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| The “muskies eating fur and feathers“ reminded me of a strange thing I saw a few years back. I saw an eagle in trouble on LOTW. Apparently it couldn’t fly for some reason and was using it’s wings to swim. We “guided” it to shore and it gave us a look and a chirp and it hopped into the forest never to be seen again. Not sure if he was saying thanks or what. LOL. What is the strangest thing you have seen while out on the water?
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| A pelican sitting on a rock that had its neck skinned somehow. Spot is now called the bloody pelican...we are very creative! |
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| We saw a Juvenile Eagle sitting on the same rock up on Eagle for about three days. Parents were nowhere in sight. We figured it must have been injured or abandoned. When it was still there on the third day, Mike says:
"Well, let's go get it. There's a lady in town that rehabilitates injured wildlife..."
ME: "f-you. You kiddin'?"
MIKE: "No. But we can't just leave it. So here's what we do. I'll get close, I'll throw my coat over it, and then you grab it!"
ME: "Really? All right, let's go."
MIKE: "They usually calm down once you cover their eyes. Whatever you do, don't let go!"
ME: "f---! Okay..."
As we're getting closer and this Eagle is staring at us, I'm thinking "This is either going to be one of the coolest things I have ever done, or one of the STUPIDEST things I have ever done. Man, they look a lot bigger from 10 feet away. I have to ride 20 miles back to camp with a death grip on that thing!" I bet those talons will hurt 'ya. It's probably gonna $^%& all over me!!"
(any of you who have ever handled and sort of wild animal know what I am talking about - it's the first thing they do when you pick them up!)
So we get right up to it, and it's looking at me like it wants to rip my eyes out... Mike takes his coat off, I'm standing there ready to pounce, or scream like a girl... Just as mike gets close enough to throw his coat, the Eagle flies off. I'm glad it wasn't injured. But at that point I was actually kind of sorry to see it fly off. How many times in life do you get to rescue an Eagle? |
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Location: Ogden, UTAH 10 minutes from pineview reservoir | I was fishing an 8" swimjig and was working it back to the boat and about 4ft from boatside I seen a follower, well i got the fish to slash at the bait and out of nowhere a second tiger came up from under the boat and took a swipe at it. Next cast landed a 39". It was cool seeing 2 tigers hunting together. Pulled 4 fish off the same ledge and had few more hook ups. They were stacked on the bait fish. I have seen smallies chase baits together but not tigers |
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Location: Ogden, UTAH 10 minutes from pineview reservoir | Also seen a wounded canadian goose that could not fly, well we decided we were gonna try and help it so i motored up to it from 25 yards away and out of nowwhere the bird disappeared , we looked all around and never could find it. Either drowned or was lunch. It was white capping and the goose had a big gash and a broken wing so who knows what happened. My stories are lame compared to the eagle stories!! |
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | esoxaddict - 5/5/2012 10:34 AM
We saw a Juvenile Eagle sitting on the same rock up on Eagle for about three days. Parents were nowhere in sight. We figured it must have been injured or abandoned. When it was still there on the third day, Mike says:
"Well, let's go get it. There's a lady in town that rehabilitates injured wildlife..."
ME: "f-you. You kiddin'?"
MIKE: "No. But we can't just leave it. So here's what we do. I'll get close, I'll throw my coat over it, and then you grab it!"
ME: "Really? All right, let's go."
MIKE: "They usually calm down once you cover their eyes. Whatever you do, don't let go!"
ME: "f---! Okay..."
As we're getting closer and this Eagle is staring at us, I'm thinking "This is either going to be one of the coolest things I have ever done, or one of the STUPIDEST things I have ever done. Man, they look a lot bigger from 10 feet away. I have to ride 20 miles back to camp with a death grip on that thing!" I bet those talons will hurt 'ya. It's probably gonna $^%& all over me!!"
(any of you who have ever handled and sort of wild animal know what I am talking about - it's the first thing they do when you pick them up!)
So we get right up to it, and it's looking at me like it wants to rip my eyes out... Mike takes his coat off, I'm standing there ready to pounce, or scream like a girl... Just as mike gets close enough to throw his coat, the Eagle flies off. I'm glad it wasn't injured. But at that point I was actually kind of sorry to see it fly off. How many times in life do you get to rescue an Eagle?
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| re: tossing a coat over an eagle. Imagine finding one caught in a foothold trap and you have to figure out how to release the thing. Owls will calm down tossing a blanket over them when they are in a trap. Eagles? Nope.
Last summer I saw a male swan chase a jetskier off of a lake and then as he was heading in to the boat launch it wouldn't let him in. It wasn't really strange...it was f*%$#ing awesome. The guy asked me for help suggesting I could head into the launch and he would tuck right in behind me because the swan didn't mess with bigger boats. I declined and said; "no, I trained him to harass jetskiers. I don't want to send him the wrong message by helping you out." |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | esoxaddict - 5/5/2012 10:34 AM
We saw a Juvenile Eagle sitting on the same rock up on Eagle for about three days. Parents were nowhere in sight. We figured it must have been injured or abandoned. When it was still there on the third day, Mike says:
"Well, let's go get it. There's a lady in town that rehabilitates injured wildlife..."
ME: "f-you. You kiddin'?"
MIKE: "No. But we can't just leave it. So here's what we do. I'll get close, I'll throw my coat over it, and then you grab it!"
ME: "Really? All right, let's go."
MIKE: "They usually calm down once you cover their eyes. Whatever you do, don't let go!"
ME: "f---! Okay..."
As we're getting closer and this Eagle is staring at us, I'm thinking "This is either going to be one of the coolest things I have ever done, or one of the STUPIDEST things I have ever done. Man, they look a lot bigger from 10 feet away. I have to ride 20 miles back to camp with a death grip on that thing!" I bet those talons will hurt 'ya. It's probably gonna $^%& all over me!!"
(any of you who have ever handled and sort of wild animal know what I am talking about - it's the first thing they do when you pick them up!)
So we get right up to it, and it's looking at me like it wants to rip my eyes out... Mike takes his coat off, I'm standing there ready to pounce, or scream like a girl... Just as mike gets close enough to throw his coat, the Eagle flies off. I'm glad it wasn't injured. But at that point I was actually kind of sorry to see it fly off. How many times in life do you get to rescue an Eagle?
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| jonnysled - 5/5/2012 12:47 PM
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likely the most words Mikey has said in a single day :0)
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Location: Chaska MN. | Not on the water but next to it , We were camping up on Vermilion over Memorial day 5-6 years ago and the wind was blowing between 30-40 mph. Me and my son were sitting in camp with my two dogs both English setters when I looked up to see an eagle HIT a tree and come tumbling down right in my campsite. Well as you can imagine it was pandemonium with the two setters as the eagle landed between a group of trees got up and began running to a clearing that was a road with my dogs hot on its tail, I took off after the dogs fearing the worst and when I got to the clearing the first thing I saw was a ton of cotton from the trees in the air and my first thought was OH MY GOD the dogs got the bird but then I realized it was just cotton and that the eagle had gotten away OK
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| Ask Mike about his golf game and you might get a sentence or two out of him...
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Location: WI | Last Oct while trolling I got a rip, stood up and grabbed the rod and saw a 40-42" swim under the boat. i thought "sweet, I got a decent one". Then I reeled in a 32". What?!!! How often do you see random fish swimming next to the boat while trolling? |
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| Today my 11 yr old son and I were fishing and noticed this smell of rotted meat and go to shore and see a big rotten 8 pt buck. A few years back I was fishing memorial day weekend in a remote UP lake and noticed something floating in the lake and I went over to check it out and find a mostly rotted young bull moose.
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| Another one. Found these two flopping around on the surface on Lac Seul. Some jaw spreaders and a push of the thumb on the "nose" on the one pike and they were off to live another day.
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| It's always amazing what we see on the water. The craziest thing I ever seen was pre-fishing for a 2008 pmtt event on Lake Shelbyville. We got out early and the lake was foggy. That early morning light fog that makes everything kinda calm and spooky. We came out of a cove and spotted a deer near the shore in about a foot of water below a clay bank. As we got closer we could see the entire hind quarter was bright red. We thought (from about a 1/2 mile away) that she was giving birth or having trouble birthing. We hurried over with a Keyes Outdoors camera man rolling. As we got closer we could see the marks where she had fallen down the clay bank. She just stood there with her head down and laboring to breathe. When we were close enough we could see her entire hind 1/4 was skinned with the hide hanging off! As we filmed the erie scene and wondered what had happened we started the hear sounds from the trees atop the clay bank. Short yips and even barks. We never saw the coyotes but they were staying close to claim their kill. I swear that deer looked at us like.."yeah, I'm totally screwed" then put her head back down. Keyes has like 5 minutes of that footage. He's got some amazing stuff that isn't quite "TV worthy!" Where's that DVD!
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Location: Victoria,MN | On Sabaskong 4 years ago my buddy has a 48-49" following his bucktail. This fish was hot on it on the figure eight. I was standing motionless waiting to get the net, watching the action unfold as he turned the big girl the second time around. The water exploded as he laid back on the hookset. I grabbed the net and scooped up a 32" pike that came up and robbed the bucktail. What a heartbreaker!! |
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| Cool stories.
The strangest thing I ever saw was a great big snake swimming accross a small UP lake. It wouldn't have been strange but the snake was swimming with 10-15" of its head and "neck" straight up and out of the water. Like a cobra, sorta, but swimming. This was one big nice try snake.
Another coolio was having loons flash the boat, swimming at then away from the boat, all underwater. Turned out we were near the nest. I never would have believed how fast they can swim underwater until I saw it. |
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Location: north metro, MN | that eagle on the top post may have had a fish in its grasp! My uncle has seen it twice this year crappie fishing. both times the eagle grabbed a northern and used its wings to swim to shore to get a better grip on the fish and then took off with it... The craziest thing I have ever seen was a muskie swimming like a dolphin. If both me and my boat partner would have not seen it I would not even have bothered telling anyone including him what I had seen because it was so bizarre. I have never seen a fish swimming so fast and just like that "poof" the fish jumped out of the water sailing maybe a foot in the air and as soon as it touched back down into the water "poof" it took off again. It did that three times and it happened so fast. the fish was out the back of the boat and when my fishing partner turned toward me and saw that I was looking back at him he knew I must have seen it ( I was on the front deck looking back at him and the muskie did its dolphin jumps right in line with where I was looking) He just looked at me for a second and said, "did you see that s**t!?" |
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Location: Cottage Grove, WI | We had a Water Spout form and cut across in from of us while entering a small lake on the Chippewa River. It sounded like a freaking freight train and just leveled everything it touched. We were in canoes and it happened about 100 yds in from of us. I swear we were going to die but the winds never got to us, and this all happened on a sunny day with a few clouds. Never ever have seen anything like that again. |
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| The strangeest I've seen?? Ball lightning. This was during a wild raging thunderstorm. Opening the front door to watch the action outside under our covered porch, I was greeted by a floating, hissing, smelly, perfectly round, glowing sphere right in front of my face. The object was the size of a large beach ball and was so close to me that my first thought was to reach out and touch it. The ball lightning floated around the front porch appearing neutrally bouyant, gently bumping around the walls and ceiling, then disappeared right before my eyes in a large bang, with some kind of matter or plasma that fell to the ground and disappearing upon hitting the floor. There was a strong odor that accompanied this thing, which I believe today was probably the smell of nitrogen. I was 16 at the time and never told anyone because I thought I was 'seeing things'. Not until I was about 40 years old and came across a science article describing the phenomena called ball lighting did I realize that is what was on the porch with me that day decades earlier. Thank God I didn't touch it, as was my first inclination!
The strangest thing I've seen fishing was on a trip to N. Wisconsin with a group of guys. A couple of the guys in our group came back to dinner excitedely telling a story about how they were anchored while fishing for walleye near an old cabin in a remote area the lake when an attractive 20-something woman came down to the dock with her dog and proceeded to bathe in the lake - au naturale. We didn't believe them, but decided to make a point to be anchored in front of the dock the next day at the same time to see if lightning might strike twice. Our buddies who had originally seen the woman were there, too. To our great surprise, the woman appeared and the events unfolded exactly as had been described to us the day before. We were shocked to say the least. On the third day (our last of the trip), our entire group consisting of three boats and six guys were anchored quite near the woman's dock at exactly 5 p.m. On que, she and her dog showed up and did her thing as if we weren't even there.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Yep, the naked bather thing happened in front of Sue and I, but it was a guy in his sixties. Keith and I rescued a red fox that was hooked to a cormorant that got tangled in a walleye two hook spinner rig. That fox didn't get it that we were trying to help. Saw two timber wolves swimming around aimlessly in a bay; when they spotted us they took off for the shore. They appeared to be enjoying a swim. All of this on Wabigoon.
Then there's Crazy Old Man Bay...
I've seen a couple waterspouts. One was on a tiny lake in Rhinelander, and it happened on a clear, warm, sunny day. Thing ripped up the shoreline and threw leaves, mud and lillypads everywhere, Beav and I sat there amazed while it went by us no more than 100 feet away. It lasted probably 5 minutes. |
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| I've seen the eagle swimming thing several times. In all instances, it was because the eagle had tried to catch a fish that ended up being too large for it to lift out of the water. The largest fish I ever saw an eagle catch was a low 40's musky that it 'swam' to shore and proceeded to eat.
While ice fishing, we have taken snake northerns and purposely tossed them maybe 50 feet away from us on the ice and had eagles come down and land on the ice to get them.
I've also seen muskies come right up next to the boat and grab small perch that were deeply hooked and tossed back that were struggling on the surface. |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | while pre-fishing at Eagle River a number of yrs. ago, on a very Hot day, my partner and I saw a guy about 60yrs old and 280lbs cleaning his deck,................While wearing ONLY a Thong !!
I still have nightmares sometimes, and will not fish anywhere near that area ever again.......Talk about the hebejebes Man that just wasn't right. |
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| Rare giant pelican that has been spotted from time to time in Western PA. Looks twice the size of an eagle. It was perched in a tree on the southern shore of Lake Wilhelm, Mercer County, PA. It took off and flew to the southwest. I couldn't believe what I was seeing:"Oh my G--." Didn't know what it was at the time. Later read about this bird; and made the mental connection. Might be the origin of the ancient Indian legend of the Thunderbird. |
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Had a big owl chasing a low rider to the boat after dark. I yelled out at it before it could grab it luckily. That was pretty cool. |
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | Water spout gave us a glancing blow, no pun inte.... yeah ok pun was intended, on shelbyville. Had it have been a direct hit we surely would have capsized. We were half way tipped over there as it was and gear was tossed everywhere.
Nude bathers, two of them, 20 somethings females on Dryberry, the boys they were with were out fishing according to them (hmmmm???)
Three eagles fighting each other for one smallie on a sept trip on Tomahawk. VERY cool, (not to diminish the aforementioned females on dryberry). one came down and snatched up the bass when it was attacked in mid air by number two in a mid air tug of war. Bass ended up plunging from about 100'. #3 tried to steal the meal when engaged by # 1, those two were off when #3 tries the sneak. Mid air battles. Dive bombing for fish a cool show that lasted for some 15-20 minutes. I dont think we made a single cast during the whole show.
Ball lightning? Ive seen that too. Oddly enough it has always been at Pink Floyd concerts. an amazing phenomenon. Going to Wrigley Field in just about a month now to see Roger Waters perform "The Wall" , I wonder if ill see it again????
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Location: Home of the 2016 World Series Champion Cubs | No, wait a minute, maybe those were flying pigs. |
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Location: Cedarburg, Wisconsin | My friend and I were fishing on High Falls in N. Wis. when we saw something that didn't look right. As we were headed towards the dam fishing, we figured we'd see it up closer eventually and we did. The one big blob on the horizon turned out to be a young eagle in the top of a tree. It was flapping it's wings once in a while kind of hopping in place looking down. There below it was something different. It made a lot of motions I'd never seen before and had the eagle completely intrigued. Got closer and it turned out to be a crow! It was tangled in some kind of line hanging upside down frantically trying to right itself. It would swing like a pendulum, then flap almost vertical only to fall back again. Wanted to help it but it was about 40 feet up in a tree that grew below the dam, so it fooled us, looking like it was just above our eye level. Very strange. We kept on fishing, the eagle kept on watching and the crow kept on flapping, end of story. |
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Location: SE Wisconsin | Ben Olsen - 5/5/2012 8:59 PM He's got some amazing stuff that isn't quite "TV worthy!" Where's that DVD! Ben, push him for this! I'd pre-order. |
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Location: Seymour, WI | Had a loon go around in the figure for several turns, thought it was a really fat musky at first.
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Location: oswego, il | My partner has a fish follow his heckhound for quite a distance just under the surface over deep water and t-boned it 10 feet from the boat. That blind in one eye catfish really wanted that bait!
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| I've had a musky in the 36" - 37" range do this to me...
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Location: Land of the Musky | By far it was Octomom on lake Minnetonka holding a 54" last summer. Creepy sight!
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| flat calm saturday morning on shawano lake find a bear swimming 1/4 mile
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2 women going at it on a jetski on minocqua, buddy n i didnt fish
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| A couple years ago my wife and I were paddling in our canoe and saw a mallard hen flapping its wings and making a lot of noise, staying in one spot. We paddled across the lake and saw the source of her concern. One of her half grown ducklings had gotten a hook through its bill and was attached to a branch hanging over the water. Some crappie fisherman had overcooked a cast and broke off his hook, sinker and bobber in the tree, with a minnow still on the hook. It was just low enough to the water for the duck to grab and apparently the young ones have a softer bill. We paddled up to it and the hen herded the rest away from there. I unhooked the young one and it scurried after mom. Looking around, there were two other lines with minnows broken off along the same shore and hanging in branches. I think someone was fishing spawning crappies in shallow water and didn't want to spook them by coming in to get their lines unhooked. I pulled them off the branches and tossed them in the canoe. |
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Location: McFarland | Kind of an odd one for me last night. I'm assuming we didn't even know the little walleye was on because it was behind a planer board and the pike tried eating the walleye and got the other hook on the bait...pretty funny though when I reeled the pike in and saw the walleye dangling there.
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Location: St. Louis, MO., Marco Is., FL, Nestor Falls, ON | In 2009 my son and I were fishing on Kakagi (Crow) Lake outside Nestor Falls, ON. We were over by Castle Rock when we saw a mother mink and her baby swimming across the cove. The baby got confused and veered off from the mom. He started to get tired and turned to our boat, crying the whole time. Then he tried to climb into our boat by getting up on the motor. The mom was calling and looking all over for her baby, finally spotted it by our boat and swam over. She grabbed the baby by the scruff of the neck and then swam to shore dragging the baby. The fun thing is we got it all on the camera. It was fun to watch. By the way, eagles landing in the water while grabbing fish is common. They sink their talons into the fish and if it's too big to get airborne, they will swim to shore with their wings used like oars. Have seen it a few times. They always seem to make it, so they must be pretty good swimmers. |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | So we're making sandwiches and having an adult beverage the night of the SalmonFIRST (One and only) Outing out of Racine Harbor at maybe 2AM. Just hanging out, boats tied up for a break at the harbor. An eldery lady walks up in her nightgown only, asks us which way to Milwaukee. We point the way and off she goes... |
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| Trolling out on Leech Lake, and just going along the shore about 80 yards off shore with a friend and his daughter, and my son. I catch a small Northern and bring it into the boat. As I lift it out of the water a Lab comes swimming alongside the boat. My friend and I are telling the dog to go away, and the kids are doing the "Here boy" thing. The dog didn't know what to do. We lead it to shore, and then got out of there once the dog went ashore. |
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Location: Mt. Zion, IL | On Shelbyville in 1996 dad and I were at Dam West launch area we saw an intoxicated couple in a 34' Scarab struggling to get the trailer on the ramp. When the wife finally got the trailer on the ramp straight and in the lane, the husband yells "am I lined up". He was clearly not lined up and drove his boat straight onto the ramp, completely missing the trailer. The entire launch area was closed then until the road commissioner brought an end-loader to the ramp to lift the bow and push the boat back down the ramp. They were both arrested on site. |
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Location: Racine, Wi | Slamr - 5/8/2012 2:11 PM
So we're making sandwiches and having an adult beverage the night of the SalmonFIRST (One and only) Outing out of Racine Harbor at maybe 2AM. Just hanging out, boats tied up for a break at the harbor. An eldery lady walks up in her nightgown only, asks us which way to Milwaukee. We point the way and off she goes...
Excepte she goes in the opposite direction that we pointed her. (Yes, we were nice and called the cops as it didn't seem right that an older lady was walking around at 2am in a nightgown. She got some public transportation to wherever the paddy wagon was going that night).
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| One time fishing in Philadelphia in the river from shore a man was walking around yelling some things in arabic. Didn't think much of it because I was getting used to seeing unusual things. Not until he decided to take off every stitch of clothing and pace up and down the path yelling. Gave some teenagers a scare as he was directly behind them. Not only that but a nice restaurant overlooks the shore close by, Im sure some people got a disturbing view while they ate. I didn't stay to find out what the guy was willing to do next. |
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Location: Lake Country, Wisconsin | I'd have to go with this one.....Walleye fishing in the middle of Eagle Lake near Dead Man's reef a few years back I suddenly heard my dad cry out in some horrified LOUD shriek like a little school girl....I look back to see a snake crawling up his lap. In one scared swoop he grabbed it and launched it about 30 yards in horror. No idea how it got there or how long it was in the boat but needless to say I probably would have reacted the same way |
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| Was in the process of releasing a 38" musk. Just got the fish out of my hand as it started tailing on the surface. It literally was 2 ft out of my hand and I was still bent over the boat when all of a sudden I heard a loud whooshing noise right over my head. I just see an flash of an object come out of the cornor of my eye diving right past me. It was an eagle swooping down to grab the musky i literally just let out of my hand. The eagle hit the water since the fish must have been a little bigger than it expected. I was sitting on the water like a seagul thrashing around. I quickly grabbed my rod and started hitting the eagle until it got off the water and flew away without the musky. Not sure if the eagle got the musky with its tallons or not but I was going to make sure he wasn't going to get a free meal. Never saw the musky after that. The eagle flew away to a nearby pine tree along with several other eagles. He must have sat there and watched us net and take pictures of the fish and had great timing on the release with its attack. If I had stood up right when that eagle came over my head i would have been smoked right in the back.
One of the funniest things that I have ever seen is that we were casting and my buddy made a high arching cast. Not really paying attention as the line was falling a blue heron came out of nowhere and flew right into the line. The bait had already hit the water so when the heron hit the line it had pretty good resistance. The heron ended up doing a complete back flip and landed upside down in the water. The heron laid on the water upside down flailing around. I started laughing so hard I couldn't breathe for multiple seconds. I tried composing myself to help the heron out but it was so hard to stop laughing. Finally he righted himself and flew away as i started heading towards him to help him out.
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Grabbed flashlights and chased it into the bushes and had it cornered. Our intent was to see if we could untangle it.
Come to find out, it had a leghold trap around its front leg and the tie down must have pulled free, so what we saw as barbed wire was the chain and some trapper's wire.
Thinking quickly as to how we would get this trap off without getting shredded by this pithed-off coon, I remembered I'd been camping the previous weekend and had some nice firewood chunks of split white oak in the trunk of my '86 Tempo. Sweet ride, eh?
Nope, didn't clunk 'em. I retrieved a chunk of wood, and sorta all in one motion, (sorta kinda quickly gently) laied the chunk of wood across the coon's neck/shoulder area and stood on the piece of wood with my right foot to pin the critter down. The thing was amazingly docile. Not sure why.
Anyway, with the coon scampering off into the woods sans trap, we inspected the trap. The tag affixed to the trap revealed that the local trapper was indeed.....a local trapper and fur buyer, who raised sweet corn. We were about 200 yards from the guy's house. I think the trap still hangs from a nail up in the floor joists of my mom's basement, trap ID tag and everything. |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wisconsin | How about being lost in the BWCA at Midnight looking for a camp fire so you can find out where you are and where your camp is. You spot a campfire ahead and there are two guys by the fire, an A-frame tent, one guy holding a lantern and waving you into camp. Sparks from the fire rising up through the pines.....
Then right before your eyes as you get close.....the men, tent, fire, everything just disappears!!! Nothing but darkness and shoreline so thick that you could not even pitch a tent. There one second then gone the next!
Before you call me crazy you can also call the other 3 people in the boat crazy, we all witnessed the same thing.
We did find our way back that night and rolled into camp about 2am. I tried to sleep but the strange whisperings and sounds like someone was walking around the tent outside, made it very difficult. Hell no I didn’t go out and check to see what it was!
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | MuskyTime - 5/11/2012 12:31 PM
How about being lost in the BWCA at Midnight looking for a camp fire so you can find out where you are and where your camp is. You spot a campfire ahead and there are two guys by the fire, an A-frame tent, one guy holding a lantern and waving you into camp. Sparks from the fire rising up through the pines.....
Then right before your eyes as you get close.....the men, tent, fire, everything just disappears!!! Nothing but darkness and shoreline so thick that you could not even pitch a tent. There one second then gone the next!
Before you call me crazy you can also call the other 3 people in the boat crazy, we all witnessed the same thing.
We did find our way back that night and rolled into camp about 2am. I tried to sleep but the strange whisperings and sounds like someone was walking around the tent outside, made it very difficult. Hell no I didn’t go out and check to see what it was!
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| Gotta say the twighlight zone experience by MuskyTime trumps all. That is exceptional. |
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| MuskyTime wins for wilderness story, but Slamr and Tuffy1 win for urban story. Good stuff guys. My favorite eery night fishing story is wading for night time eyes on a large lake with a pile of cabins/homes and the power went out..... Suddenly got very dark when however many 100 cabins went dark. Long before my musky fishing days.
Wandering through the Minnetonka Regional Park in the dark seems to involve critters showing up and startling me on a regular basis. |
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| I've got a couple.
In the "neat" category I once watched a family of snakes try to swim from a point to an island. First four snakes made it, the fifth got nailed by a musky. Awesome to watch.
That same point is now "Naked Chick Point" in my boat. While fishing with my buddies a cute girl came out of the woods, stripped down and jumped into the lake, right in front of us. AWESOME! I honestly can't remember how the fishing was that day, but oh, do I remember her! 
I once had a "pack" of muskies follow in my Suick on Ballard lake. 4 muskies behind one bait. None hit, but it was totally cool.
In the WTF category, my buddy caught a 28 inch musky and we released it. I had a hit on the very next cast. Fish didn't fight much at all. Measured 28 inches. Same musky was boated on back to back casts.
Still in the WTF category, I was north last week and sitting out on the porch. Dad looked up in the sky and started freaking out. Up there were 6 large, but immature eagles circling the house just above the tree line. I've seen up to 4 eagles in relative close proximity, but these were all right next to eachother. A little unnerving. We got the dogs back into the house pronto.
Finally my very strange encounter. I was taking some guys out fishing back in the early 90's on Lac Vieux Desert. We launched and were fishing a spot at around 5:00-5:30 AM. The mist was just kind of releasing from the lake on that morning. All three of us looked across the lake and saw what looked like hundreds of canoes about a quarter mile from us. The boat got really, really quiet and we didn't hear anything. After about five unnerving minutes, the mist had lifted completely off of the lake and we couldn't see any boats, or canoes on the lake. Very, very strange. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | Back about six years ago, I was fishing Minnetonka on a Saturday evening when a boat full of young women pull up in front of my boat. I thought they were going to ask me something, but instead they all took their bikini tops off and wiggled their bodies. They then drove away laughing and gave some guy with his teenage son a show too. Seemed they may have been drinking rather heavily.
For those who know the lake, it was near Big Island. I have fished that spot for years since and have never saw that again. Caught a few fish there though.....
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Location: Chisholm, MN | Fishing off my dock as a kid, my brother and I witnessed a very large spider about 2 inches long grab a 2 inch bass out of the water from the side of the dock. I beat the spider to death with a stick and the little minnow was free! Nobody believes us but it happened. |
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Location: Plymouth IA | Ranger - 5/14/2012 9:33 PM
Gotta say the twighlight zone experience by MuskyTime trumps all. That is exceptional.
I agree and have a belief about what they saw.
Memegwesi the Anishinaabe little people or spirit people of mischief. Must have taken a picture or picked up a stone in the wrong place without leaving something in return or they were just out for fun. I grew up on the Rez, so yes i have some strange beliefs. Cool post, the strangest thing i see is the boat landing here at Clear Lake any given Weekend |
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Could be the reason for another crazy story I have on LOTW. Long story short my boat got shoved sideways by an Indian warrior spirit and almost knocked me and my boat partner in the drink. No current, no wind, in 10fow. I now leave cigars (tobacco) and granola bars (dried fruit) as an offering on the island where it happened, like I said…long story.
Get a few beers in me and I will tell you the full story.
Be careful when fishing around Cushing Island!
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| We've come around the circle! When I hit the water I never leave the landing without flipping a silver coin into the water; like flip it high in the air and I say "To the Lady of the Lake." and then it hits the water.
There's a particular boulder in one of the Groveland Mine Ponds where I always flipped the coins. Some day some snorkler will find about $100 in quarters, unless the Lady of the Lake decides otherwise. |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I was fishing on Pelican with this guy and all of a sudden the sky to the NW went sorta green. I've seen that, and told Brad we had to bail, 'specially since he was for sure the tallest thing on the water. Next cast, my line started floating off into space, and I opened the bail on the Creature reel, and let it go...a long way up. The tip tops of our muskie rods were buzzing like a bilge pump.
I fired up the Esox and headed into the landing. We got there ahead of the huge winds, but not the lightning. A bolt hit the lot dead between us, knocking me down. Missed Brad altogether, and then...a BIG ball of lightning went zinging across the blacktop off into the woods with a very loud bang.
The brightest light I have ever seen. And no one hurt.
We went back out after the storm.
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Location: Medford, WI | Haha I love it..."We went back out after the storm."... |
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Location: Rhinelander | vegas492 - 5/15/2012 10:43 AM
Finally my very strange encounter. I was taking some guys out fishing back in the early 90's on Lac Vieux Desert. We launched and were fishing a spot at around 5:00-5:30 AM. The mist was just kind of releasing from the lake on that morning. All three of us looked across the lake and saw what looked like hundreds of canoes about a quarter mile from us. The boat got really, really quiet and we didn't hear anything. After about five unnerving minutes, the mist had lifted completely off of the lake and we couldn't see any boats, or canoes on the lake. Very, very strange.
I have heard of others seeing the same thing on LVD.......I also believe a book has some reporting regarding this same topic.
I have never read the book or experianced the canoes paddling across LVD but more than a few folks claim to have witnesed this strange sighting. |
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Location: Medford, WI | http://www.wisconsinosity.com/Vilas/vilas.htm#sighting14 |
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Location: Rhinelander | I've heard the story more than once.....Jake, maybe you were one of the guys who told me the story?
I'm getting old, my memory is going. lol |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wisconsin | I once watched a documentary about how on some days people on the Ohio side of Lake Erie (Cleveland) can see cars, people walking, buildings and such from the other side of the lake (Canada). Only it's as if what they are seeing is just a few hundred yards off shore. I think the distance is like 90 miles? For several years this was never explained but recently they determined that on certain days there is an atmospheric anomaly that acts as a magnifying glass. Something to that extent. So I have always wondered if what I was seeing that night in the BWCA was something similar or in fact a couple ghost. I know I have read many similar stories like mine that people canoeing the BWCA have been witness too.
I have lots of cool ghost stories….I certainly don’t go looking for that crap it just happens to me for some reason?
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Location: Lake "y" cause lake"x" got over fished | "I have lots of cool ghost stories"... Quote by "MuskyTime"
I am a believer in the Paranormal, and have had quite a few experiences myself. Consider your self lucky to have seen or experienced those things... Most people don't get that lucky... |
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| sworrall - 5/6/2012 9:04 AM
Yep, the naked bather thing happened in front of Sue and I, but it was a guy in his sixties.
LMAO!! That is too funny!! That sucks, but it's funny! |
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| "I have heard of others seeing the same thing on LVD.......I also believe a book has some reporting regarding this same topic.
I have never read the book or experianced the canoes paddling across LVD but more than a few folks claim to have witnesed this strange sighting."
No kidding? Boy, that makes me feel better. We were all more than a little freaked out over what we saw. We talked about it and thought it could have been our eyes playing tricks on us, but the images were too vivid to really think the mist was messing with our vision.
Nice to at least know that other people have seen it too. I'll check out the link and thank you to the poster!
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Location: Rhinelander | I'm interested ....... read the book and let us know if it seems to be the same images you witnessed.
I heard the "stories" about the canoes years ago......early to mid 90's was the 1st time I was told the story.
If my memory is correct the story was a band of indian braves that were preparing for battle and never made it across the lake.....they were assumed drowned.
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| This is my favourite thread ever.
Thankyou
I have a weird story, though it pales in comparison to all of these.
I like to flyfish in this enormous shallow bay in Lake Huron for carp. I lost a particular custom carp fly (#8 hook) somewhere in the bay at the start of June. Two weeks later while fishing a fauvorite 1 mile wide stretch, I pulled in my fly to clear some weeds and my old fly was on the hook bend of my fly. Not a great story - but what are the odds of that?
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Location: La Crosse, WI | I was on a week long fishing trip with my uncle, grandpa, and a couple other guys up by Ignace, Ontario. We were mainly jigging for walleyes and mixing in a little northern and lake trout fishing. We had three boats among the group and we stayed pretty close for the most part.
In the middle of the week one guy in the boat next to us brought out some jalapeno venison sticks that were about 12 inches long. We asked him to throw a couple over so he motored to within about 10 feet of us. Now this guy is about 6'2 250lbs and he threw this venison stick and it landed right in between our boats. We had a pretty good laugh about that.
The next day we were fishing in the same spot jigging for walleyes and my grandpa hooked into a northern and it bit him off. About an hour later or so, I caught the northern and it had my grandpa's jig in its mouth( it was one of those jigs with a small blade that hangs off the back of the head). Well we decided to keep the northern because it was just under or over the slot limit. This was a while ago and I don't remember what the slot limit was but it seems like you couldn't keep any between 28-34 inches or something like that. This was only the second northern we decided to keep because my uncle wanted to pickle some.
We got back to the cabin at about dark and started cleaning the fish. My uncle was using an electric fillet knife and when he cut that northern open, there lied that jalapeno venison stick WHOLE. There wasn't a single tooth mark in it and it looked like you just took it out of the cooler. I couldn't believe it! We kept two notherns all week and this northern had eaten a venison stick, had my grandpa's jig in its mouth, and I caught it jigging for walleyes. Still hard to comprehend the odds of that one! |
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| The photo of the eagle in the water was similar to an experience I had at our cottage near Rhinelander. I got up and was making coffee about 6:30 am and I heard a racket outside, sounded like a hundred crows going full on nuts. I went to the front windows and opened the blinds. Next to the dock was a mature eagle, flapping around in the water. I went to get my wife but by the time we got back it was flying away. About a half hour later, I had finished breakfast and walked down on the dock and the crows were going nuts again. I couldn't see where they all were and looked across the lake at where the eagle I had seen was still sitting in a tree. Just then I heard the flapping of wings and an eagle came over my head, no more than 2 feet above me.
The next summer we had a federal fish and wildlife guy who specialized in raptors talk to our lake assoc. I spoke to him later about what happened and he said probably two males, one drove the other into the lake but then was pinned in a tree by flock of crows and that was why it was still there when I came out. My walking outside dispersed the crows and the dominant male then felt comfortable flying away. He said that when they compete for territory, not uncommon for one male to drive another into the lake or sometimes the ground.
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Some of you Fellas must listen to Art Bell a lot.
Spooky ,Man, Spooky !
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| I've seen a lot of really cool and neat things while fishing up north and only two of them are what I consider to be borderline paranormal.
That whole LVD canoe thing was one and the Pauling Light is the other. The Light is very neat to see, but it didn't make my knees shake like the canoes did.
That is a great story about the northern and the venison. Maybe I'll soak some venison sausage this fall along with a few suckers. |
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Location: Minnesota | KARLOUTDOORS - 5/6/2012 3:34 PM
Nude bathers, two of them, 20 somethings females on Dryberry, the boys they were with were out fishing according to them (hmmmm???)
Three eagles fighting each other for one smallie on a sept trip on Tomahawk. VERY cool, (not to diminish the aforementioned females on dryberry). one came down and snatched up the bass when it was attacked in mid air by number two in a mid air tug of war.
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| MuskyTime - 5/17/2012 10:19 AM
I once watched a documentary about how on some days people on the Ohio side of Lake Erie (Cleveland) can see cars, people walking, buildings and such from the other side of the lake (Canada). Only it's as if what they are seeing is just a few hundred yards off shore. I think the distance is like 90 miles? For several years this was never explained but recently they determined that on certain days there is an atmospheric anomaly that acts as a magnifying glass. Something to that extent.
I saw something like this the other day on Lake Superior fishing out of Duluth. I swear we could see the Silver Bay mining building in the distance...but that's 55 miles away! |
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| I fellow Canadian flyout fisherman told me this story: they were out fishing as usual one day on a remote flyout lake, only ones on the lake deal ....Anyway as they pulled into the bay of the camp from fishing that evening, they thought they were seeing someone standing on their dock! Knowing that everyone in the group was still fishing, something didn't look right. As they got closer in, yep, three guys standing on their dock! As the got closer still, three guys NAKED standing on their dock!!!
Now I don't know if they docked their boat right next to three naked guys or stayed a safe distance away before striking up a conversation (that's what I'd do). Story goes that these three guys crashed their float plane about five miles away from this oustpost camp. Luckily prior to going down they had seen these guys fishing and/or this cabin. After crashing, they plodded through five miles of brush and miraculously made it to the cabin. I couldn't imagine. Surviving a plane crash then tracking back to where you had seen a cabin or fisherman five miles away thru the Canadian bush? One of the guys was pretty banged up - turned out he had a punctured lung. Other two had broken ribs etc. Search planes were all over and they picked these guys up that day or the next. Oh they were naked because their clothes were nothing but mud, and they had stripped to wash them in the lake.
What a story! What a miracle they survived!
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Location: Minnesota | MuskyTime - 5/17/2012 10:19 AM
I once watched a documentary about how on some days people on the Ohio side of Lake Erie (Cleveland) can see cars, people walking, buildings and such from the other side of the lake (Canada). Only it's as if what they are seeing is just a few hundred yards off shore. I think the distance is like 90 miles? For several years this was never explained but recently they determined that on certain days there is an atmospheric anomaly that acts as a magnifying glass. Something to that extent.
That's a phenomenomenomenomenon referred to as "Looming", which is the appearance above the horizon of a distant object that would normally be hidden below it. This effect is caused by unusually large terrestrial refraction, usually due to a thermal inversion.
It is explained in detail here. http://mintaka.sdsu.edu/GF/explain/atmos_refr/horizon.html
For the most part, though, the formula for how far you can see when standing on "flat" ground is 7 x height in feet/4. |
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| A very cool experience was this...
we're doing a 10 day canoe float in the Ozarks, south central MO, essentially backpacking in/out of canoes and fishing for smallies. There's a 3 day stretch where you will not see a single house, bridge, evan a power line over the river. Nothing but 100-300 foot granit bluffs, first on one side then the other. Very cool.
One morning we're fishing and drifting with one of those huge bluffs to the right. All of a sudden we are just about blown out of our canoes by a HUGE blast of sound and power and we look up and see a incredibly amazing sight. It is a Air Force Stealth Bomber powering up and out and doing it right over our heads. At that time the Stealth jets were still not public knowledge, like the late 80?s. We sure were suprised, never saw such in our lives.
After an hour of laughing and wondering about it all we really, really get rocked. A full-size beast, a B-52 goes right over us, again at about 200' and because of the bluff we don't hear a thing until the plane and noise EXPLODES right over our heads. Being 200' under a powering up B-52, well, I reccomend the experience to anyone. |
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| I am glad I got this on video, I had a little time to kill one evening so I grabbed a rod and went to a local hole in hopes that there is a hungry musky in there. I had been there for half hour or so with no luck. But it was nice to get out for a bit.
As the video shows I cast out, and work the bait not quite half way in when out of the top of my field of view I caught movement and it felt like 5 minutes to me as it happened. This osprey was full tuck head first on top of my bait (I did not know it was there), I stayed calm (even thought it scared the crap out of me) and resisted setting the hook because my luck would have been driving the hooks in the birds legs. I had long needle nose, boga, and jaw spreaders but i think none of those tools would have helped with the butt kicking the bird would have done to me. For the next few secounds I held my breath hoping it would fly away empty handed because I knew it would be bad if the bird got caught, for the both me and the bird.
Luckly the bird missed, I am very thank ful of that. It wasnt ten minutes later I seen an osprey fly back into the hole (No way of knowing if it was the same bird) so I called it a day.
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Location: SE, WI. | Back about 45 years ago, my dad and uncle used to take me perch fishing on Pelican lake. The old hitching post in Mud bay. We would bring up large mud crabs from our local ponds and use the tails for bait. About 6 pm we would come in for dinner. After dinner we would come out and clean the boat out for the next day. Evening after eve the crabs in our boat were disappearing. One eve after dinner we came out and caught the culprit in our boat. Yes , A coon. The coon started to run off the pier, then stopped by the shore. My dad tossed his usual Smoke, (tiparillo) at the coon. The coon picks up the cigar, puts the filter in his mouth and runs under the cabin. I got no sleep that night as I thought the cabin might start on fire. The things we remember as kids!!! Couple years back up on the woods, my wife and I watched two 30lb snapping turtles mating for about 20 minutes. Have some video of the ordeal. Very weird how those things mate. I'll try to download the vid to utube for you to view. |
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