Introducing myself...
 

Larry L wrote:
"AlanPortsmouth" wrote in message
...

I've just joined and thought I would introduce myself via a funny
story...



First Welcome .... but, now would be the smartest time to leave and not
look back ( good advice, trust me )


Second, I have caught gulls twice that were eating Green Drake duns on the
Henry's Fork and grabbed my pattern. I've had them take my fly several
other times, but manage to not get hooked.

Actually, now that I think about it, a Larry tip for some waters. Watch
the birds, they too like the bugs and some waters ( HFork prime example )
have very distinct mico-habitats. Thus you may be someplace with zero
happening and a couple hundred yards away is an epic hatch, if you see birds
working, stooping to the surface ... mosey on over, it may be worth the walk





one of the not too secret secrets on the madison... it's true there,
where the birds are on the insects (esp during the salmonfly hatch), as
well as in the ocean where the birds key on bait and larger fish busting
up on bait near the surface. the birds know. i'm always amazed how
quickly the discovery of fish by a single sea bird will attract hundreds
to the area in an otherwise bland oceanscape. they come out of nowhere
and suddenly.

Introducing myself...
 

"rw" wrote in message
m...
Milo Milo wrote:
bats rely on sound vibrations not site n thats why sometimes they
attacka lure or baits my problem this summer with the low waters in the
carolina mtns was catching snakes.

What kinds of snakes?

Carolina mtns, sounds like the venomous cottonmouth water moccasins.
-tom

Introducing myself...
 

Tom Nakashima wrote:

"rw" wrote in message
m...

Milo Milo wrote:

bats rely on sound vibrations not site n thats why sometimes they
attacka lure or baits my problem this summer with the low waters in the
carolina mtns was catching snakes.


What kinds of snakes?


Carolina mtns, sounds like the venomous cottonmouth water moccasins.

Nope. That would be the venomous cottonmouth water moccasin
copperhead timber rattler black mambas.


Chuck Vance (not to mention all the grabber-biter-eaters and such)

Introducing myself...
 

"Conan The Librarian" wrote in message
...
Tom Nakashima wrote:

"rw" wrote in message
m...

Milo Milo wrote:

bats rely on sound vibrations not site n thats why sometimes they
attacka lure or baits my problem this summer with the low waters in the
carolina mtns was catching snakes.


What kinds of snakes?


Carolina mtns, sounds like the venomous cottonmouth water moccasins.

Nope. That would be the venomous cottonmouth water moccasin copperhead
timber rattler black mambas.

I don't doubt your assertion that there are plenty of those around......but
are you sure they're echo-locators?

Chuck Vance (not to mention all the grabber-biter-eaters and such)

Ooh! I remember those. Icky. :(

Wolfgang

Introducing myself...
 

"Tom Nakashima" wrote

What kinds of snakes?

Carolina mtns, sounds like the venomous cottonmouth water moccasins.
-tom

actually, there are no moccasins west of the fall line, in the eastern
piedmont.
now, various rattlesnakes and copperheads, sure...

wayno

Introducing myself...
 

Tom Nakashima wrote:
"rw" wrote in message
m...

Milo Milo wrote:

bats rely on sound vibrations not site n thats why sometimes they
attacka lure or baits my problem this summer with the low waters in the
carolina mtns was catching snakes.


What kinds of snakes?


Carolina mtns, sounds like the venomous cottonmouth water moccasins.
-tom



not in the mountains... copperheads or water snakes more likely...lots
of them up there. some rattlers too. but no cottonmouths. they are
around the swamps and lakes along the coast.

jeff

Introducing myself...
 

"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
...

"Tom Nakashima" wrote

What kinds of snakes?

Carolina mtns, sounds like the venomous cottonmouth water moccasins.
-tom

actually, there are no moccasins west of the fall line, in the eastern
piedmont.
now, various rattlesnakes and copperheads, sure...

wayno Joe the elder offers back a few years ago when I was allowed to call
myself INDIAN JOE I remember in some steak house on a Friday night while
we were out after a hard day of claving you met a snakey type of thing-
seems to me she had a deep white throat but she was not interested in our
bait--at least on friday night after evening manhattans that is what I
think I remember
There are no mossicans in western NC. but I can assure you there is one big
timber rattler under a bush by the second falls of Slickrock!

Introducing myself...
 

Joe McIntosh wrote:
"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
...

"Tom Nakashima" wrote


What kinds of snakes?

Carolina mtns, sounds like the venomous cottonmouth water moccasins.
-tom

actually, there are no moccasins west of the fall line, in the eastern
piedmont.

now, various rattlesnakes and copperheads, sure...

wayno Joe the elder offers back a few years ago when I was allowed to call
myself INDIAN JOE I remember in some steak house on a Friday night while
we were out after a hard day of claving you met a snakey type of thing-
seems to me she had a deep white throat but she was not interested in our
bait--at least on friday night after evening manhattans that is what I
think I remember

There are no mossicans in western NC. but I can assure you there is one big
timber rattler under a bush by the second falls of Slickrock!



I would occasionally catch eels when I was a kid, fishing with bait for
white and yellow perch out of my little rowboat in the Chesapeake Bay.
What a freaking mess those *******s were, forming a writhing ball of
slimey filth around the hook. It was a challenge to cut the heads off
without getting bit.

Little did I know at the time that they make great sushi -- Unagi it's
called. I'd never even heard of sushi at the time, and not for many
years afterward. Instead, they became crab bait.

Always order Unagi or Anago (another kind of eel) when you're at a good
sushi bar, but never order them for carry-out. They should be warm right
out of the toaster oven. Don't use the wasabi with them.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

Introducing myself...
 

Was wondering if anyone else has had anything else really unusual
attached to the end of their line!
--
AlanPortsmouth

I have caught lots of things other than fish. Birds, bats, snakes, dragon
flies, frogs etc.
Ernie

Introducing myself...
 

"Ernie" wrote in message
. net...

Was wondering if anyone else has had anything else really unusual
attached to the end of their line!
--
AlanPortsmouth

I have caught lots of things other than fish. Birds, bats, snakes, dragon
flies, frogs etc.
Ernie

Yeah, but have ya ever caught an actual dragon? Now that would be special!

God to see ya back, Ernie.

Op