Accidental Fishing
How not to catch a fish
According to an article appearing in the Wisconsin State Journal (Madison) on July 1, 1998, muskies may be developing a taste for unusual bait.
Dan Droessler, a Platteville, Wisconsin, police officer was vacationing at Governor Dodge State Park near Dodgeville, Wisconsin. He had been dangling his foot in the water over the side of a canoe at Twin Valley Lake when a 36-inch tiger muskie clamped onto his foot. The surprised Droessler, who wasn’t even fishing (and usually does not fish), pulled his foot out of the water, and the muskie dropped into the canoe.
Droessler required 60 stitches in a local hospital emergency room.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources then confiscated the fish. Warden Randy Rossing said, "We had to take it. It’s not a legal size for one thing, and it’s not a legal way to catch a fish—with your foot."
Droessler did eventually get to keep the fish.
(Wisconsin State Journal, "Tiger muskie opens mouth, inserts foot; OUCH! says bait," by Patricia Simms, July 1, 1998.)
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