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Fishing's Greatest Misadventures
by Tyler McMahon

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Fishing’s Greatest Misadventures presents twenty-six true stories which cover the spectrum from terrifying to comical to downright bizarre. In these pages everyday fishermen, pros, and journalists tell their stories of freak accidents, fishy attacks, pranks, idiotic decisions, eerie or unexplained incidents, and other jaw dropping, adrenalin-pumping calamities. The stories bring to life the strange possibilities that await us once we cast our lines into known and unknown waters.

Here are some of the characters you'll meet inside these pages:

* A sport fisherman who gets taken on harrowing underwater ride by an angry white shark.
* An adventure angler whose boat is over turned by a 200 lb Amazon-river catfish.
* A group of ice fishermen who lose their cabin, gear and pride to a single pike.
* A teenager who sabotages a fish farm and frees 300,000 salmon.
* A charter boat operator who gets speared thro...
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« Reply #75 on: March 15, 2010, 03:44:08 PM »

I can hear the spring peepers in the background. 
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« Reply #76 on: March 15, 2010, 03:48:13 PM »

I just opened it back up and saw the spider starting to crawl down onto the camera lens.  Now you can't see the spider, but the movement I'm seeing may be the spinning of a web.
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« Reply #77 on: March 15, 2010, 03:49:08 PM »

I was wondering if that blurriness on the top left corner might be a web.
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« Reply #78 on: March 15, 2010, 03:51:28 PM »

After a spider was mentioned on here the other day, I decided that must be what was across the lens the other night.  Not that I know for sure, it just made sense.
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« Reply #79 on: March 15, 2010, 04:06:21 PM »

They just changed places.

I really should be doing something besides watching the eagles, but it is just so neat to be able to see how nature works.
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« Reply #80 on: March 15, 2010, 04:08:05 PM »

Same here, loonlover. 
I can't seem to turn it off.
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« Reply #81 on: March 15, 2010, 09:49:40 PM »

So I didn't see the spider tonight. Smiley
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« Reply #82 on: March 16, 2010, 05:04:28 AM »

I can't seem to log on to the site this morning. 
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« Reply #83 on: March 16, 2010, 05:27:38 AM »

So I didn't see the spider tonight. Smiley

Lucky you.  I didn't really enjoy that close a view of a spider.

I can't seem to log on to the site this morning. 
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I haven't been able to get on either.

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« Reply #84 on: March 16, 2010, 06:17:12 AM »

I was just able to get on, finally.
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« Reply #85 on: March 16, 2010, 09:08:17 AM »

My DD has late start at school today.  so we all slept in! Cheesy
Just tuning in....
Hopefully 5 more days till we get an eaglet!
Deb - we need a counter!
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« Reply #86 on: March 16, 2010, 09:27:21 AM »

Great idea, Carol.
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« Reply #87 on: March 16, 2010, 09:43:54 AM »

HAHA!  that's great, Deb!  I laughed when I saw you over on Dona's thread!
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« Reply #88 on: March 16, 2010, 11:15:35 AM »

Beatiful birds in Original picture.
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« Reply #89 on: March 17, 2010, 08:53:02 AM »

Is anyone else getting impatient for the egg to hatch? Huh
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« Reply #90 on: March 17, 2010, 09:04:27 AM »

I was up at 4am watching the bird sleep.  I'm anxious. 
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« Reply #91 on: March 17, 2010, 09:29:05 AM »

Deb, I can't figure out what that structure is up in the left hand corner.  Any ideas?
Also, it says the temp is only 32.  Is it really that chilly there today?
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« Reply #92 on: March 17, 2010, 11:46:56 AM »

I'm getting a little anxious and also afraid I'll miss it.  We'll be at our son's in Texas this weekend so it would be kind of rude to spend too much time on eagle watch.  But I bet I do check it out more than once a day.
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« Reply #93 on: March 18, 2010, 09:18:15 AM »

My two college kids will be home on Spring Break,  Cheesy so I don't know how much time I'll have to watch the nest.
Last night, about 7:40pm ET, I saw the spider.  first his little legs were up by the lens and he looked huge!  Then he climbed down the pole and he looked puny!
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« Reply #94 on: March 18, 2010, 09:23:20 AM »

Carol, if I'm looking at the same thing you are I believe it's the side of a road.
The lines look like rumble strips to me.  But that's just a guess.
It was chilly yesterday and this morning, but in the 60s during the day.

Carol, I have your cell number.  I can text you if something happens. 
Loonlover, I can do the same for you if you'd like.  I plan to have the computer
on as much as possible both days.
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« Reply #95 on: March 18, 2010, 05:33:37 PM »

Deb, I think texting would be the best for me, as DH thinks I'm a little wacky for following the eagles so much. Roll Eyes

I've been watching now for about 1/2 hr, and I swear I think I've heard two gunshots.  Could that be?  It's very disconcerting.
(OOOhhhhh, that could be the beginning of a good story......)

And as a little aside, since we're just egg-watching....  I told my brother about this site.  He said there was a similar site down in Costa Rica for one of their most colorful birds, I forget its name.  Anyway, two chicks hatched and were doing well, lots of people were watching their progress.  Then one day, a weasel climbed up into the nest and got them both - and the viewers saw that too. Cry
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« Reply #96 on: March 18, 2010, 05:40:46 PM »

Deb, I think texting would be the best for me, as DH thinks I'm a little wacky for following the eagles so much. Roll Eyes

I've been watching now for about 1/2 hr, and I swear I think I've heard two gunshots.  Could that be?  It's very disconcerting.
(OOOhhhhh, that could be the beginning of a good story......)

I too thought I heard a gunshot earlier this evening.  I also watched one of the eagles consume a very large meal.  I have no idea whether it was a fish or a mammal of some sort.  I heard a squawk and by the time I was able to get to the computer, it was impossible to tell what was being eaten.  Both eagles were still on the nest when I first started watching, but one flew away shortly.  Once it was consumed, that eagle flew away from the nest.  It wasn't long before one of them was back, but I don't know if it was the same one or not.  I'd have loved to see the one arrive with the food.  I still haven't been looking at the right time to see that.
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« Reply #97 on: March 18, 2010, 05:49:28 PM »

Loonlover,
I wish I had seen them eat that meal.  I'm so bad about thinking that as soon as I turn away, something is going to happen......
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« Reply #98 on: March 18, 2010, 05:53:03 PM »

My sound has not been working that well today, but I have heard shots in the background once before.
Honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about it.  People are always shooting guns. 
I'm putting your cell numbers into my phone. 
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« Reply #99 on: March 19, 2010, 06:49:39 AM »

2 more days!  I wonder if the eagles are feeling anxious?
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