Maine Fishermen ‘5 Miles Off Coast’ Reel-In Catch Of A Lifetime – A LIVE DEER

HARRINGTON, ME. (THECOUNT) — Just when you had thought you’d heard it all, comes this story, and it’s no fish tale – it actually happened.

A Maine fisherman hauled in a most unusual catch while trapping lobster about 5 miles off the coast – a live deer.

Ren Dorr says he was setting traps when he saw a young deer Monday morning. He says the deer had given up swimming and was being carried farther offshore.

Dorr and his crew hauled the 100-pound buck aboard.

Having a wild animal in a confined space could be trouble. But Dorr told the Bangor Daily News that the deer was so tuckered out that he “laid right down like a dog,” reports KRDO.

Dorr says it took a half-hour to return to Harrington, where the deer was set free.

He says that he has seen deer swimming before but that this was different.

Dorr says that if he and his crew hadn’t intervened, the deer would have been “a goner.”

Geo quick facts: Harrington is a town in Washington County, Maine, United States. The population was 1,004 at the 2010 census. Harrington is an old seafaring and shipbuilding village – Wikipedia.