Jay Balmer. LOL  Did you put up a good fight?

Jeff, gotta tell us how you caught it.
DonO
  OK, we have so far:

    Cottonmouth- JimmyD
    Owl- JimmyD (bear don't count unless you hooked him)
    bat- DonO, Mark R.
    Herring Gull- Iain
    Canada Goose- TonyS
    Freshwater Eel- JeffF
    Turkey, as in self-hooked  -JayB

    This would make for a neat article on Byard's website, if he'd ever upgrade 
it.

    DonO

      ----- Original Message ----- 
      From: Jimmy D. Moore 
      To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com 
      Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:07 AM
      Subject: [VFB] Was: QUOTE FOR THE DAY, Now - what other non-fish and 
other species do you fish for w/flyrod?


      OK, I'll start the thread.  Besides trout, I've fished for all kinds of 
panfish, largemouth, smallmouth, guadalupe, and spotted bass, salt water blues 
and speckled trout
      Yeah, and I've hooked a few tires, rods and reels, trotlines, etc. Caught 
one cottonmouth and gave my boat to him, while I walked on water to get to the 
bank. and lest I forget, there was that Owl I hooked on the Rayado, and the 
young black bear who stole my tippet, fly and my big brown.   :-D 

      JIMMY D

      Don Ordes wrote:

        "If all the trout in the world suddenly disappeared, I know a bunch of 
folks who'd go right on with their fly tying as though nothing happened.  :-P " 
 JimmyD

        Jimmy, this is a neat idea for a new thread.

        What non-fish (or very non-standard fish target) have you caught on a 
fly, and what's the story?

        People who complain there's no neat threads about fly-fishing, here's 
your chance.  If you don't have a personal account, look up internet stories on 
strange creature fly-fishing encounters and post those.  It doesn't have to be 
an intensional catch, even accidental counts.

        I can think of at least a half-dozen weird things I've caught on flies.

        1.  A bat.  About 20 yrs ago, fishing at dusk, I hung a fly up in a 
tree branch, with the fly dangling over the river.  I was going to try to flick 
the fly off the branch when a bat swooped down and hit the fly.  He foul-hooked 
in his shoulder- mayby at the last second sensing the leader.  Little guy was 
REALLY mad when I 'landed' him.  Safe C&R, though.  

        DonO


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