One tiger shark they caught turned out to have a hook already lodged deep in its stomach, so they used a long pole called a de-hooker to reach inside and remove it, returning the shark to the ocean healthier than it had arrived.
The huge bull shark, the top predator in the Florida Keys where it was caught, turned out to be a female, which are typically larger than males.
(In fact, most hagfish are caught inadvertently, when they show up uninvited in nets. Fishermen tell tales of their disgust when a plump choice fish they have just caught turns out to be a hollow shell, and an unwelcome hagfish slithers out of it).
All work stopped until they caught what turned out to be one very angry horsefly hauling a long tissue-paper banner with the words "Drink Pepsi Cola!" that Cole had patiently lettered and glued to the insect's back.
An N.Y.P.D. detective, Michael Bryer Tim Rothh), suspects that Robert is the man who fled the accident, and, as Roth plays him, Bryer is a ferrety pursuer — an envious Javert, enraged that the rich never get caught, who turns out to be less than straightforward himself.
When the actual thief was caught, his identity turned out to be, to those who thought a swashbuckling international criminal might be involved, a letdown.
A group of carefully arranged knickknacks that caught my eye turned out to have come from an uninventoried box of ephemera owned by the late modern dance icon Martha Graham, which Roden bought in an online auction.
Her catch, it turned out, was a 10-inch-long red-belly piranha, a species native to the Amazon and widely available in pet stores that Mr. Crabbe, 63, figured was dumped into the pond by a local pet owner.
George was a member of the George Formby Society, honoring the famous World War II-era comic virtuoso; on "Free as a Bird," you can hear (backward, naturally) John using Formby's catch phrase, "Turned out nice again".
The one catch, which turned out to be bigger than even the skeptics could have imagined at the time, was that New York City and New York State had to agree on a suitable way to use the island and protect its historic sites.
Driven by that sort of passion, my plan was a hamsi-fueled road trip along a 300-mile stretch of Turkey's central Black Sea coast, with stops en route to sample the best of the catch, which turned out to be delicately seasonal — available one day, then not the next.
