Captain Steven Ventura of the Sea Queen VII struck back against an aspiring thief Saturday night, foiling the plans of a knife-wielding dunce.
According to the NY Post, Ventura was off the coast of Coney Island around 11:20 p.m. with 15 passengers when he noticed the sinkers from his fishing lines vanishing. When he spotted the culprit, a fight ensued in which the thief, Joseph Neuer, brandished a knife. Ventura avoided injury as he slugged the would-be robber, and passengers and crew bound him with duct tape. When they docked at the Sheepshead Bay marina, police arrested the felon and charged him with third-degree assault, menacing, harassment, and petit larceny.
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Many 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)
I love this photo from Flickr user bayrat. It looks like it’s jammed outside of time; a dark, grainy film noir view of Brooklyn’s fishing culture. Bayrat, who comes from a family of Sheepshead Bay fishermen, wrote this about the photo:
I took this picture in 1976, when my father and brother fished out of Sheepshead Bay. The background buildings are in Rockaway, the boat is 2 miles offshore, in the Ocean. The apartment buildings in the background were new construction at that time.
