Posted on 02/18/2010 6:56:57 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
Ryan Byrnes loves fishing so much that he left Phoenix to spend winters at college in Ely, Minn., where walleye are practically a snowball's throw from his classrooms.
Wednesday night he got an ice-fishing experience he'll never forget: First, he caught his first walleye ever. Second, he got shot in the head.
"The next I know, I'm laying in the snow and there is blood on the ground," said Byrnes, 18. "I felt the back of my head and it was bloody."
Byrnes, a student at Vermilion Community College in Ely, was fishing on Shagawa Lake with his roommate Cody Kuznia.
"The fish were biting, and everything was golden," said Byrnes, 18. "... Caught my first walleye. I was very excited."
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Hooking into a wall eye is equivilant to getting a snag. they just lay at the bottom of the lake. Good eating thought...When my dad and I would go out trolling, he’d swear I got a snag when I caught one, pull on the line and tell me I don’t have a fish just a snag on the bottom, but always brought up a wall eye...No fight in those fish. Perch give you a better fight..and are a heck of a lot smaller...
It’s the poor kid’s first fish.
It’s whatever he want’s it to be.
Doesn’t appear that the bullet to the head did any damage.
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