In cartoons, anglers catch rubber boots. In real life, they catch somebody's prosthetic leg.

That's the catch Beth Krohn reeled in recently on Lake Ida, near Alexandria, Minnesota. At first she thought it was a real leg. When she realized it was an artificial leg she phoned some specialists and it turned out the leg belonged to Pam Riley of Morris, Minnesota who lost it about three years ago while swimming in Lake Ida.

The women met and Riley got her leg back. Both will remember the trophy that didn't get away.

(Pierce County Herald)

Strange but True
Many years ago two elderly members of our fishing club arrived at the reservoir to find a floating dead body. This was in the days before mobile phones and because they'd walked a quarter of a mile from a car park, up a steep hill to the fishery, they decided as the body was dead not to report it until they finished fishing. At 5pm they rang the information in from a pay phone in the nearest village. Apparently the Police went balistic when they learned about the delay in passing on the information about the corpse. Neither of the elderly anglers was prosecuted but apparently they could have been.