  I had a large golden lab chasing me through some shallows one
> day, didn't know if he was attacking or had love in mind.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Dave Kruger <dkruger_at_pacifier.com>
> To: <dldecker_at_se.mediaone.net>
> Cc: <paddlewise_at_lists.intelenet.net>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 11:05 PM
> Subject: Re: [Paddlewise] warning,Charleston,life,Derek,sharks and etc.
>
> > Surprisingly little damage, considering the strength of a shark's jaws.
> My
> > story is less impressive:  in Baja in '86 the double my son and I were
> > paddling got swacked across its nose with the tail of a large basking
> > shark.  We had no idea what it was, and hustled our butts to catch up with
> > the guide!
> >
> > dldecker_at_se.mediaone.net wrote:
> > >
> > > here are the pictures of the kayak the shark bit
> > > http://www.jacksonville.net/~dldecker/tooth.htm
> >
> > --
> > Dave Kruger
> > Astoria, OR
> >
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