27-11-2006, 06:46 PM
Yeah, I guess the smaller octopus are not such a worry <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':th' /> I am a bit suspicious of all octopus though, I had to fight a big one for a crayfish I'd caught one time while SCUBA diving, and the way it flowed across the bottom, and grabbed anything I put near it (hands, knife, crayfish etc) really made me wary. I reckon they are 10x smarter than squid.
My dad told me a story years ago of a big octopus that grabbed his leg at night while he was spearing crabs in a rock pool. He was worried it was going to pull him under! So he speared it....and speared it.....and speared it some more, until eventually he could pull it out of the water. He said it had a body the size of a basketball, and when it was stretched out the legs had a span of well over 2m. <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':woot:' />
My dad told me a story years ago of a big octopus that grabbed his leg at night while he was spearing crabs in a rock pool. He was worried it was going to pull him under! So he speared it....and speared it.....and speared it some more, until eventually he could pull it out of the water. He said it had a body the size of a basketball, and when it was stretched out the legs had a span of well over 2m. <img src='http://www.squidfish.net/forums/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif' class='bbc_emoticon' alt=':woot:' />