"MajorOz" wrote in message
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I like the idea implicit in their requirements that fly fishing doesn't
necessarily mean trout fishing.

cheers

oz

I was fishing off the Pacifica Pier years ago. There was a father who
brought his 8 year old daughter while he was fishing for Salmon. He rigged
up her small zebco 2.5' rod with pushbutton release and small silver hooks
so she could dangle the line from the pier and hook the live anchovies
below. All of a sudden one huge salmon took one of the anchovies from her
line. All we heard was a Ziiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiip as she screamed, we all
glanced over at the girl, then dead silence as the salmon ripped the rod
right out of her hands. It happned so fast, we were all pretty much
stunned. That would have been some major brownie points if she could have
landed that one.
-tom