Upper Creek Trip 07/22/07

SURPRISE!

Looks like a good outing, Op.
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Charlie...
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On Mon, 23 Jul 2007 19:12:57 -0400, "Opus--Mark H. Bowen"
wrote:

SURPRISE!

Oh man! Nice of him to park right out there in plain sight, I guess...

/daytripper (that'd just about do it for me right there ;-)

Opus--Mark H. Bowen wrote:
SURPRISE!




Spotted his brother up on Wilson's last month.

Ahem.

Drew

"Drew" wrote in message
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Opus--Mark H. Bowen wrote:
SURPRISE!

Spotted his brother up on Wilson's last month.

Ahem.

Drew

I was just a banded water snake, but I thought it was a copperhead at first
because of its camo markings. No threat, he simply dove into the stream
with a twitch of my rod tip.

Sorry I missed y'all, but I didn't get your email till late and had made
other plans.

Take care,

Mark

Opus--Mark H. Bowen wrote:
"Drew" wrote in message
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Opus--Mark H. Bowen wrote:
SURPRISE!
Spotted his brother up on Wilson's last month.

Ahem.

Drew

I was just a banded water snake, but I thought it was a copperhead at first
because of its camo markings. No threat, he simply dove into the stream
with a twitch of my rod tip.

Sorry I missed y'all, but I didn't get your email till late and had made
other plans.

Take care,

Mark



You missed an eventful trip. Had a 5 car pileup on the way. Arrive at
dark to find a tree down blocking our way to the site. Bear in camp.
Ended up camping down on the W. Good to see they had fixed the road from
the washout. We basically fished the A & W with the W kicking my old
tired ass. Caught several. Well Dan didn't. He couldn't stay out of the
rhodos with that loop he was putting in his back cast. Good eats, too.

Maybe next year.

Drew

"Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote

just a banded water snake, but I thought it was a copperhead at first
because of its camo markings. No threat, he simply dove into the stream
with a twitch of my rod tip.

although it's very surprising to me, i have only seen one poisonous
snake in the north carolina mountains, in more than thirty years of knocking
around the blue ridge and the smokies.
that was about twenty years ago, on wilson creek, near the private
water. pamlico jim and i were walking the streamside trail back to camp,
with him in front, trudging along, head down. as we approached a stream
crossing, there was a small tree right at the water line. at its base,
looking for all the world like a prototypical museum piece, curled and ready
to strike, was a copperhead about two feet long. jim was about ten feet
from him, headed straight for the tree. this dialogue followed:
me--"snake!!!!" jim--"where???" me--"right there!!!" jim, again--"where,
goddammit???" me--"right in front of you!!!"... he finally saw the snake,
stepped back, found some big rocks, and stoned the ******* to death.
i hate them, without exception.

yfitp
wayno

Wayne Harrison wrote:

"Opus--Mark H. Bowen" wrote

just a banded water snake, but I thought it was a copperhead at first

because of its camo markings. No threat, he simply dove into the stream
with a twitch of my rod tip.


although it's very surprising to me, i have only seen one poisonous
snake in the north carolina mountains, in more than thirty years of knocking
around the blue ridge and the smokies.
that was about twenty years ago, on wilson creek, near the private
water. pamlico jim and i were walking the streamside trail back to camp,
with him in front, trudging along, head down. as we approached a stream
crossing, there was a small tree right at the water line. at its base,
looking for all the world like a prototypical museum piece, curled and ready
to strike, was a copperhead about two feet long. jim was about ten feet
from him, headed straight for the tree. this dialogue followed:
me--"snake!!!!" jim--"where???" me--"right there!!!" jim, again--"where,
goddammit???" me--"right in front of you!!!"... he finally saw the snake,
stepped back, found some big rocks, and stoned the ******* to death.
i hate them, without exception.

yfitp
wayno



odd...i've seen too damn many, and got bit by one i didn't see, when
fishing, so i'm always kinda spooked. one trip about 20 years ago into
hazel creek in the summer with roy bailey, jim, and howard cummings,
there were lots of snakes...many in the tree branches overhanging the
stream. they all looked like copperheaded-rattlesnake-python-cobras to me.

now...i see snakes on almost every warm weather mountain fishing trip at
some point...

jeff

Wayne Harrison wrote:
he finally saw the snake,
stepped back, found some big rocks, and stoned the ******* to death.
i hate them, without exception.

That, IMO, is ****ed up.

--
Cut "to the chase" for my email address.

"rw" wrote in message
m...
Wayne Harrison wrote:
he finally saw the snake,
stepped back, found some big rocks, and stoned the ******* to death.
i hate them, without exception.

That, IMO, is ****ed up.

yeah, well, thank god that's my only flaw.

yfitons
wayno(i mean, it's not like i'm a republican, or a yankee, ya know...)