About 15 years ago I was fishing right before light on the Nestucca tidewater near Woods bridge.

It was my first time fishing the area so my partner instructed me to cast near the boat dock as the Fall Chinook like to hide under them.

The dock was a mere silhouette, so my depth perception must have been off because my first cast landed on the dock with a clunk.

Well, a dark shape came out from under an over turned little boat that was sitting on the dock and the next thing I know line is just flat peeling off of my reel.

My partner says, "Ya got one?!!" and I say, "I DON'T KNOW, BUT MY LINE IS GOING UP THAT WALKWAY TOWARDS THAT HOUSE!"

We rowed to shore and followed the line up the walkway.

The line then went under the neighbors fence, then over the next neighbors fence, then under that neigbors stilted house then to the front door of that home.

It was an odd situation to knock on the door and have to wake up the owner to ask then to hold their cat while we plucked a treble hook from it's leg.

Yes, a catfish in the Nestucca tidewater.