Jim, I had an incident like yours about 30 years ago on the upper Clackamas River in Oregon. Only mine wasn't a two foot brown but a two foot summer run steelhead. I yanked that Royal Coashman bucktail so fast I swear I see him often with those big eyes and chasing my fly through the air. I have kicked my butt for years over that one. Now that I think about it, it may have been three feet long!

I wonder how many other readers have had an incident like that?