While flyfishing today I got something snagged on my hook - at first I thought I had pulled a leaf or something off of a tree on my backcast, but as I went to clear it off it started buzzing around… I’m glad I had my camera for this -
WillyB-
Were you able to successfully release it?
Taxon
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Great Photo!
Hi WoollyB,
That is an amazing photo. I was wondering if the dragonfly was just flying along and got snagged or if it came after you fly and tried to grab it. My bet is that you got a vote of approval from the insect community and the dragonfly tied to catch your fly first.
I hope that you are going to practice catch and release. No dragonfly fillets on the grill for this Fourth of July----please. 
8t
You had better learn to be a happy camper. You only get one try at this campground and it’s a real short camping season.
I don’t know how he ended up on there - whether he went for my fly or just had an unlucky day. He lost his abdomen in the encounter, but I removed the hook and he flew away anyway. I also have a short video clip of him buzzing around.
WoollyB:
Jeez, that beats the bats I’ve managed to catch during evening hatches!
It gives new meaning to the term, “fly fishing”.
talk about matching the hatch!
Sir WoollyB:
Care to share the camera used to capture such a fantastic pic ???
So let me get this right…
…you were fishing an ultra-realistic Dragonfly pattern when you accidentially snagged a size 14 Elk Wing Caddis??
JimmyG,
The camera is a fujifilm finepix 2800Zoom.
The picture was taken in macro mode -
it does okay for a 2.0MP camera.
WB
should have cast that dude out there, it isn’t live bait fishing b/c the fish would have eaten the tan caddis, right.
Nice shot WoollyB!!
Jeremy…who really needs to keep his digital more accessible!
Nice dragonfly, that might be a record!!
Wow that is amazing, because on one day last week, a buddy and i were fishing right before dark, and for some reason my buddys fly diddnt fall on the water, but was flying in the air.
As he reeled in his pole, his line dropped and hit the water, when he got it in we figured out it was a bat. 
We let it go as best as we could, but its wing was ripped, we diddnt go check the next day, because we had to pack up from camping and go home, the bat was alive, and still moving great with the hole.
We think the fly hit his wing right away, and if so, then he could still fly.
I can’t remember when or the exact details, …
The last time the worlds (ff) were held in the Kamloops region, (would have been in the mid-late '90’s)… apparently, a competitor caught a DUCK! (or was it a Loon).
Anyone hear of this ??
Christopher Chin, Jonquiere Quebec
That’s interesting- never had that happen to me but I’ve heard of it happening- met someone that caught a bat on his backcast one night on the Ausable river in Michigan
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Not to brag but speaking of flying critters…
I’ve had bats take my fly and snagged a few.
Hooked and released a Mallard duckling who nailed my Trico spinner before I realized what happened. I cut the tippet to let him loose, he now quacks with a lisp.
Snagged a mallard who landed directly on top of my floating fly and it proceeded to fly off taking line off my screaming reel until the hook slipped off of the feather it was snagged to.
Snagged a seagull on a forward cast; it too got away due to a feather snag.
Hooked a Canada Goose on a 4/0 worm hook who proceeded to BREAK my 17lb test flourocarbon line. Great sport, them geeses!
I’m not surprised. The same thing happened to me last summer. Dragon flies are pretty quick, and I guess the fly in the air looks like the real thing to them.