I stopped by a pond near my job today after work to catch a few stocked black crappie. It was nice to see that they are finally starting to grow a little. I had about 40 foot of line out when a turtle surfaced and grabbed my fly line. Thankfully he let go as soon as he saw me. I checked my line and couldn’t find any cuts.
Man you just never know what’s going to happen!
You are right about that. Fish, turtles, bats, beavers, nutria, seaplanes…
“Give me ambiguity or give me something else”
Ummm … “seaplanes”?
Trouts don’t live in ugly places
Happens in Alaska especially as the plane comes close to the shore/dock, fisherman is close by, and casts an extra long for some reason or thinks he has time “for one more”. It never happened to me when we were up there, but it did happen to a friend of a co-worker. He refused to lose his fly, brought in the line as the plane finished, and unsnagged it from the pontoon. From what I heard, he is no longer taking “just one more” if a plane is coming in.
Oh yes, anything can happen, a friend of mine once hooked a duck as it flew past, it put up a hell of a fight.
Mike.
seagulls are a nice fight, corks drag are no match for a cow, bears are will eat the fish your bring in and manage to get hooked (bear was hiding in the woods did not see or hear it good thing it wanted fish) lost a spinning setup to a jeep. many weird things.
I had some mayflies try to chat up my bivisible last week, the cads. On the other hand, it made me feel good about my flies.
We get the odd hellbender round here. There’s nothing quite like dredging up 3 feet of prehistoric salamander. One of my co-workers did that a year or two ago.
Mike,
That exact thing happened to my dad while he and his buddies were fishing for walleyes on a lake in eastern Colorado.
A friend thought fast enough to grab a camera as my dad was trying to free the mallard that dropped in front of him. The picture was used at his retirement party years later.
Diane