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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.
Are you talking about the eagles or the nekkid girls? |
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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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| So Sara Palin really COULD see Russia from her house... |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | No, but the Russians sure as hell can see her. And I guarantee they can hear her. Every word. |
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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: Green Bay, WI | Very cool video!!! Thanks for sharing.
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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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