Same one I got for the same situation in Alaska last year. I got my line back and quite a story to tell.
Un luckly I had the lodge put a new line on my reel the night I got off the river, so it cost me $90. Thank you, Alan Di Somma Why is it that at class reunions you feel younger than everyone else looks? http://www.azflyfishing.net/ ----- Original Message ----- From: Neville Gosling To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Sent: Thursday, March 25, 2010 10:28 AM Subject: [VFB] Darwin award, Second Class. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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.) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject.
