The afore mentioned's article in this months Fishing News is one of the best I've read. Another grumpy old man. Excellent.
Re: Sam Mossman
Posted by Hangler on 14/2/2015, 11:26 am, in reply to "Sam Mossman"
Grumpy old man: A fish story.
From the Jerusalem Post.
Last summer, reputable news outlets were reporting that a fisherman dragging his nets in Øresund Sound between Denmark and Sweden had snagged a pacu, a large cousin to the piranha.
Forget that the fish had turned up in Scandinavian waters, thousands of nautical miles north of its decidedly less chilly Amazonian habitat. What really hooked these news outlets was word of the pacu’s favored dish.
“If they bite, they can bite hard...especially when they bite you where you really don’t want to be bitten,” one Peter Resk Møller, of Denmark’s Museum of Natural History, was quoted as saying.
Another expert from the museum, Henrik Carl, tied up the loose ends.
“There have been incidents in other countries, such as Papua New Guinea, where some men have had their testicles bitten off,” he said. “[The pacu] bite because they’re hungry, and testicles sit nicely in their mouth.”
Immediately, Nordic men were urged to keep their trunks on when swimming in the region’s bracing waters – until, that is, the gentlemen from the Danish museum admitted they had been stretching their fish story a bit, though all in good, clean fun.
“All we said last week (with a smile) was that male swimmers should keep their pants on in case there are more pacus out there in our cold Baltic waters.
***** If I got nipped on the nadgers I think I could turn decidedly grumpy also.
Re: Sam Mossman
Posted by GaryK on 14/2/2015, 9:41 pm, in reply to "Re: Sam Mossman"
Do you have TV hangler? The program River Monsters also talks of the Pacu's ability to take a man by the short and culies. There are substantiated examples of this. They can stay in the Amazon as far as I am concerned. The snapper don't know where the car park is! Sometimes it is better to travel than to arrive.
Re: Sam Mossman
Posted by Rex HB on 15/2/2015, 9:27 am, in reply to "Re: Sam Mossman"
Wasn't he the guy who did the program on New Zealands man eating eels as well. Fishing programs and fishing magazines, always a beat up somewhere.
Re: Sam Mossman
Posted by Hangler on 15/2/2015, 10:23 am, in reply to "Re: Sam Mossman"
That's the man. He should have been introduced to Bill Kerrison, the guy who worked tirelessly for the Kokapu Trust in the Bay of Plenty. He has a picture of an eel (tuna), from memory 64lbs, but when they are that large they are very docile. I had a copy of that picture but I'm damned if I can find it.
Rex, I tried to Google the article you mentioned but I don't think it has been reproduced on the Internet as yet. However, I did find the article I have reproduced from a Jerusalem publication. I thought it had a certain ironic humour and may have brought a lighter moment to this site.
Yes Gary, I have a television. No Gary, I don't watch it. I have a very large collection of DVD's and that is what the tele is for.
on 14/2/2015, 5:30 am