On Feb 1, 9:54*am, "Larry L" wrote:

I was reminded of a brief moment last year. * I was deep into the Ranch and

Never fished the Ranch. Just the public section. Since moving to the
SF Bay area have not been back to eastern Sierras. Last time on Hot
Creek I had an interesting encounter. I was just swinging by there
for about half hour on the way home. Not in the mood to stalk and
crouch I reached into the flybox for a big ugly. Turk's tarantula.
Perfect. Let's look for a dumb fish. I began walking and smacking
that fly as hard as I could. I came upon an underwater ledge where a
group of suckers were doing their thing - sucking. There were so many
of them it was disgusting. As I made my next cast a 20+ brown emerges
from within that writhing mass of suckers and pounds my fly. I stood
there paralyzed as the big brown spit the fly and disappeared back
below the sucker orgy.

Mu