Tell Us Your Father’s Day Fish Stories!


by on Jun 21st, 2009

father daughter halibutMany of you had your day out in our local waters celebrating Father’s day with Daddy Fisherman and are just finishing up eating your day’s catch.

Go ahead and share your story of today’s big catch, here. Even if you didn’t go fishing today or the new fishing rules limited your catch, feel free to tell us a past fish tale your father told you!

Your story doesn’t have to be quite as dramatic as six-year-old Tegan Humphrey’s. Last Sunday, she did her father proud by landing a very large halibut on board Capt. Rob Hyslip’s charter boat in Alaska. The Anchorage Daily News says that, not unlike a lot of you who went to Coney Island yesterday, she was fishing for a mermaid.

Of course, she had some help from dad and the captain’s sawed-off shotgun. The Slanch Report tells us that while she was more than willing to reel the fish in, she did not want it shot. We knew the story of a little girl reeling it all in by herself sounded a little fishy!

But, keep your comments sans-guns — because, Sheepshead Bay has seen more than its share of fishes and guns!

(Photo courtesy of Paula Frisinger & Homer Jackpot Halibut Derby via AOL Good News Network)

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  • Anthony

    Ah yes, fishing for a mermaid; the story of my life. Much like any normal red-blooded guy, I’d always pondered the physics of mermaid sex. How? Where? With whom? and how can I get her number?
    Yet, every time I am about to find out, I am awoken by the alarm clock and another boring day on dry land.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, Anthony. That’s disturbing. Besides… everyone knows how it works with mermaids. They lay the eggs first, and then you fertilize them. Duh!

  • Anonymous

    Anthony, that’s your Father’s Day Fish Story? Somebody, get me the gun!
    Ned, has it ever occurred to you that mermen who chose to live on this side of earth might be reading the blog? Besides, doesn’t sound like our commenter wanted to swim up stream to become a father!

  • http://www.antsrants.webs.com Anthony

    Eggs? Fertilization? Ned, are you drunk? I know not of what you speak! I’m thinking kinky and you’re talking biology. Please!!

    As for you Ray… what’s this nonsense about Mermen? Nowhere in my fantasy world is there any kind of man-fish or any kind of man at all for that matter!
    Besides you are way off base with this “swimming upstream to be a father” crapola. I’m trying to get freaky with a mythological beast and you’re saddling me with paternal responsibility! Boy, this is the last time I share a Father’s Day story with you two!

    Oh, as for sawed-off shotguns to take out the children of Neptune, I’ll remind you that legend has it that Sadaam Hussein used to throw hand grenades in the water when he fished. Not that I’m endorsing that… or anything else he’s done for that matter.

    By the way, I added a links page to my own blog site with Sheepshead Bites right at the top for all to see.
    Peace out.

  • Anonymous

    Your website says: “Leave some comments and give up some love for my good friend and blogger Ray Johnson.”

    What – people shouldn’t leave me love? It’s all I ever wanted in this world.

  • Anthony

    Herman Munster once said “Jealousy is the stink-weed in the garden of life.” I rest my case, lol.

  • Jim

    A Father’s Day Fish Story, for real.

    My father was once walking barefoot on a fishing pier. Not very bright.

    Well, he stepped on a fish and got bones stuck in his foot. From that day on, he would not eat fish.

    I said he wasn’t very bright.

  • Anonymous

    Jim, thanks for the story. Very amusing. But, did your dad stop eating even tuna fish from the can?

  • Jim

    You bet, all of it.

    He also was sent to a private school as a kid. There he was fed bad pasta. What do you expect? For the rest of his life he would not eat Italian style food.

    Let’s just say, he was intellectually challanged.

    Food was very boring when I was a child.

  • Anonymous

    Suddenly, your story went from amusing to sad. A life without pasta or Italian style food? You have our sympathies, Jim.

  • Jim

    Not really sad. Dad spent a lot time out of town. So we could eat anything thing?

    But, there was another problem. Mom was a rotten cook.

    So I had to learn how to cook. Starting early at the stove is a good thing!

  • Courtney

    hi,
    I am Tegan’s mom, the only reason the fish was shot was that you can not pull a live 7 foot fish on the boat with you unless it is already dead (imagine something that large flopping around knocking you overboard in 40 degree water)
    And it was my husbands fathers day present, and I dare say the best one he has ever gotten. She and her sister discussed it at dinner the night before Tegan was fishing for a mermaid, and Natalie wanted a giant squid, apparently noone was actually fishing for halibut.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you, Courtney, for writing in…I’m wondering if the fish was made into dinner…my mom loved to serve halibut to us when we were younger, but hasn’t done so for years…so Tegan’s catch really made my mouth water.

  • Anthony

    Ah yes, fishing for a mermaid; the story of my life. Much like any normal red-blooded guy, I’d always pondered the physics of mermaid sex. How? Where? With whom? and how can I get her number?
    Yet, every time I am about to find out, I am awoken by the alarm clock and another boring day on dry land.

  • Anonymous

    Wow, Anthony. That’s disturbing. Besides… everyone knows how it works with mermaids. They lay the eggs first, and then you fertilize them. Duh!

  • Anonymous

    Anthony, that’s your Father’s Day Fish Story? Somebody, get me the gun!
    Ned, has it ever occurred to you that mermen who chose to live on this side of earth might be reading the blog? Besides, doesn’t sound like our commenter wanted to swim up stream to become a father!

  • http://www.antsrants.webs.com/ Anthony

    Eggs? Fertilization? Ned, are you drunk? I know not of what you speak! I’m thinking kinky and you’re talking biology. Please!!

    As for you Ray… what’s this nonsense about Mermen? Nowhere in my fantasy world is there any kind of man-fish or any kind of man at all for that matter!
    Besides you are way off base with this “swimming upstream to be a father” crapola. I’m trying to get freaky with a mythological beast and you’re saddling me with paternal responsibility! Boy, this is the last time I share a Father’s Day story with you two!

    Oh, as for sawed-off shotguns to take out the children of Neptune, I’ll remind you that legend has it that Sadaam Hussein used to throw hand grenades in the water when he fished. Not that I’m endorsing that… or anything else he’s done for that matter.

    By the way, I added a links page to my own blog site with Sheepshead Bites right at the top for all to see.
    Peace out.

  • Anonymous

    Your website says: “Leave some comments and give up some love for my good friend and blogger Ray Johnson.”

    What – people shouldn’t leave me love? It’s all I ever wanted in this world.

  • Anthony

    Herman Munster once said “Jealousy is the stink-weed in the garden of life.” I rest my case, lol.

  • Jim

    A Father’s Day Fish Story, for real.

    My father was once walking barefoot on a fishing pier. Not very bright.

    Well, he stepped on a fish and got bones stuck in his foot. From that day on, he would not eat fish.

    I said he wasn’t very bright.

  • Anonymous

    Jim, thanks for the story. Very amusing. But, did your dad stop eating even tuna fish from the can?

  • Jim

    You bet, all of it.

    He also was sent to a private school as a kid. There he was fed bad pasta. What do you expect? For the rest of his life he would not eat Italian style food.

    Let’s just say, he was intellectually challanged.

    Food was very boring when I was a child.

  • Anonymous

    Suddenly, your story went from amusing to sad. A life without pasta or Italian style food? You have our sympathies, Jim.

  • Jim

    Not really sad. Dad spent a lot time out of town. So we could eat anything thing?

    But, there was another problem. Mom was a rotten cook.

    So I had to learn how to cook. Starting early at the stove is a good thing!

  • Courtney

    hi,
    I am Tegan’s mom, the only reason the fish was shot was that you can not pull a live 7 foot fish on the boat with you unless it is already dead (imagine something that large flopping around knocking you overboard in 40 degree water)
    And it was my husbands fathers day present, and I dare say the best one he has ever gotten. She and her sister discussed it at dinner the night before Tegan was fishing for a mermaid, and Natalie wanted a giant squid, apparently noone was actually fishing for halibut.

  • Anonymous

    Thank you, Courtney, for writing in…I’m wondering if the fish was made into dinner…my mom loved to serve halibut to us when we were younger, but hasn’t done so for years…so Tegan’s catch really made my mouth water.