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

A couple of years ago I was in a text conversation with my son who I
had taken out fishing a couple of times to teach him the basics - and
this was just after his first 'solo outing' with one of his friends...

The conversation went something like this...

Me: Did you have a good time?
Him: Yes
Me: Did you catch anything?
Him: Yes
Me: What did you catch?
Him: A duck!

Aparently mid cast a duck had flown by and picked his hook out of the
air. I must have spent a couple of hours giggling to myself thinking
about him reeling in a duck much like bringing a kite down... :-)

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


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

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Larry L wrote:
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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

I've noticed the same thing with bats during the Hex hatch.
The Hex hatch is notoriously unpredictable, one night there's
millions of them and the next night nada. But the bats seem to
know when they're going to come off. On those nights when you
notice bats everywhere during the early evening you can almost
bet the farm there's going to be a good Hex hatch that night.
You just have to be careful you catch fish and not bats.

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"Ken Fortenberry" wrote


The Hex hatch is notoriously unpredictable, one night there's
millions of them and the next night nada. But the bats seem to
know when they're going to come off. On those nights when you
notice bats everywhere during the early evening you can almost
bet the farm there's going to be a good Hex hatch that night.
You just have to be careful you catch fish and not bats.



I've only fished that big bug a few times and on two different streams ...
my impression is that "micro-habitat" is an understatment with them. I
remember a few nights on the Williamson when a stretch of river about 40
yards long was pumping out bugs that were interesting big fish ( the only
time I've honestly been spooled ) but they weren't anywhere else to be
found. I found the place because I stopped to air dogs ... pure luck ...


The Michigan Caddis Affair G is one thing I'd like to experience but
probably will never get to ;-(

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

A couple of years ago I was in a text conversation with my son who I
had taken out fishing a couple of times to teach him the basics - and
this was just after his first 'solo outing' with one of his friends...

The conversation went something like this...

Me: Did you have a good time?
Him: Yes
Me: Did you catch anything?
Him: Yes
Me: What did you catch?
Him: A duck!

Aparently mid cast a duck had flown by and picked his hook out of the
air. I must have spent a couple of hours giggling to myself thinking
about him reeling in a duck much like bringing a kite down... :-)

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

Welcome to ROFF, Alan.

Many people here have stories about hooking weird stuff: bats, frogs,
snakes, ears -- you name it, they've hooked it.

My most recent weird and awful hookup was a seagull last January on the
beach at Nexpa, Michoacan, Mexico. I was trying to free the spinfishing
lure (a floating deep diver) from the bird's foot, while it was biting
me nonstop. A big wave hit, threw me and the bird ass over elbows up the
beach, and drove a barbed treble hook deep into my thumb.

The bird survived with only a small hole in its left foot web.

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Larry L wrote:

I found the place because I stopped to air dogs ... pure luck ...

Airing dogs. That's something I can relate to. It's always a good excuse
to stop at an interesting place. :-)

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Hey,
Welcome aboard. Probably the most unusual thing I've caught was while
spin fishing(don't do much of that anymore, now all fly). My son and I
have a friendly competition. We count fish caught and subtract a fish
if you say you have one and don't land it. We give quality points for
different species and size. I knew I had something large when the rod
bent double. Didn't fight much bringing it in. It was a huge snapping
turtle, hooked in the neck. I took a deep breath and grabbed the
spinner bait and whipped it out of his neck. He didnt' bother taking
any of my fingers off and calmly returned to the depths. Best of all I
won the contest.Toddles,Frogge.


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Larry L wrote:

"AlanPortsmouth" wrote in message
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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 )

This is good advice. I hope that, before posting, you've lurked a bit
and seen just how mindlessly vicious, petulant and unkind many members
of this group can be.

Welcome, all the same!

Lazarus

(ps some of the worst of them, in the middle of interminable feuds,
will break off for a moment to give quite useful advice. Particularly
about fishing, which seems to be the only life-skill that any of us
know anything about)

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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

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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?

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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.

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"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

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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)

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"Conan The Librarian" wrote in message
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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

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"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

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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

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"Wayne Harrison" wrote in message
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"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!

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

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Was wondering if anyone else has had anything else really unusual
attached to the end of their line!
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I have caught lots of things other than fish. Birds, bats, snakes, dragon
flies, frogs etc.
Ernie

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"Ernie" wrote in message
. net...

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

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"Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote in message
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"Ernie" wrote in message
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Was wondering if anyone else has had anything else really unusual
attached to the end of their line!
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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

No real Dragons Mark, Thanks for the greetings.
Ernie