I wonder if I should tell you about the 2" Green Sunfish that Amanda hooked one time. When she set the hook it got her Mom in the cheek and me in the forehead. Worst part was when she went to throw it back she hooked my right ear.
No, she may not like me telling that story, so I won't. Jimi I thought I was unique having a male Blue- jay dive for and peck at a miller dry- fly while I was fishing the Pickering creek last year (just snagged on the beak; he let go and nearly took out my eye when the fly hurtled back towards me...), but that pelican story has me beat by a landslide! Not that this is somehow something I would actually want to share, but my wife loves to point out that I did catch a lake trout in Maine, but it was such a small fingerling that when I went to set the hook, it literally caused the fish to fly out of the water and (yes, really) slap me in the forehead... umm, now why am I admitting this again? (for those concerned, the hook didn't even puncture its jaw, and to the best of my knowledge the fish was fine - shy of the humiliation of having been caught by such a clumsy fly fisherman and shy of a rocket- trip through the air...) Again, why am I sharing this? ;) Tight lines, Pete
