Fishing in the back yard

[Raider Bill]

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/06/04/Southpinellas/Bull_shark_caught_off.shtml

[scgargoyle]

Biggest thing I could catch in my backyard would be a gator.... maybe it's time to move AWAY from the water!

[LeeB]

BAck in the days when we could still fish off the rig, I landed one that measured 10'6". I didn't have him too much though. I hooked him twice before getting him on the third hook. First two times were on a rod and reel w/ 100lb test. It broke the first hook off, snapped the line on the second. The third time I hooked it was with a jimmy rigged and line made from a life raft davit. When it hit the line that time I couldn't hold the handle so I let go before I lsot an arm. The crank was spinning like a propeller. It peeled off about 200ft of line and then stopped dead. I figured it had chewed through as I had no leader, just rope. When I started to crank in the line it was like pulling a truck through sand. When I got it up to surface i found that it had thrown a half hitch around it's tail. It took six men to pull it up. I figured a 100lbs per man.

[DWM II]

WHOA MOMMA, I'M NOT SWIMMING IN THE BACK YARD!!