Australian man whose finger was severed on fishing trip uses the digit to catch a golden trevally
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Aussie man whose finger was severed by a crab on a fishing trip uses the digit as bait to catch a 25-pound golden trevally
- After a crab snipped off his finger a Queensland man decided to use it as bait
- His mates said they should cut short the fishing adventure but he wanted to stay
- He dropped the digit in the water as a joke and caught the biggest fish of the trip
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A keen fisherman has recounted a tale not for squeamish after he revealed he used his own severed finger as bait after a crab snipped it off – and caught a prized fish.
The man known only as Chris from Townsville in far north Queensland called in to Triple M’s The Rush Hour with A.B. and Elliot on Monday.
‘It was a long weekend fishing trip and we’d been on the beers for a while and we decided to drop the (crab) pots out,’ he told the captivated hosts.
Th angler explained that he and his mates returned to camp and had a few more beers before checking the pots after a few hours.
‘I pulled one up and grabbed one of the crabs out and he bit me on my left pointing finger.’
The keen angler was more concerned about not disrupting his fishing trip than reattaching the severed digit (stock image)
He claimed he didn’t feel anything amiss but when he looked down about half of his finger was on the floor of the boat.
‘The boys decided we might call it quits and head you home and I said ‘no we’ve travelled all this way’ so we ended up staying and went fishing the next day.’
Remarkably unconcerned about reattaching his finger, the larrikin explained he was trying to be funny when he instead attached it to his line and threw it overboard.
‘I ended up catching a 25-pound golden trevally.’
‘It was the biggest fish we caught that weekend so I had bragging rights.’
Even more bizarrely the fisherman then revealed he retrieved the finger from the fish and has stored it ‘in a bottle of metho in the shed’.
Hosts A.B. and Elliot, who are searching for Townsville’s ‘best yarn’, reacted with a mix of shock and amusement and scored the tale a nine and a seven out of 10 respectively.
‘Might want to just stick to prawns next trip mate,’ Elliot advised.
He caught a 25-pound golden trevally (file image) which was the biggest fish they caught on the adventure