A 13-year old Dutch boy has one heck of a fish story to tell. While fishing in the North Sea near the town of Zierikzee, the young angler cast his line and hooked a big one! Hooked him right in the lip, too. The trophy-grade catch of the day: Scuba diver Wim van Huffelen who had been minding his own business taking a swim in the North Sea.
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) – A Dutch scuba diver became the surprise catch of the day for a 13-year-old boy fishing in the Netherlands when his hook got caught in the man's lip.
Unfortunately for Huffelen, the lad also happened to be an expert with a fish scaler and a fillet knife. OK, you got us. We made that up. We're still trying out for that wire service job.
"I heard a sound on my head and immediately I felt a jerk on my lip," Wim van Huffelen, who had been swimming in the North Sea, was quoted as saying by Dutch newspaper De Telegraaf.
The 13-year old is obviously a responsible angler who practices catch and release. A doctor was able to remove the hook from the man's lip. The Reuters article said that the Dutch newspaper ran a picture of the diver, hook and all, but we were not able to find it. All we could come up with is this article that has a picture of a fishhook. (Did you know that Dutch newspapers use some kind of special code that makes them really hard to read? You learn something new every day.)
