A Stranger's Funny Story

I chat with people around the apartment complex, and get some pretty interesting or funny stories. I've shared mine with them and they find them hilarious. So today, I wish to share one of theirs:

This old man, maybe 69(?) was sitting on a bench and I decided to take a break as well. I tell him about that girlfriend story, and he laughs, and when I ask him if he has anything funny to tell, I get the story about how he went fishing and caught a bear.

He had gone salmon fishing, and brought his rod with him. Then said that he cast out his line and hooked a big salmon on the hook. But a bear came out and got a hold of it, pulled up on the rod and I suppose he hooked it too. When he realized what happened, he threw his rod and said this: "You can have it!"

I could not help myself we just both laughed it up, though It's hard to believe that happened, but I don't doubt it either.