Troutnut Forum > Fly Fishing Discussion > And then I hooked the friggin bat, Page 3
| GONZO | July 6th, 2007, 2:36 pm | |
| "Bear Swamp," PA Posts: 876 | Nothing terribly dramatic: an obnoxious boater on Skaneateles Lake ran over my line leading to a brief reel-smoking run, and my backcast hooked a truck while fishing from a bridge as a youth (similar result). | |
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| Martinlf | July 6th, 2007, 2:42 pm | |
| Palmyra PA Posts: 908 | I understand that fly fishers at a specific canal in Miami regularly have the opportunity to hook vehicles casting for peacock bass. That does sound like a good way to absolutley melt a drag. | |
| Louis Is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? A trout! that is more sharp-sighted than any hawk . . . and more watchful and timorous than your high-mettled merlin is bold! --Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler | ||
| JOHNW | July 7th, 2007, 4:54 pm | |
| Chambersburg, PA Posts: 162 | Louis, The idea of a fly angler hooking a vehicle that is casting for peacock bass has got to top the list in mental images. Gonzo, The steer was most definatly NOT fair hooked, however picture a 6" jitterbug haning from the neck of a very irate steer. Does getting knocked silly by a fishing partners back cast count for any thing? To this day I will not stand in the boat to fish with my Dad. | |
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| GONZO | July 7th, 2007, 5:13 pm | |
| "Bear Swamp," PA Posts: 876 | John, I think it was Shawn who was questioning the legitimacy of your "big catch." I'm glad to know it wasn't fair-hooked. Personally, I think that large bovines munching on bass plugs are one of the signs of the Apocalypse! As for your question about getting knocked around by a fishing partner's casting, that's pretty common, but when that partner is your dad, there might be more going on . . . . ;) That does sound like a good way to absolutely melt a drag. You know, Louis, the more I think about it, that may explain why the rivets eventually fell out of my beloved old Marquis Multiplier. Here I was blaming it on catching too many steelhead on a click-and-pawl reel, but I think the boat may have started its decline. (Hardy lovers, don't weep for me; its all fixed and good as new.) | |
| JOHNW | July 7th, 2007, 7:07 pm | |
| Chambersburg, PA Posts: 162 | Sorry Gonzo, "my bad" as the kids say! JW | |
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| GONZO | July 7th, 2007, 8:21 pm | |
| "Bear Swamp," PA Posts: 876 | Not at all, John. Some people might be offended by being confused with Shawn, but I am not one of them. :) PS--Speaking of signs of the Apocalypse, I just noticed my number of posts! [666] I think now would be a good time to shut up and go fishing for about a week. (I should probably try to catch a few fish before the End of Days is upon us!) :{ | |
| Martinlf | July 7th, 2007, 8:50 pm | |
| Palmyra PA Posts: 908 | John, I always love it when a non-English major picks up on one of my misplaced modifiers. But beware, as Gonzo can attest, I don't get mad; I get even. | |
| Louis Is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? A trout! that is more sharp-sighted than any hawk . . . and more watchful and timorous than your high-mettled merlin is bold! --Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler | ||
| JOHNW | July 8th, 2007, 9:52 am | |
| Chambersburg, PA Posts: 162 | Louis, "But beware, as Gonzo can attest, I don't get mad; I get even." You shouldn't have to wait very long for that opportunity. Cuz like I went to skool and they always teld me that my participles wuz dangling. The guidance dude even suggested I try some meds because I's was always using the wrong tense, and then he gotst upset when I axxed him if that was legal. ;) JW | |
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| Martinlf | July 8th, 2007, 6:19 pm | |
| Palmyra PA Posts: 908 | JohnW, I see that you, like Gonzo, don't play fair. You have now preempted any attack I could have made and I just have to sit and take it. | |
| Louis Is it not an art to deceive a trout with an artificial fly? A trout! that is more sharp-sighted than any hawk . . . and more watchful and timorous than your high-mettled merlin is bold! --Izaak Walton The Compleat Angler | ||
| Wbranch | July 22nd, 2007, 8:23 pm | |
| Starlight PA Posts: 230 | I like to use 7X when I go after bats. Since they are a lot smaller than the trout I catch I like to give them a figthing chance to escape. I catch a couple Sulfurs and affix them to a hook with a bit of Zap-A-Gap then as it begins to get dark I just let the wind have it's way with my leader and as it flips this way and that way the bats home in on my treat and we duke it out to until the best mammal wins. | |
| West Branch & main stem fly fisher for forty-two years. | ||
| IEatimago | July 23rd, 2007, 3:05 am | |
| Spring Mills, PA Posts: 99 | see your not the only one! http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u54/Jasonbaker_album/DSCF9110.jpg | |
| Jmd123 | August 7th, 2007, 11:26 pm | |
| Posts: 148 | After many years of being around bats while night fishing, I finally hooked one on the Rifle some years ago. I was finishing a good night, three trout caught and released, and I was heading downstream towards my car and floating a dry fly in front of me on the way down. I didn't hear a thing but I suddenly felt something tugging on my line. Low and behold, I turned on my light and here's this little bat flying around attached to it. Oh great, how am I going to get this little bugger off without getting bitten? Fortunately, the fly was caught in the web of skin between the hind limbs and the bat had already worked a small hole around it (and just about chewed everything off the fly itself). I laid the little critter on the trunk of my car, pulled out an old Army wool blanket I kept for emergencies (such as this, I guess!), covered the bat except for the hooked area, popped it out with no problem, and the bat flew away when I took off the blanket. Three trout AND a bat, caught and released! Concerning invertebrates, I once had a big fishing spider (3" legspan!) jump off a log to get a close look at a White Wulff I was floating by. I felt rather complimented! A few weeks ago I did mange to foul-hook a teenager who made the mistake of walking behing my backcast. He didn't put up much of a fight - he just wanted the hook out! His parents were rather amused (though I was extremely apologetic) and we released him unharmed. As far as "unusual" fish species on the fly rod go, I hooked and lost about a 2-foot spotted gar in the San Marcos River in TX a couple of years ago - talk about a fight! I also caught two channel cats - one on a small deer-hair popper, the other on a favorite streamer pattern - in a stocked but mostly unfished pond down there. I would be curious to hear other folks' stories about unusual fish catches on the fly rod. By the way, I am a recent arrival to this site and I am most enjoying it! It's wonderful to trade stories and advice with so many like-minded people. Jonathon | |
| Shawnny3 | August 7th, 2007, 11:35 pm | |
| Pleasant Gap, PA Posts: 541 | Welcome, Jon. I think you'll be well received on this site despite missing the 'h'. We have a pretty forgiving group. And let me second the motion you made in the other thread about warmwater fishing. I've had many fond memories fishing warm water with a flyrod, and I think everyone who frequents Spring Creek ought to take it up. -Shawn | |
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| Wbranch | August 8th, 2007, 11:38 am | |
| Starlight PA Posts: 230 | Many years ago on Armstrong Spring Creek I hooked, and fought, a muskrat. He put up a good fight but on 6x Gladding it didn't last very long. Two years ago on the Missouri River near Holter Dam my buddy and I were fishing the tail of "The Million Dollar Riffle". It was near dark and my friend let out a holler and said he hooked a big fish. He actually fought this "fish" for about ten minutes and had to walk into the shore area to net it. All of a sudden he let out a hoop and holler and yelled "holy crap, I landed a muskrat". He later told me he was about to take the hook out of his "fish" when he saw a mouthful of sharp white teeth and recognized he had landed a mammal. I know this sounds preposterous but it is a true story. | |
| West Branch & main stem fly fisher for forty-two years. | ||
| Wiflyfisher | August 8th, 2007, 2:37 pm | |
| Wisconsin Posts: 206 | On the Delaware, above the Junction Pool I hooked a 2-3 foot long eel of some sort. He fought like crazy and broke my tippet, which was fine with me. I didn't know those long, slender guys were even in there until then. | |
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| Wbranch | August 8th, 2007, 3:45 pm | |
| Starlight PA Posts: 230 | Do you think you might of snagged a lamprey eel? The ones with the circular mouths filled with triangle shaped teeth. There are many of them there, to spawn, in May and June. | |
| West Branch & main stem fly fisher for forty-two years. | ||
| Wiflyfisher | August 8th, 2007, 4:07 pm | |
| Wisconsin Posts: 206 | It was May during the E. dorothea hatch. No, he sucked it in with his big lips! (Okay, just kidding. Yes, I snagged him when I saw a swirl right where my fly was.) I also once had a very large snapping turtle grab my bass popper. He hissed, snorted and spit water at me. All of a sudden he bit down and crushed the fly and the hook, then disappeared. I waited for him to come and climb in my canoe and eat me. Luckily I was wrong. :) | |
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| CaseyP | April 4th, 2008, 1:05 pm | |
| Arlington, VA/ Mercersburg, PA Posts: 254 | so you can't cast in the house because the cats will chase the end of the line, even if the ceilings in these McMansions are high enough ...so i went outside and was doing pretty well with the 8 wt, using a few inches of white cotton kitchen string as a fly. along comes a mockingbird, swoops at the fly, and lands on the ground next it. she follows it some distance as i strip it in, pecking at it and shaking it. every time i cast, she does this, for about 10 minutes. even when a passerby stopped to inquire about whether they were biting, she kept going for the string. told him i was starting an aviary... | |
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| Shawnny3 | April 5th, 2008, 8:04 am | |
| Pleasant Gap, PA Posts: 541 | told him i was starting an aviary... Well said. -Shawn | |
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| Jjlyon01 | April 5th, 2008, 9:30 am | |
| SUNY Environmental Science and Forestry, Syracuse Posts: 39 | Once as I was fishing the Battenkill above Rexleigh bridge with a caddis emerger I felt a tremendous tug on my line. I fought the big brownie for about 5 minutes and when I finally pulled the brown onto the shore it turned out not to be the brown that I had imagined, rather it was about 10 pounds of fur with a flat tail and buck teeth. Let me tell you this beaver was not enthusiastic about the way we had met that afternoon. He began to growl and hiss at me and when I went to take the fly from its tail it almost latched on to my hand. I then decided I'd rather keep fishing and not go to see my local medicine man so I clipped the line and waited for the beaver to return to the water. | |
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