This joke was pulled on my 10 year old son by guide on the Kenai a few years ago. My son a freind and his son Jake went fishing on the Kenai with a Guide R.W.
Fishing was slow the Boys had curled up and had fallen a sleep on the boat seats. So the guide says it looks time for the Bucket trick. So he reeled in my sons line and clipped on a 5 gal. bucket lossen his drag and turned on the clicker. He gunned the kicker motor and yelled fish on!!
Both boys jumped from their sleep my son grabs his pole and starts reeling with drag set losse the bucket was making a hell of a run. We told Jake the other boy to get the net ready and told my son it looks like you have a big king, so after about 10 min. he statrted to gain on this bucket and the other boy sees the bucket and" says it's a bucket". By the look on my son face you would have thaught someone had just shot his dog. The Guide says maybe there is a fish the bucket my sons reply was there better be. We got the whole thing on video we still look at every once in while and get a good laugh.