Most recently a turtle, it had heavy line and a steel leader wrapped around it and a pectoral fin and was then hooked into the fin. It was circling oddly, closer, closer, until we realized the issue. Not sure if it was circling because that is all it could do or if it somehow wanted help, not trying to credit the poor reptile with any higher thought. In any case, my buddy took his line cutter and I grabbed the turtle and he also grabbed it to steady himself and cut the leader from the fin, the line fell away and the turtle immediately displayed it's desire to be free and we released it rather than wrestle it to work on the hook, the hook remained but I am sure it fell out of it's own accord later.
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