Earlier this summer I was fishing a deep bend where the ve caught a whole bunch of different fish and couldn’t be surprised to catch just about anything.
I was fishing a big tube and something long and sleek followed, and so instead of pulling it out of the water I let it drop a bit and BAM! I set the hook and it ran with power and speed that made me immediately wonder if the northern I thought had taken my lure was something else altogether!
My suspicion was confirmed when it got across the river from me and porpoised; it was a river otter!! I pointed my rod straight at it and the hook straightened a bit and popped free. I call that “otter bend” now!
Same spot this summer I caught a clam on a ned rig, and my son caught a soft shelled turtle there as well.
