Flying Fish...

This was from Winter Break, and the story behind it has quite a bit of physics involved. Me and my friend were fishing on the Big Island and she caught the first fish. Since the fish wanted to get away with the bait, it tried to swim away. This caused tension in the fishing line (considering it was only a bamboo pole). However, the force with which she pulled the pole was great enough to allow it to overcome rotational inertia and begin rotating (clockwise in this picture). This also made the fish, still attached to the bait, go in a circular motion (just like the ball and string exercise in class). However, it couldn't hold on long enough, and ended up flying in a tangent and back into the water on the other side of the rocks. In the end, she lost a tasty snack, but she gained an understanding of tension, rotational inertia, and tangential vectors.