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HERE SHE COMES! Hurricane Isaias is on its way and there’s no stopping it.

Via @savage

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DYK?!?! 🦆💩Bass? Tarpon? Thoughts? 🤯👇

Research has demonstrated that certain fish eggs can survive passage through the digestive system of mallard ducks.

In a study, researchers fed fertilized eggs of common and Prussian carp to captive mallards. After passing through the ducks’ digestive tracts, some of these eggs remained viable and successfully hatched into baby carps when placed in water.

This finding suggests that mallards and potentially other waterfowl can transport fish eggs across various distances. By consuming the eggs in one waterbody and later defecating them in another, these birds may inadvertently introduce fish to new ponds and pools, explaining the sudden appearance of fish in previously fishless waters.

So, is this how snook, tarpon, bass, bluegill, you name it show up in ponds “magically”?

#nature #ducks #pond #fish #fishing

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Little man is CALM! 💯 Can you imagine seeing one this close? 🤯🤯

Sweet video from Captain Jordan Todd @saltwater_obsessions ✅

#fish #fishing #nature #animal #ocean

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WHAT IS THIS?!?! 👽👾
He caught a ____ 🫣👇
Mystery species with @mysterytacklebox

Via @robchapmanfishing
Flashback to off Captiva shark fishing — our Jack was nailed by a toothy critter, and then this wild thing attached itself 🐛😱

#alien #sea #ocean #wtf #nature

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DANGER!! ⚠️ Have you met this fish? ☠️👇
The term “leatherjacket fish” refers to several fish species, but in the context of poison, it most commonly refers to the venomous spines of the Leatherjacket (Oligoplites saurus) species.

These spines, found on the dorsal and anal fins, can inflict a painful sting with venomous glands.

While not usually fatal, the sting can cause intense burning pain and swelling, and the pain can last for an hour or more!

Not satire, this pain is real!

#fish #fishing #nature #poison #thefishingdrag

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You can’t make this up! 💍😳👇
A snorkeler off Australia’s Norfolk Island spotted a mullet fish swimming around with a gold wedding ring stuck around its head.

In 2021, Susan Prior, a travel writer and avid swimmer, recognized the shiny band as something different from the usual plastic rings she often saw tangled on marine life. After some digging, she realized it matched a local’s recently lost wedding ring — but despite her efforts, she couldn’t catch the fish to remove it.

Prior explained that mullet fish are especially prone to getting stuck in rings due to their habit of digging through sand for food.

Via @realratedred

*This story is not satire! Too crazy even for us to make up! 😂

#fish #nature #viral #news #thefishingdrag

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Sharks are evolving fast! 🦈📲😂
Via @laxative

#meme #sharkweek #shark #sharks #funny

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CHATHAM, MASS. — Great white sharks have begun hunting completely upside down, marine researchers say, in an apparent bid to conceal the one feature that always gives them away: the dorsal fin.

The behavior surfaced in a viral video last week, in which a great white was filmed rolling belly-up and swimming erratically just beneath the surface, its fin tucked harmlessly underwater. The clip racked up 403 million views and a prime slot on National Shark Month on the 24/7 Shark Network.

Dr. Quint Harlow, a shark biologist, studied the footage frame by frame and reached a conclusion he described as “both thrilling and a little unsettling.”

“For the history of the species, the dorsal fin has been the tell — the thing every seal, surfer, and sea lion learns to fear,” Harlow said. “These animals appear to have figured out that if you flip over, the fin vanishes. No warning at all. It is, genuinely, the most terrifying idea a shark has ever had.”

Researchers are divided on the cause. The leading theory holds that a decade of drones, GoPros, and relentless social media surveillance have placed the great white under enormous performance pressure — and that, like any influencer, it has evolved to beat the algorithm. “They know they’re being watched,” Harlow said. “They’ve adapted to the content cycle.” Harlow reached out to fellow marine biologist Dr. Stanza for a second opinion, but Stanza was preoccupied with the Yankees’ new summer uniforms and could not be reached for comment.

The video’s comment section, meanwhile, loaded with social media experts — the kind who know everything about everything, each with a theory of their own. “100% because of AI data centers,” wrote @sharkhippy_lover67. “wrong, it’s El Niño, wake up people,” fired back @reelbigfish_88, in a reply with 214,000 likes.

“Every predator eventually overexposes itself,” warned viral strategist Chum Delgado. “The upside-down thing is going to trend. And once it trends, the seals adapt too.”

Off Chatham, witnesses say the seals have already started swimming upside down too — just to be safe.

The Fishing Drag is satire ✅

#shark #sharks #greatwhiteshark #viral #sharkweek

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We are satire. This story is 100% true! ✅ WILD story 🦈👇
At The Fishing Drag we intentionally mix very real information (like tiger sharks eating EVERYTHING) to bring in absurdity and satire.

Here’s the full story : In 1935, a tiger shark caught near Sydney, Australia, was displayed in a Coogee Aquarium tank. While there, it regurgitated a human arm with a distinctive tattoo. The arm was traced back to James Smith, a boxer and small-time criminal who had gone missing. Investigators concluded that the arm had been severed with a blade rather than bitten off. This discovery led to a murder investigation, eventually revealing connections to organized crime and culminating in arrests, though the case remains partially unsolved as the body was never found.

Via @factsdailyy

We love the fishing industry and if you’re ever unsure about the truth - our site or any site now - google it! That’s still the best advice, and check sources 👀✅

#fish #shark #sharkweek #history #thefishingdrag

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KETCHIKAN, ALASKA — Sweeteats, the global baking powerhouse, has unveiled its most divisive product line yet: three cookies baked with real fish. The company insists it is trendsetting. Early customers insist they are addicted. Both, alarmingly, appear to be correct.

The debut trio — the Smokey Kingfish S’mores, the Soft-Baked Salmon Oreo Surprise, and the Tangy Tuna Snickerdoodle — landed at a few farmers and fishers markets around Ketchikan last month. Demand went, in the company’s own words, “completely feral.”

Sweeteats is a 21st-generation Alaskan fishing family, and for twenty of those generations it simply fished. The cookies are new — the work of the family’s seven daughters, all of whom love to bake and all of whom noticed the same problem: the family had caught far too many fish. “We had freezers on freezers on freezers,” said matriarch Marnie Sweet. “You can only give away so much salmon before the neighbors stop answering the door.”

The breakthrough came after a call to Beverly Wonka — the real-life great-granddaughter of the man Willy Wonka was reportedly based on — who flew up, tasted a test batch, and, according to those present, wept. “She said we’d cracked something no one was supposed to crack,” Sweet said. “Then she signed an NDA and left.”

The secret, the family insists, is not some lab-made flavor. It is chunks of real fish meat, folded straight into sweet cookie dough — no artificial flavoring, no mumbo jumbo. It should not work. It works completely. “It’s sweet, then it’s salty, then it doesn’t make sense, and then suddenly it makes all the sense in the world,” said one customer, unwilling to put the rest of the cookie down.

“I came for the snickerdoodle and now I dream about kingfish,” read one five-star review. Another, in full: “My husband hid the box from me. The cat found it first, ate all six, and spent four days at the vet. Worth every cent — I just wish I’d finished the last two before he did.”

#fish #cookies #fishing #dessert #seafood

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Mind blowing PIKE TREE! 🤯🐟🪾How do you think it happened?

Via @historyinmemes ➡️ In a quiet lake, a pike leapt from the water, chasing prey with fierce intent. Misjudging its path, it snagged on a low-hanging branch, where it dangled and died. Over time, a bird discovered the fish’s open mouth, now a perfect hollow. Seizing the opportunity, it wove a nest inside, transforming the predator’s jaws into a cradle for new life.

We’ll ask the next biologist ok our show what they think!

We love satire, but this is 100% real! ✅

#fish #fishing #nature #outdoors #thefishingdrag

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ISLAMORADA, FL — Marine biologists in the Florida Keys are struggling to explain the sudden appearance of dozens of bright pink goldfish in local waters — a mystery that has now been traced, improbably, to a gender reveal held 1,400 miles away in suburban Michigan.

Back in April, influencers Braxton and Kynzlee Vandermeer — known to their 900,000 followers as @TheVanderVibes — announced the sex of their third child by dumping a cooler of pink-dyed goldfish into a lake near Grand Rapids, filming the whole thing in slow motion set to an acoustic cover of a Coldplay song. “We wanted something natural,” Kynzlee said. “Balloons are so 2019.”

The couple assumed the fish simply swam off to live their lives. They did — aggressively. Goldfish released into the wild can survive almost anything, grow to alarming sizes, and, as it turns out, apparently relocate to the Florida Keys, though no one can say precisely how.

The school was first spotted by Captain Amos Thresher, a grizzled charter skipper out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, who has spent his life chasing giant sharks and yellowtail snapper and figured he had seen it all — right up until a school of “little pink footballs” turned up in his chum line. “Ninety-one years on the water,” he said, “and I never once seen a school gorge on my chum like that.”

Marine biologist Dr. George Stanza, who is having quite a year, flew in to confirm. He identified the fish as common goldfish, dyed with food coloring, and “very, very far from home.” Genetic testing later matched them to a novelty pet store outside Kalamazoo.

Confronted with the news, the Vandermeers were delighted. “So they made it all the way to the ocean? That’s amazing,” Braxton said. “That’s a girl who knows what she wants.” He confirmed the couple is already planning a fourth reveal, teasing something “even bigger, involving either dolphins or a small drone.”

Wildlife officials were less enthusiastic, noting that releasing dyed goldfish into any body of water is both illegal and ecologically catastrophic. “Please,” one said, “stop putting your feelings into the ecosystem.”

*The Fishing Drag is satire ✅

#fish #fishing #news #thefishingdrag #viral

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