Damn Jimmy D you and nice browns dont have much luck together.
CRB
From: "Jimmy D. Moore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Subject: [VFB] Falling
Date: Wed, 01 Feb 2006 12:46:46 -0600
Now that just about everybody and their dog has put their 2 cents worth in
about falling / not falling, I'll share my experiences with ya'll. I've
fallen a bunch of times, but the most memorable was on the Rayado River at
Philmont Scout Ranch, NM in 1990. I hooked an 18" brown, which is a giant
for the Rayado and while chasing him down, trying to keep'em from breaking
off, I tripped over a submerged log and fell headlong into the deep "hole"
where the brown had sounded. Of course I lost the big fish, and in the
process filled my hip boots with water and ruined my $300 Minolta camera.
Boy was I pissed! Cussing a blue streak, I climbed out onto a rock bar
and lay back and stuck both my feet up in the air and all the water came
down, out of my boots and right onto my chest. Kinda cooled me off a bit!
Only then did I understand the hilarity of what I'd just done. I started
laughing, just small chuckles to begin with, but the more I thouhght about
what had happened, the funnier it got and my laughter just roared out. I
do have a great laugh! I didn't get a chance at another 18" brown until
three years ago on the Gunnison. That's the one where I broke my right leg
trying to pull it out of the muck bottom. I did catch the 18 that time
though.
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Jimmy D. Moore - Scout Exec. BSA (Ret.), TOWA, TF&G Contributor, GRTU Past
VP. Past Pres. McGregor Rotary. Freelance Outdoor writer, humorist,
half-assed Texan and collector of classic bamboo fly rods and classic golf
clubs
Author - "MOON HOLLER MISFITS Fishing & Hunting Club", ©
JIMMY D's Fly Fishing Website:
http://home.earthlink.net/~rayado/rayadoflyfishingflypatternstips/index.html
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"Being able to read trout streams is just as valuable to a fly fisherman as
the ability to read a defense is to an NFL Quarterback."
Jimmy D. Moore - © [2004]
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