04-30-2006, 09:44 PM
[black][size 3]I caught a shopping cart once - used a nymph under a bubble. It was quite a battle but, I got it ashore. I was on my bike at the time so I filleted off part of it and released the rest of it unharmed in a dumpster nearby. [/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]I still have that part and use it as a rod stand and holder when I go out camping and fishing. [/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]Here's an action shot.[/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]My next best was a Mallard decoy I got with a jig and plastic - I got him netted and took him home with me. I just couldn't bring myself to fillet him though. So, I released him in my back yard.[/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]Also at a BFT flotilla fishing event, I netted (BFT)Bassackwards' tackle box as it floated aimlessly out in the open water of Willard Bay. Apparently, he was on his toon and unbeknownst to him, it had fallen off at some point, and it had drifted in the current for a couple of hours before I found it bobbing in the waves as it floated by my watercraft. [/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]It looked like a keeper so I took it home and posted it on the Utah board hoping that it belonged to one of the many BFTers that were there that day. He claimed it and identified all of the contents, so, I released it unharmed to him. [/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]No photos of it. However, I think he might have filleted himself over letting that one almost get away. [/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]I still have that part and use it as a rod stand and holder when I go out camping and fishing. [/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]Here's an action shot.[/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]My next best was a Mallard decoy I got with a jig and plastic - I got him netted and took him home with me. I just couldn't bring myself to fillet him though. So, I released him in my back yard.[/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]Also at a BFT flotilla fishing event, I netted (BFT)Bassackwards' tackle box as it floated aimlessly out in the open water of Willard Bay. Apparently, he was on his toon and unbeknownst to him, it had fallen off at some point, and it had drifted in the current for a couple of hours before I found it bobbing in the waves as it floated by my watercraft. [/size][/black]
[black][size 3][/size][/black]
[black][size 3]It looked like a keeper so I took it home and posted it on the Utah board hoping that it belonged to one of the many BFTers that were there that day. He claimed it and identified all of the contents, so, I released it unharmed to him. [/size][/black]
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[black][size 3]No photos of it. However, I think he might have filleted himself over letting that one almost get away. [/size][/black]
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