05-14-2006, 12:47 PM
[cool][#0000ff]One of the guys on the tubing board posted a link to a fly fishing chat room with a pictorial story about a guy that had a trout on his line grabbed by an eagle. I can't post the link but here is a copy and paste.[/#0000ff]
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[font "Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size 2]Few things are more exciting than to see a fish on the take, and to get pictures of it!
Here’s the take:
…and here’s the first screaming run:
The screaming part actually came from me when I touched the smoking line with my “bird” finger.. sliced me like a razor! I was pretty deep into the backing when I broke him off. I had forgotten about the eagle being in the area, but spotted him a couple hundred yards away sitting in a tree. When I hooked the rainbow, at the first jump, the eagle was airborne, and I had time to grab my camera…. Didn’t think he was going to get the fish though, because I threw a lot of slack line to let the fish dive. Oh well…
Anyway, pretty good afternoon at a secluded, and secrete lake to the north of my place. I won’t mention the name, but the initials are Merrill Lake. Caught a couple nice, fat rainbows (besides the one to the eagle took)
...and a bunch of cutthroat, two that went over 16 inches. I had a brown on, (grand-slam?) but broke him off by being to lazy to retie a knot. [/size][/font]
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[font "Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif"][size 2]Few things are more exciting than to see a fish on the take, and to get pictures of it!
Here’s the take:
…and here’s the first screaming run:
The screaming part actually came from me when I touched the smoking line with my “bird” finger.. sliced me like a razor! I was pretty deep into the backing when I broke him off. I had forgotten about the eagle being in the area, but spotted him a couple hundred yards away sitting in a tree. When I hooked the rainbow, at the first jump, the eagle was airborne, and I had time to grab my camera…. Didn’t think he was going to get the fish though, because I threw a lot of slack line to let the fish dive. Oh well…
Anyway, pretty good afternoon at a secluded, and secrete lake to the north of my place. I won’t mention the name, but the initials are Merrill Lake. Caught a couple nice, fat rainbows (besides the one to the eagle took)
...and a bunch of cutthroat, two that went over 16 inches. I had a brown on, (grand-slam?) but broke him off by being to lazy to retie a knot. [/size][/font]
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