Two fishermen in Whitianga, New Zealand, nailed a massive 63kg catch, but it was a bit hairier than they'd bargained for.
Glen Dobbs and a friend, named only as Adrian, were out fishing in a tournament over the weekend when they encountered a wild boar swimming a few kilometres off the coast of
the Coromandel town.
They were cruising along on their way to a fishing spot when they
noticed a black shape bobbing up and down right in front of them and it
was the pig swimming way out in the ocean.
Luckily they had a solid hull because they hit the pig doing about 15-20 knots. It floated up behind the boat and they turned around and went back. The baffled pair struggled to haul the tired animal out of the water, before putting it out of its misery with a fishing knife. Once the bewilderment wore off, they set to gutting it in the hope of keeping the meat.
"As soon as we gutted it and chucked all of that over, heaps of sharks
came around and that was the end of the fishing," he said.
"We put up with the smell for a couple of hours, and in the end, I said,
mate, we've got to chuck the rest over.
I've been fishing heaps and I've never seen anything like it," Mr Dobbs said.
The pig didn't win the men the competition
Luckily they had a solid hull because they hit the pig doing about 15-20 knots. It floated up behind the boat and they turned around and went back. The baffled pair struggled to haul the tired animal out of the water, before putting it out of its misery with a fishing knife. Once the bewilderment wore off, they set to gutting it in the hope of keeping the meat.
"As soon as we gutted it and chucked all of that over, heaps of sharks
came around and that was the end of the fishing," he said.
"We put up with the smell for a couple of hours, and in the end, I said,
mate, we've got to chuck the rest over.
I've been fishing heaps and I've never seen anything like it," Mr Dobbs said.
The pig didn't win the men the competition
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