Fish Story

As we were driving over to Fishing Creek yesterday, a friend told me
he had recently landed a trout, hooked on one fly of a two-fly rig.

When he released it, he felt a tug on his rod, and found that fish had
immediately grabbed the other fly.

Has anyone else ever had this exerience?

PS: The fishing was poor. Neither of us caught a fish.

vince

vincent p. norris wrote:
As we were driving over to Fishing Creek yesterday, a friend told me
he had recently landed a trout, hooked on one fly of a two-fly rig.

When he released it, he felt a tug on his rod, and found that fish had
immediately grabbed the other fly.

Has anyone else ever had this exerience?

PS: The fishing was poor. Neither of us caught a fish.

vince

No, but I fished Mud Run for three hours one morning without touching a
fish. Then tied on a cinnamon ant, and when I released it from my hand
a trout grabbed when it hit the water next to my right hip.

Jeff

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vincent p. norris wrote:
As we were driving over to Fishing Creek yesterday, a friend told me
he had recently landed a trout, hooked on one fly of a two-fly rig.

When he released it, he felt a tug on his rod, and found that fish had
immediately grabbed the other fly.

Has anyone else ever had this exerience?

PS: The fishing was poor. Neither of us caught a fish.

vince

No, but I fished Mud Run for three hours one morning without touching a
fish. Then tied on a cinnamon ant, and when I released it from my hand
a trout grabbed when it hit the water next to my right hip.

Jeff


When walking around a pool in the Gila River many years ago I was holding my
rod out over the water to keep it away from all the overhanging brush. A
10" largemouth jumped completely out of the water to take the popping bug
dangling from the end of my line about a foot above the water.


--
Bob La Londe
http://www.YumaBassMan.com

"Bob La Londe"


When walking around a pool in the Gila River many years ago I was holding
my
rod out over the water to keep it away from all the overhanging brush. A
10" largemouth jumped completely out of the water to take the popping bug
dangling from the end of my line about a foot above the water.

Bob La Londe
http://www.YumaBassMan.com

I was fishing a grasshopper pattern (never caught anything on it that day)
and was casting to a likely looking rock. Let the hopper land on the rock
and then drop it gently into the water - right? I'll be danged if a
smallish trout didn't try to get that hopper while it was on the rock!
Reminded me of the way killer whales snatch baby seals off the beach.

john

I caught this war-mouth a couple weeks ago in a creek just down the road and
he'd taken the mosquito with considerable elacrity, sucked her so deep that
I couldn't get the fly out without doing serious damage so I cut the fly
off. Too pretty a fish to keep out of the water very long.
He was two bends downstream swimming away before I can finish calling out
"grow big".

An hour or so later and a good quarter mile downstream, I'm working a
wooly-bugger in fading light for the last fish of the day and I'm doing some
stretching and walking to untangle the leader from the rocks and bring that
last fish in. It's a classic, easy to release, corner of the mouth hook-up
and I happen to look down his gullet and there's my damned mosquito still
secure in his throat. I thought for second that I might be justified in
digging around his craw to recover the first fly, and if he died, well that
just might be eliminating some stupid genes from the pool and it's been ages
since I cooked a fish I'd caught, but he was a particularly handsome fish
and fought a lot tougher than you'd have expected from his length.... Grow
big.

-Doc

A number of years ago I was attempting to teach my wife's cousin to
flyfish. We were on the Mascoma River in central NH, and the kid was a
tolal newbie to any type of fishing. I gad rigged him up with a 5 wt
glass rod, overlined with a 6 wt line to make short casting easy. I was
explaining the niceties of the roll cast to him, while he let his line,
with a Wooly Bugger attatched trail in the current. I told him to raise
his rod tip in preperation for the cast, when a 10" rainbow grabbed the
fly. I said, "There you go...just keep doing that".

Actually, the lessons continued, and he caught a couple more fish by
more conventional means that day. Next morning, he was "too tired" to
get up at 5:00, and that evening he balked at fishing until dark, ("too
many bugs"), and as far as I know, he never fished again.

George Adams
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A number of years ago I was attempting to teach my wife's cousin to
flyfish. We were on the Mascoma River in central NH, and the kid was a
tolal newbie to any type of fishing. I gad rigged him up with a 5 wt
glass rod, overlined with a 6 wt line to make short casting easy. I was
explaining the niceties of the roll cast to him, while he let his line,
with a Wooly Bugger attatched trail in the current. I told him to raise
his rod tip in preperation for the cast, when a 10" rainbow grabbed the
fly. I said, "There you go...just keep doing that".

Actually, the lessons continued, and he caught a couple more fish by
more conventional means that day. Next morning, he was "too tired" to
get up at 5:00, and that evening he balked at fishing until dark, ("too
many bugs"), and as far as I know, he never fished again.

George Adams
aka

Fly fishing would not be my first choice for a raw beginner. I think its
something a person draws themself into like some archane kinda zen thing.
It can be taught, but only to somebody who is truly interested in it.

Actually sounds like you did pretty good with it.


--
Bob La Londe
http://www.YumaBassMan.com

At the time, this guy was still trying to "find himself", and was on a
back to nature kick, wth flyfishing at the top of his list. He also
tried archery, with an eye toward bowhunting, but dropped that as well.
He has been through two wives and a few careers since, still trying to
find himself thirty years later. As far as I know he neither fishes nor
bowhunts.

I was fishing in a lake at about 7000 ft in the Sierras. Standing on a rock
about 10 feet from shore and I back casted and let it sit for a second,
as I moved the line forward I had a 15 inch rainbow on my fly!



"vincent p. norris" wrote in message
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As we were driving over to Fishing Creek yesterday, a friend told me
he had recently landed a trout, hooked on one fly of a two-fly rig.

When he released it, he felt a tug on his rod, and found that fish had
immediately grabbed the other fly.

Has anyone else ever had this exerience?

PS: The fishing was poor. Neither of us caught a fish.

vince

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vincent p. norris wrote:
As we were driving over to Fishing Creek yesterday, a friend told me
he had recently landed a trout, hooked on one fly of a two-fly rig.

When he released it, he felt a tug on his rod, and found that fish had
immediately grabbed the other fly.

Has anyone else ever had this exerience?

PS: The fishing was poor. Neither of us caught a fish.

vince

No, but I fished Mud Run for three hours one morning without touching a
fish. Then tied on a cinnamon ant, and when I released it from my hand
a trout grabbed when it hit the water next to my right hip.

Jeff


I had the same thing happen on CT's Natchaug, way,way back on the first time
I ever tied an ant to my leader........