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Re: shark
Posted By: jlmann In Response To: Re: shark (Terry)
Date: Tuesday, 1-13-15, at 12:53 a.m.
I went trout fishing earlier today. Using my 3 wt. With a tapered leader, a 7x tippet and a size 18 Griffin's Gnat. I knew I was in trouble when the trout broke water and I saw that his dorsal fin was 4 ft. tall and twice again as long. As the epic battle raged on, I was about 400 yards into the backing on my Orvis Mach 5 reel, which was, coincidently, the speed at which the trout was now heading downstream. As he broke the sound barrier, the grease and 3-in-1 oil in my reel caught fire, burning my hand as I was desperately trying to turn him. All of a sudden, what line I had left after extinguishing the fire midstream went slack, and my heart sank like a well placed drum rig off the end of a pier. Wandering downstream in defeat, I was shocked to see the battle weary trout beached atop a beaver damn. Surrounded as he was by four grizzly bears, two coyotes, and a scrappy looking cat, I nearly gave up hope of claiming my trophy. Until I remembered the hemostats and surgical scissors I "borrowed" the last time doc brown had to pull a hook from my shoulder after a bad back cast. Armed to the gills, I waded into the fray with my filet knife clenched between my teeth like I'd seen in the movies. It must have been the smell of blood from the nasty cuts on my tongue and lips that drew them out, because the last thing I remember was the sound of a beaver whistling through his teeth and two angry slaps of a too wide tail on top of the water....I'm thinking I'll stick to hamburger until the surf fishing picks back up.
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