A man has created an unlikely bond with a wild FISH and the pair 'meet' every summer at the same spot.<br /><br />Rex Colubra, 40, made friends with the fresh water small mouth bass while on a dive in September 2021.<br /><br />The bizarre encounter ended with the pair becoming friends and Rex even named the fish Elvis.<br /><br />The pair now see each other every year when Rex travels to the lake where Elvis lives.<br /><br />Print-shop worker and animal enclosure maker, Rex, 40, has taught Elvis a call that it will respond to and says his 'friend' now gets jealous if other fish get too close to him.<br /><br />He said: "I even taught him a call. I will do a gulping grunt sound with my throat and he'll come find me.<br /><br />"Elvis will literally just fight other fish if they get too close to me to keep them away."<br /><br />Speaking about their first encounter, Rex said: "It was like any other dive I was checking out a new spot and all these fish where coming up to me. <br /><br />"I noticed one was sticking closer than the rest. He wasn't scared even when I got out. He stuck close to the surface in the shallows."<br /><br />He returned to the same spot two weeks later and the fish recognised him and approached him.<br /><br />Rex, from north Wisconsin, USA, said: "Two weeks later, I returned and fed him some crawfish. <br /><br />"He's completely obsessed with me. He follows me around and just stares me in the eyes."<br /><br />Rex recognises Elvis because of a scar the fish has on his face, most likely from being caught by a fisherman.<br /><br />Since the two met, there have been a couple of scares. <br /><br />Last year, it took Rex a while to find Elvis and he feared the fish had died.<br /><br />Rex, who refuses to reveal which lake Rex lives in to protect him from fishermen, said: "Of course, I would be sad if he had been caught. He's my friend.<br /><br />"There's not much I can do to protect him. It's the risk he runs every year.<br /><br />"I don't like sport fishing. I think it's immoral. If you are going to catch a fish you should eat it and not just put a hook in it."
