silicone skyline wrote:I've got a question for ya Micky.
What is the strangest thing you have reeled in, be it a fish or not...
Since I started fly fishing about three years ago lets see .
A middle aged (or older) woman in a skull boat refused to stop as I was yelling at her .
So she caught me she was all upset and I said just let me untangle and she'll be apples .But she was still upset and I said you had to stop anyway"why" and I said your heading straight for a concrete pontoon. They shoudn't let women drive backwards on water
sorry Jas.
Almost caught a women in the eye who was walking her dog .She was walking then stopped I started to cast and she was right behind me.
My straw cowboy hat blew off in a 30/35 knot wind took me about 10 minutes to hook and land
Back when I was really just starting fishing (I've forgotten so much) I must have been about 18.Me and a mate went off the breakwater at Victor .One of the first times I used a whole pilchard bloody big albatross (I think) swooped down and took it out the water .so fast I couldn't do anything.You could see the line get tight in the air and then ping the bird flew backwards and then went straight on.Not what you really want to happen!!
Was with the same mate on the Outer Harbour Break Water when he hooked and landed a keeper net complete with trumpeters inside.
Not caught but
I had a few run ins with Brown snakes along the torrens back when I was even younger fishing for Carp with Bread and floats .One snake had six teenagers (me included) run straight up a steep bank at break neck speed .
Used to think the Water rats in the Torrens were bad and big .when my kids were little used to fish with a mate at the marina at north haven catching whiting and mullet .One friday night we are standing on rocks near the waters edge .I saw this thing moving in the water I knew what it was .I moved way up the rock face with my mate yelling look an otter.I yelled that aint no otter we dont have them here thats the biggest Rat I've ever seen .
Now when I fly fish I have to watch out for Trees stobie poles lights bench seats do they count as well not to mention my pants the backpack on my back or sitting on the shore or my hat on my head
I almost forgot almost caught a shag in the lake it was chasing my fly and in the Torrens one of those Water hen birds did the same thing.
Cheers
Now everyone knows I'm not that good