Vietnam: Angler Hooks a Big Catch, Then Hooks a Power Line [NSFL]

A guy fishing at a pond in Vietnam feels a tug on his line and gets excited, thinking he’s landed a big one. He never finds out what it was, because lifting the rod swings the tip straight into a power cable running over the water and that’s the end of him.

Fishing rods and live wires really don’t belong in the same frame.

Video 1

The empty pond, filmed from a fence-line angle

Video 2

Before and after, with nothing in between

Clip one is just a static CCTV-style shot looking down over a fence at the pond itself, a greenhouse net overhead, a small figure standing way off in the distance doing nothing in particular. Normally you’d skip right past a shot like this, but it’s the pond where it happens.

Clip two is the real one. It opens with a man crouched at the water’s edge laying out his gear on a dirt mound, a drink can, a little bowl, a red pouch, a blue tube, before he stands up to fish. The footage then cuts straight to him face down and motionless on a dirt path nearby, one sandal knocked off, a few bystanders (one shirtless) just standing around him doing nothing useful. The clip never shows the actual jolt, just the before and the after, which somehow makes it worse.

What the Thread Said

The few comments that stayed on topic asked the obvious: who fishes under a power line? One pointed out that modern carbon fiber rods conduct electricity way better than the old glass ones, which is apparently a known hazard and part of why these stories keep popping up. One guy just wanted to know if the fish got away okay.

Vietnam’s Recurring Fishing Rod Electrocutions

The guy in this clip is not the first angler in Vietnam to die from a rod that found a power line.

• June 2026: a man born in 1988 died in Bac Ninh province after his cast rod hit a high-voltage line over the pond.
• February 2020: a 38-year-old died in Quang Nam after his rod touched a line overhead while he reeled in.
• Carbon fiber rods, now the standard gear, conduct electricity well, which is why fishing near power lines keeps killing people.
• Vietnam logs about 450-500 electrocutions a year, with 350-400 of them fatal, per the labor ministry’s injury data.

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