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A Fish Tale To Remember

Here's what happens when you just want to spend the day fishing and everything goes wrong... From the Seattle Times:

After rowing out a third time, they hooked a halibut. It broke Murphy James' line.

He rigged up again, hooked another halibut and got it close to the boat. He reached for his .22-caliber rifle to kill it. The gun would not fire.

James used his gaff hook and got the fish in the boat. But the 35-pound halibut flopped and the boat rocked. He tried to bash it with the gaff and the boat tilted.

"His feet got tangled up, and over the edge he goes," said Debra James, 51.

Water flowed over the edge and the boat filled halfway with water. She spotted Pepper swimming — outside the boat.

Debra James threw herself to the left side of the boat to keep it from flipping. She grabbed the dog and the rifle, and despite a bad back, she pulled her husband back into the boat.

"Adrenaline makes you very strong," she said.

For revenge on the halibut for causing so much trouble, Murphy James said he and his wife plan "to eat every bit of him."