The "I owe my buddy a bottle of Scotch' award?
Jack
Austin
Neville Gosling wrote:
Dear Buggs:
My club organizes trips to a remote river to fish for steelhead using
use fixed wing aircraft and helicopters to get there. It is not a
cheap trip and lasts for a week, so you can imaging that prior to
going on one of these jaunts, one tinkers and prepares one's tackle
extensively. On one such trip, I obtained a new spey line which I
duly loaded on my reel. Four of us flew in and set up camp. Having
done so, we started fishing. On the second day, I hooked a steelhead
which immediately ran downstream. As the line to backing knot left
the tip guide of my spey rod, and started to follow the fly line
downstream, about 8 feet of the backing fell back. It was disconnected
from the fly line. I felt sure that I had connected it properly, but
later realized that I had done a temporary overhand knot to secure the
backing to the fly line in order to gage the amount of backing
required to fill that reel and in the excitement of the preparation I
had forgotten to go back and complete a proper join.
About two or three days later, one of our party of four could see a
yellow line (RIO) streaming back in the river some distance downstream
of where I hooked the fish. With some difficulty, he waded in as far
as he could and with the help of a long branch, hooked up the line and
retrieved it complete with the fly.
Now the difficult question is "what kind of award do I get for this?"
Neville (Nev) Gosling
Greater Vancouver,
B.C. Canada
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*From:* vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
[mailto:vfb-m...@googlegroups.com] *On Behalf Of *Don Ordes
*Sent:* March 25, 2010 9:27 AM
*To:* vfb-mail@googlegroups.com
*Subject:* Re: [VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY
Hmmmm.... I would think if they spooled up thebacking without
fastening it securely to the reel, at that point, long before
getting spooled, the person deserved a Darwin award, Second
Class. (First class is when they are weeded out of the gene pool
by their actions.)
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