ok heres a couple..... I caught a ratfish while salmon fishing in the puget sound.....
Ratfish are the scourge of the ocean to Pacific Northwest fisherman, by they are VERY cool underwater. These fish are related to sharks and have cartilage based bodies. The do not swim using their tail fin like most fish - they use their large pectoral fins instead. Ratfish are usually not too approachable during the day, but at night they will often come right up to a bright light.
2. While catfishing on the yakima river one hot afternoon.... I kept getting my worms taken... tink...tink.... hook SET and then bam felt like I hooked a log.. snap went the line dammit.. this went on for some time.. Cause im a tenacious little shit.
So bigger pole bigger heavier line.. tink tink hook SET and the log moved.. HAHA ill at least get it out of the good hole (I thought) slowly reeled her in.
Then all of a sudden it surfaced right next to out little 10 foot jon boat....
the BIGGEST sturgeon ive ever seen... It kinda did a loch ness monster surface and dove down took my line with it and snap* off it was.
I still get chills at the size of the monster....