Wolfgang wrote:
"jeff" wrote in message
news:cDa7g.7097$8q.5507@dukeread08...

Joe McIntosh wrote:

"Mike Makela" ten.tsacmoc@alekamm wrote in message
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Just a quick one..


They were keying on one of the miniscule
midges which I never figured out despite trying at least 15 different
flavors. Thinking they were taking a size 26 red spinner which I saw
frequently float by (and no match in my box). Eventually the evening
hatch

Joe in amazement---you frequently saw size 26 spinners floating by !!
damm
Mike you make this guy feel old--I've given up fishing with anything
smaller
than size 16 and don"t use them in fast water !!!

Rough evening here.
fishing out of kayak around 5pm--four weight and small yellow popper (
maybe
size 10 } got a few hits and two good hook up on bass but lost both
half
way in--think they spit out hook as I just did not set it hard
enough---too
much slack in fly line --will learn to use Dave Whitlock's direct to the
water presentation.
So switched to spinning rig and hooked a mid size bass on small plug
with
duel treble hooks--- as I tried to pick him up by lower jaw [ per tv
shows ]
he leaped and two hooks caught my left index finger. -

Two hours later doctor at local med center dug them out.
reminds me of Jeff's story where he got hooked , drank for two hours
then Indian doctor dug out hook with comment --" next time you might
want to debarb hook before you fish!"
I had no chance to drink and after long wait my doctor [from Egypt I
think ] simply said--" this is going to hurt a little bit."

Danl--please tell Cindy I will always carry my hook removable kit in
future !



at least your guy was thoughtful enough to warn you about the pain... my
guy was ****ed he had to be on call and then actually got called. he
enjoyed my pain.

btw, in the latest of my fishing miscues, i was bitten by a snake while
jim and i were pulling the gheenoe over one of the grassy banks at
mattamuskeet.never saw it, but had a sharp pain, blood spurted from one of
the holes. didn't know what it was at the time, but when i got home i
discovered two fang holes in the shin about 6 inches above ankle-high.
probably a small copperhead... but, anyhow, um...perhaps you should add a
snake-bite kit too...


A snake?! A poisonous copperhead?! Good God, man! Don't leave us hanging
like this! The snake.......did it live?

Wolfgang



ah, great minds...both jim and rachel expressed deep concern about the
snake as well. i suspect it's got a sore tooth at least...

jeff (fishin with new toxins in my blood)