unusual animals/amphibians/strange things caught on fly tack

[flyandtie]

the last thread about fly froggin has really taken off so heres an addition.
what is your unusual thing that you have caught on the fly!?

mine would be bullfrogs, ducks, mudhens.
they all took dry flies!!!!!

[DShock]

I was float tubing a lake in central OR and on my first cast of the day a DUCK! swam over and bit my FLY! and the Fight (flight) was on!!!! He took off and my drag could handle it and that Duck is still flying around with MY!!!! WOOLYBUGGER!!!!!!!!!!!!
I want it back right now!!!!!!!!!!!!
Doug P.S. I can hardly wait to hear the stories of hooking cars and trucks on the backcast!

[flyandtie]

that would suck to hook a car!
i also hooked a seagull on the local lake( guess i shouldnt have tried to practice my accuracy on him huh!) and he took off ! it looked kinda funny a fly fisher dragging a seagu;l backwards while he tries to fight it all the way back! then when i got him down he tried to bite me so i just cut my leader as close to the fly as i could!!!

p.s. come on guys lets hear any wierd stuff youve caught on fly tackle!

[DShock]

Chris,
You'd better fasten your seat belt! Your about to read some funny replies.

[MontanaMoose]

Got a bat on the back cast once...couldn't figure out where my fly went, then I noticed my fly line wasn't on the water either....looked up and the fly, leader and line were flying around straight overhead !

Cheers,

MontanaMoose

[Greg Hunsicker]

Seagull = Flying Rats

Snagged my cast right out of the air!

[island fly]

I once caught a turtle on my fly. The worst part was trying to get my fly back. It was a snapping turtle

[Radioflyer]

Anyone know if a watersnake will take a fly. I flyfish for bass/gills on my lake and whenever there's a watersnake out crossing a cove, it'll head straight for my fly. Haven't left it there long enough to see if he'll take it. Don't want to! Anyone know?

rf

[okflyfisher]

bats

The other night I was out practice casting and the toads came out of cover as the twilight deepened. They hammered the pink yarn on the end of my leader. I fooled six the last 3 at 65 feet under a street lght. its pretty funny to see a toad energetically hop after your fly( yarn)

[James Smith]

So far:

2 bats
1 water snake
1 Canada Goose (my fault for not paying better attention)
1 Kingfisher
several dragon flies

Oh, I also caught a fish once

In a similar thread I saw posted; one of the guys hook a large bull in the butt on his back cast. I guess the bull thought he got stung by a bee because he took off in the opposite direction. This guy did a wonderful job describing the scene and telling the story how his line just started screaming out of his reel on his back cast and it took him a minute or two to figure out what was happening. Great story that makes me laugh again just thinking of it.



Jim Smith