A fisherman almost died after a Dover sole he had caught jumped down his throat. His life was saved by paramedics after the fish wriggled free of his hand and choked him. 
 
 The unnamed 28-year-old's life was in jeopardy after he stopped breathing for three minutes after the six-inch long fish stuck in his throat. 
 
 It caused a complete obstruction of the man's airways and his face turned blue after the incident on Boscombe Pier in Bournemouth, Dorset. 
 
 His friends, scared for his life, rang 999 and tried to give him CPR while paramedics sped to the scene. 
 
 They arrived in just two minutes but by that time the patient had gone into cardiac arrest and had stopped breathing. 
 
 Paramedics used forceps to grab hold the fish's tail they could see down the man's throat. 
 
 They made five attempts to pull the fish free but the thwarted by its barb and gills which were stuck in the angler's throat. 
 
 They finally yanked it free on the sixth go but by that time the casualty had stopped breathing for three minutes. 
 
 The angler was revived in the ambulance and after being treated and checked over in hospital was allowed home having made a full recovery. ||||| Image copyright Getty Images Image caption The six-inch (14cm) Dover sole (not pictured) wriggled out of the man's hand and jumped into his mouth 
 
 An angler had to be resuscitated after accidentally swallowing a fish he had just caught. 
 
 The man was kissing the Dover sole in celebration of his catch when the six-inch (14cm) fish wriggled out of his hand and jumped into his mouth, a friend said. 
 
 The 28-year-old stopped breathing and suffered a cardiac arrest at the scene on Boscombe Pier, Bournemouth. 
 
 Paramedics managed to remove the fish with forceps in an ambulance. 
 
 Image copyright Paul Southgate Image caption The man had been fishing at Boscombe Pier, Bournemouth 
 
 Ambulance worker Matt Harrison said: "It was clear that we needed to get the fish out or this patient was not going to survive the short journey to Royal Bournemouth Hospital. 
 
 "I was acutely aware that I only had one attempt at getting this right as if I lost grip or a piece broke off and it slid further out of sight then there was nothing more that we could have done to retrieve the obstruction." 
 
 Mr Harrison said the fish's barbs and gills became stuck but he eventually succeeded in extracting it in one piece. 
 
 He said it was the "most bizarre" call-out he had ever attended. 
 
 Members of Boscombe Pier Sea Anglers performed CPR on their friend before the arrival of emergency crews at about 23:00 BST on 5 October. 
 
 Ian Cowie from the group said: "He was kissing the fish when it jumped down his throat. It's a tradition to kiss your first catch." 
 
 Paramedics managed to restart the unnamed man's heart at the pier after working on him for three minutes. 
 
 Mr Harrison said: "We're all so glad the patient has no lasting effects from his cardiac arrest, which could so easily have had such a tragic and devastating outcome."
– A bizarre fishing incident in England left a sole survivor—a 28-year-old fisherman who almost died when a Dover sole he had caught jumped down his throat when he kissed it. With the 6-inch fish stuck in his throat, the man stopped breathing and had a cardiac arrest on the pier in Bournemouth, the Telegraph reports. Paramedic Matt Harrison says after arriving at the scene, he knew that he had to get the fish out or the man would not survive the short journey to the hospital. "I was acutely aware that I only had one attempt at getting this right as if I lost grip or a piece broke off and it slid further out of sight then there was nothing more that we could have done to retrieve the obstruction," he tells the BBC. Harrison says he managed to dislodge the sole's tail with forceps and get it out of the man's throat, though the fish's barbs and gills kept getting stuck on the way out. "I have never attended a more bizarre incident and don't think I ever will," he says. He says paramedics were able to restart the man's heart after three minutes and he will suffer no lasting effects from the incident, "which could so easily have had such a tragic and devastating outcome." The man's friends say it is a local tradition to kiss your first catch of the day. (This Australian fisherman was lucky to survive after a great white shark jumped into his boat.)