As a kid watching those WW2 submarine movies I often wondered what happened to the torpedoes that missed. Did they keep on running across the ocean until they hit a distant shore? I stopped asking that question a few decades ago. But now I've got an answer... In Plymouth, England last Sunday, at 2:45 in the afternoon, the trawler Katherine M caught a WW2 torpedo and hauled it almost back to the boat. One can imagine the Captain as he saw what was about to be emptied onto the deck. In the event, the Captain called the coast guard and the torpedo was lowered back to the bottom to sleep with the fishes. The area is now marked.   

Twelve year old Connecticut boy Aiden Murray Medley landed a record beating 551 pound 9.5' bull shark on January 2 north of Florida's Palm Beach inlet. "This thing was huge," he said.  The massive shark is believed to top a 1981 record for 517 pounder caught at Panama City Beach.  Medley has been fishing since he was 5 years old.  Last year he caught a 461 pound shark.  We'll give his mom the last words, "I'm happy. I'm proud."

Hard core fishing in Costa Rica - Dave Sherwood writes about joining the Club Nacional de Pesca on a fishing trip for machaca.  "They jump like shad, have teeth like piranha and strike with the surface explosion of a northern bass".   The trip starts with Sherwood and club members floating down the the Rio Nino fully immersed in the river with flotation provided by life jackets.   NYTimes

Smelt fishing on the ice in Maine isn't about really fishing, it's about hanging out inside when it's cold outside.  NYTimes

North American Ice Fishing title captured in Alexandria MN  Echo Press

Nantucket scallopers are having a good season but they're still crabby.  The cost of living on the gold-plated isle is too high for regular working folks.  Speaking of crabs, crab season in the Pacific Northwest begins on December 1. The weather is turning colder all across the country. In Minnesota the ice on lakes and ponds is thick enough for ice fishing. Here in New England cold weather is forecast but the lakes and ponds won't see ice for a while yet. Maybe warmer climes make people crazy. A guy in Southern California was mad that a sea lion stole his bait... so... he did what a psycho would do and assualted the sea lion with a knife.  The unfortunate creature was euthanized.  

Nantucket scallopers having a good season Cape Cod Times
Crab season opening on Dec 1 in Pacific Northwest Curry Pilot
Minnesota's ice thick enough for ice fishing   West Central Tribune
SoCal man stabs sea lion for stealing bait AP

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