Speaking of hooking one's self, I have never done that, to the best of my recollection, at least throught he flesh- plenty of times in clothing, tho. I have never hooked my boat guide, either. LOL
My brother-in-law was trying to fish one of my flies with a spinning rod and hooked himself in the ear-lobe- bloody as all get-out. It was a black-gold dry fly, golden pheas. crest for wings and tail, a gold floss body with black rib, and gold and black hackles mixed. The emergency room doctor liked the fly so much he said he'd take it out for free if he could have it- cleaned it up and called it his Halloween fly. DonO ----- Original Message ----- From: J Balmer To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 10:47 AM Subject: [VFB] Re: Was: QUOTE FOR THE DAY, Now - what other non-fish and other species do you fish for w/flyrod? I caught a 200 lb turkey on one of my special olive wooly buggers. It was on Lake Taneycomo a couple of years ago. We had taken a break while the generators came on & were fishing flooded grass while the water was dropping. Caught a couple nice bows & one or two smaller browns. I was casting over my left shoulder because of the wind & apparently dropped my back cast because I embedded the bugger in my left elbow. Apparently my skin is pretty tough there because I couldn’t work it out & couldn’t push it out to clip it off, in spite of having bent down the barb. I retied w/ something else & continued fishing the rest of the afternoon. I later had to have Mike’s wife assist me in pushing the point through far enough to clip it. Still have the fly… From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Anthony Spezio Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 11:29 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [VFB] Re: Was: QUOTE FOR THE DAY, Now - what other non-fish and other species do you fish for w/flyrod? Canada Goose in flight on my backcast Tony --- On Wed, 11/11/09, Don Ordes <[email protected]> wrote: From: Don Ordes <[email protected]> Subject: [VFB] Re: Was: QUOTE FOR THE DAY, Now - what other non-fish and other species do you fish for w/flyrod? To: [email protected] Date: Wednesday, November 11, 2009, 11:15 AM OK, we have so far: Cottonmouth Owl (bear don't count unless you hooked him) bat 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: [email protected] 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: Jimmy D. Moore To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 2009 9:17 AM Subject: [VFB] Re: QUOTE FOR THE DAY 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 J Balmer wrote: Or how long would fly tying as a business lastJ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jimmy D. 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