# Brown Water Cowboy - Offshore Fishing

**URL:** <https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/brown-water-cowboy-offshore-fishing/193>\
**Category:** Scuttlebutt\
**Created:** [September 11, 2007, 7:14am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/brown-water-cowboy-offshore-fishing/193 "2007-09-11T07:14:57Z")\
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**Author:** ![albertpachino](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/forum.gcaptain.com/albertpachino/32/946_2.png) [@albertpachino](https://forum.gcaptain.com/u/albertpachino)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2007, 7:14am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/brown-water-cowboy-offshore-fishing/193/1 "2007-09-11T07:14:57Z")

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Last Saturday morning, my buddy Bo Warren and I were trolling for  
stripers in the Bay. We were 1 1/2 miles offshore in about 80 feet of  
water contemplating why the fish weren’t biting. We looked back to  
check our gear and saw something odd in the water. Was it a seal??  
Can’t be, we don’t have seals around here. On closer look, it turned  
out to be a buck deer that was WAY off course. He was desperate and  
barely staying afloat.  
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I’ve seen deer swim a river or bayou before. When you see that, the  
first thing you notice is that they are powerful swimmers. Their head  
and shoulders are out of the water and they make surprisingly good  
headway. This critter was just keeping his nose up and looked like he’d  
been swimming all night long. In fact, he was so worn out that he swam  
toward the boat probably thinking it looked enough like land to him.  
When he got closer though, he wasn’t sure what to make of the two dudes  
on board, and backed off.

So, since the fish weren’t biting, we thought we’d give this buck a hand.

Turns out Bo grew up around cows and was really handy with a bowline. He lassoed the deer on the first try!

Bo grabbed his neck, I grabbed the flank, and we barreled over  
backwards into the boat. Before I knew it, Bo was on top of him and had  
him tied up just like a calf.  
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[MORE INSANITY AT THE CELLaR.]([http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=14998](http://cellar.org/iotd.php?threadid=14998)" title="offshore cowboy)