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KamaAina

(78,249 posts)
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 01:27 PM Aug 2014

Sewer fishing: Can fishing get any crazier?

Yes, you read that correctly.

http://www.grindtv.com/outdoor/outposts/post/sewer-fishing-can-fishing-get-crazier/

A teenager in Katy, Texas, has one of the most unique—and oddest—fishing holes you’ll ever see and it’s located just off the sidewalk near his house. Kyle Naegeli, 16, goes sewer fishing through the holes of the storm drain manhole cover. Certainly it’s the craziest-type fishing we’ve ever encountered.

Naegeli baits a hook, puts it through a hole in the manhole cover, and drops it down into the water of the storm sewer below. A cork attached to the line above prevents losing the line. Then he waits....

“I had always known there was water from having a ball or Frisbee accidently thrown in,” Naegeli told GrindTV Outdoor. “I rigged up a small hook and a worm, and on the first drop I had a small bluegill on. After I showed the fish to my dad he gave me the $5, and I knew that wasn’t the last sewer fish I was gonna catch.”...

By the way, he doesn’t eat any of the fish he catches. He releases them back into the storm drain.


(big sigh of relief)

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Sewer fishing: Can fishing get any crazier? (Original Post) KamaAina Aug 2014 OP
He better hope he doesn't hook a gator. hifiguy Aug 2014 #1
Brown trout ? panader0 Aug 2014 #2
Do the fish have three eyes? DinahMoeHum Aug 2014 #3
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