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Fishermen’s Tales – Some Taller than others!

A woman walked into the kitchen to find her husband stalking around wtih a flyswatter. “What are you doing?” She asked.”Hunting Flies” He responded.”Oh!, Killing any?” She asked.”Yep, 3 males, 2 Females”, he replied. Intrigued, she asked. “How can you tell?”, “3 were on a beer can, 2 were on the phone”. He responded.

God give me strength to catch a fish, So big that even I, When telling of it afterwards, Have no need to lie.

A fisherman in Kiev electrocuted himself while fishing in the river Tereblya. The 43-year-old man connected cables to the main power supply of his home, and trailed the end into the river. The electric shock killed the fish, which floated belly-up to the top of the water. The man waded in to collect his catch, neglecting to remove the live wire, and tragically suffered the same fate as the fish. In an ironic twist, the man was fishing for a mourning meal to commemorate the first anniversary of his mother-in-law’s death.

A Fisherman from Stiniog was tying flies in order to go fishing and had been particularly successful in tying a Coch y Bonddu. After admiring it, and quietly patting himself on the back that it looked just like the real fly, he put it to one side and set about tying another one.Feeling that he had done just as good a job on this one too, he went to put it with the first one. But that was nowhere to be seen. He looked all around and on the floor, but there was no sign of the Coch y Bonddu. Then from the corner of his eye he saw a movement at the top corner of the window, and taking a closer look he saw a spider taking his fly up to where he had his web and shelter!. Extract taken from “Traditional Fishing in Wales by Emrys Evans

A chap and his girlfriend went for a walk one evening, and crossed a bridge over a river. He looked over the parapet and saw a fine salmon in the pool just under the bridge.”Take your tights off!” he said excitedly to his girlfriend. She stared at him, but there was no denying the light in his eyes, and she obeyed. The two, it seems, had been courting each other for a long time. She may have been disappointed, or perhaps relieved, when he grabbed the tights and headed towards the river and the salmon!.
Extract taken from “Traditional Fishing in Wales by Emrys Evans

A quarryman for Dinorwig claimed that he had caught a fish in Llyn Padarn which was so big that he didn’t have enough energy to pull it ashore. Having struggled with the monster for three whole hour’s, the nine o’clock train from Caernarfon to Llanberis cam past, and the driver saw that the fisherman was in some difficulty, and thoroughly exhausted. He stopped the train, and then hooked the line to the engine. And so it was that the fish was dragged ashore, and the water in the lake went down a good foot!.
Extract taken from “Traditional Fishing in Wales by Emrys Evans