Dan's thread got me to thinking and I searched for fishing threads... none came up. So, what's your tale?

Subject: RE: BS: Oh Yea the Salmon are Running
From: gnu - PM
Date: 09 Oct 10 - 06:29 PM

It was windy. I couldn't chuck a fly very well. But, I was between Tom and Ted at Grey Rapids, Main Sou'west Miramichi, both famous fly fishermen. They were whippin out line and I tried my best.

At one point, I could hear the gust of wind in the trees upstream... I knew it was comin... but I needed one more cast to get a respectable cast and I went for it. I lost. The last 15 feet wrapped around my head at a million miles an hour and the fly smacked me in the forehead so hard it left a mark. Me buddies joked they could tell it was a Green Machine fly.

Tom said, "Good thing that didn't hit you in the eye."

Ted said, "I used to wear my ballcap low when I did something that fucking stupid."

Yeah, Ted was, ahhh, "blunt and to the point". He could cast a fly better than he could bat. A joy to watch. Fact is, when he was on that pool, many peeps would stop fishing and just watch. He owned the land across the river shown in my member's photo of me casting on that pool.