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From: Cliff & Karen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, July 07, 2000 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: Weird fishing incidents
> Spencer, my condolences on your loss. That happened to me back in 93' on
> a trip to the Hoh. I lost a lot more than that, however. My truck lost
> it's clutch on 101 near the Quinault and I went for a hike to get to a
> phone. I returned an hour later to find every piece of camping/fishing
> gear stolen from my camper. Twenty years worth of stuff. I learned my
> lesson about packing too much stuff for a trip. But there is one other
> thing that I can think of can ruin a fishing trip worse than that. A
> buddy & I were shot at while on a fishing trip at Concunully back in 93'
> (a bad year for me!). For those of you familiar with the area, we were
> setting up camp at 1:00am in a meadow between the reservoir & Fish Lake,
> when an older rattle-trap pickup came flying down the dirt road about 50
> feet from our campground. When he saw our small fire he slammed on his
> brakes, slid 25 feet, then backed up and rolled his window down. Then
> came five LOUD shots with huge muzzle flashes. My buddy & I ran into the
> woods and hid out for a couple of hours until we felt the coast was
> clear (we left in such a hurry we weren't sure if the driver got out to
> follow us or not). I hid on a hillside crouched behind a tree with a
> ridiculous little Swiss Army Knife in my hand. When we returned we
> gathered our stuff and drove to the City Park in Concunully. After
> placing a Police report in the morning we drove back up and I found five
> .44 Mag empties on the dirt road. The sheriff thought it might have been
> a drunk poacher - he had been swiveling his spotlight all over the place
> as he neared our camp. Pretty weird experience, and it took my buddy & I
> a few years to get used to sleeping in the boonies after that. Anyway,
> sorry to hear about you losing your stuff and having your window
> smashed.
>
> Cliff
>
> Spencer Harker wrote:
> >
> > Two weeks ago I was fishing the Walla Walla outside of Milton Freewater
Oregon. I left my car parked at the parking area, it is also a trail head
for ORV's, and fished for a few hours. When I returned to my car I found my
window smashed and my bag of fishing gear gone. I had just bought a new
spool and sinking line for my Orvis Battenkill reel two days earlier. I
never had a chance to fish that line. Nothing ruins a fishing trip like
that, no matter how will the fishing might be.
> >
> > Spencer
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kent Lufkin [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2000 11:28 AM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Weird fishing incidents
> >
> > I've been hearing an increasing number of disturbing stories from
> > other fisher folk and list members about weird situations with other
> > people they encountered while fishing. Incidents include everything
> > from car break-ins and vandalism to physical threats or intimidation.
> >
> > Many of the incidents occurred while fishing in the Snoqualmie River
> > drainage. Apparently the area developed such a reputation for
> > gun-toting, survivalist types and hippie campers/squatters that
> > Weyerhaeuser was forced to gate the access roads into their huge tree
> > farm to minimize damage to logging equipment.
> >
> > But the Snoqualmie doesn't have a monopoly on weirdness by any
> > stretch - lakes Lenice and Rattlesnake and the Green and Skykomish
> > rivers were also mentioned.
> >
> > I'd be interested in hearing about the experiences of other list
> > members with confrontations/encounters with such folk, areas to
> > avoid, if some areas have been �cleaned up� through enforcement, and
> > prudent prevention/avoidance tactics, (and no Angela jokes, please!)
> >
> > Kent Lufkin
> >
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