Yep - sounds like a catfish to me. Got lucky and landed a 27" about 10lb cat on 6lb tippet one time. It was a fun battle :)
On Wed, Jun 8, 2016 at 10:38 AM, J Balmer <jbal...@betadigm.com> wrote: > While I never saw the fish, it acted like catfish. I used to have a two > piece 5 wt that I kept rigged for when I only had time to go to the pond, > had a cat in almost the same exact place crack the rod right @ the ferrule > while I was fighting it. That was a smaller fish:) > > > -----Original Message----- > From: 'Anthony Spezio' via VFB Mail [mailto:vfb-mail@googlegroups.com] > Sent: Tuesday, June 7, 2016 11:33 AM > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > Subject: Re: [VFB] Fishing > > I had the same thing happen at a slew on Crooked Creek but I got the see > the Carp. I thought I was snagged but the line slowly started coming up. > The Carp was right up on top, it looked like a submarine coming up. It just > stayed there for a few seconds and rolled breaking off my last Chili > Pepper. I tried to have it take another fly with no luck. > Tony > -------------------------------------------- > On Mon, 6/6/16, Allan Fish <afi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > Subject: Re: [VFB] Fishing > To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com > Date: Monday, June 6, 2016, 2:59 PM > > > Threw back & hit > what I thought was a snag, until it started moving. Moved about ten feet > along the shore, realized it was hooked & even though I was letting line > out through my fingers, the 3x tippet snapped > > about 6 inches from the leader. > > Sounds like a big old > catfish. > > Get some heavy > tippet on and go back and catch that dood so we know what > > it was. <G> > > af > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message > because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this > group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to > vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit > https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > -- > 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 > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VFB Mail" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- 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 --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VFB Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to vfb-mail+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
