An Eye for an Eye

Dear Professor, Hello. -I was fishing off Ardmore, on the coast of Ireland around 1976 with my Australian cousin. The seals had chased the mackerel in so instead of casting our rods and just waiting, as we'd normally do, we cast the rods and immediately reeled them (the rods) in; called strawk hauling (sp?), knowing that the German sprat ('a metal bait that swivels and glimmers when drawn through water') would affix itself to something, given the high number of fish who were just jumping out of the water. Sure enough it did, catching the eye of a mackerel. Being small (the fish) my cousin carefully removed the eye which was 'lost' (of no further use) and throwing the fish back, he affixed the eye to the hook as 'live bait' (not a pretend bait, like the synthetic German Sprat). After a short period, my cousin got another bite, the same fish (now one eyed) had baited himself on his own eye. Uroborus. My cousin was a bit of an idiot back then but I'm confident that played no part in the story. Kind Regards, Martin.