New Zealand Local Weather Forum
General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: Deano on May 24, 2012, 02:44:24 PM
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If you wanted to bag a wild pig for the freezer, 200m out in a lake is hardly the first place you'd look.
But a fairly average fishing expedition turned into a successful hunting foray for Kuratau man Bob Monteith and a mate when they caught a wild sow they found swimming in Lake Taupo.
The pair were afloat in Kawakawa Bay in the lake's remote north-west quarter on the first day of a three-day fishing trip when they heard a dog "going to town" in the distance.
They set off to see what the fuss was about and about 200m offshore came across a pig paddling like crazy towards the open water, with a dog in hot pursuit.
They maneuvered their boat between pig and dog, channelled their inner cowboys to lasso the pig, pulled the tired animal on board.
Full story http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10808144 (http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10808144)
How bizarre! :o
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One feels for the pig who was swimming to freedom and ended up roasted golden brown
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Just when it thought "I got away"
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There was a picture last year in the press of a deer swimming down queen Charlotte sound. I'll see if I can dig it up. Same scenario though just no dog
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Here you go. If there was no picture supplied I wouldn't have beleived it:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/oddstuff/4059799/Swimming-stag-surprises-fishermen
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Talk about catch of the day!