HANLEY—A man fishing at the Brightwater Reservoir west of Hanley has quite a fishing tale to tell after he reeled in a bomb last Sunday.

Saskatoon RCMP, at about 7:20 p.m. Sunday, June 3, got a call from a fisherman after he had hooked and landed what he thought may be a homemade bomb.

RCMP attended the call and after looking at the device, cleared and secured the area and called in the RCMP Explosives Disposal Unit, said RCMP spokesman Cpl. Rob King.

The bomb squad examined the device and determined it was some type of homemade bomb. The device was neutralized at the scene and police declared the area safe once again for fishing.

King said RCMP cannot give any details about the device or how it was “neutralized”.

“We don’t want the general public knowing the details,” he said.

How it came to be in the water is still under investigation.

While King said he doesn’t know what the man was fishing for, a bomb was most likely not the intended prey.

He said this is the first time a device like this has been found in a body of water.

“It’s never happened before,” King said.

Last week, the incident was the talk of the town in Hanley, on the street, at the coffee shop and Facebook.

If the angler lives around Hanley, he doesn’t frequent coffee row.

“Everybody in town knows about it, but nobody knows who caught it,” said Hanley’s town administrator Darice Carlson. “He doesn’t go for coffee.”

Police would like any witnesses or anyone with information about explosives being used in the area to contact them.