One morning on the Duck River in southern Tennessee I found a small bat tangled in fishing line left hanging in a tree. It was hanging just out of my reach and I thought I could hook the end of that branch and pull it down far enough to free the little guy, his body was about the size of my thumb!! That little bat grabbed my rod tip and hung on so hard I was able to get him/her down so I could untangle it and let it fly off.