Early Birthday Present-- Benchside Reference

"Guy Thornberg" wrote
snip it gives me
nightmares of how i get intertwined into the materials being tied to the
hook
Guy

That reminded me of when I was fishing the Mcolumne in California.
It was a large pool with an eddy that danced my dry fly around and
around and for some reason I decided my line needed straightening.
I was standing on a large flat rock, so I stripped off several feet of
line which coiled around my feet. I looked up just in time to see a
huge Brown sip my fly and head for the bottom. I managed to set
the hook, but also managed to entangle my feet in the line. To make
matters worse the trout headed straight for me. By the time I got
untangled the trout had broken the leader by catching it on a rock.
I had nightmares that night
Ernie.