If we're doing fish, can I show off my favourite catch ever please? It's not the biggest I've caught but it is the most dangerous. Please note the high tech equipment on show, real men fish with a stick and some raw chicken
PIRANHA! :scare:
We were somewhere in the jungle, just outside Manaus (now of World Cup fame) and had spent the afternoon swimming in the Amazon. The guide said it was time for a spot of piranha fishing, so we got out the water, got in the boat and set off. After we got about 20 feet from the floating lodge where we'd been swimming, he stopped the boat and said right let's start fishing. Much to our horror it was about 3 minutes before someone pulled the first one out of the water :scare: . Needless to say, I didn't go back in for a dip after that...
The funniest thing was, when he was handling another one he caught, and trying to show us the teeth (and they are HUGE for the size of animal) he dropped it in the tiny wooden boat we were in. The fish was flapping about snapping away, we were all barefoot and trying to climb over each other to get out the way, all the time terrified the boat would capsize and dump us in with it's angry relatives. A swift machete blow restored calm.