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Saturday evening I got in a total of 20 minutes fishing on the South Fork. My son caught a decent brown on his first cast with a clouser minnow that he tied himself. I cast about three times with a rubber legs and caught one small cutt. Then a rock rolled out from under me and I crashed down hard destroying my Winston. I also caught a stick up my nose and am bruised from shoulder to knee. Wow, it must have looked like a cartoon when I was in mid-air. I'm fine, no long term damage, but I didn't get as much time on the water as I had wished even if it was a little off color.
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Cool = catching a nice brown on your first cast with a home tied fly.
Not cool = breaking your rod and having a stick rammed up your nose.
Remember, fishing is a lot more fun when you don't have poop in your pants.
Sorry to hear the bad news but glad you are okay.
Thanks for sharing the pics. That is a nice brown. The cut isn't bad either.
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Sorry about the tumble, Windriver, but, in an attempt to look at the glass half-full, there are worse orifices to have a stick rammed up! Mike
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Sorry about the fall , glad you are going to be OK . Thanks for the report and pictures /
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but those are the trips remembered!!! noone remembers trips that go off as planned.
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Sweet brown, and especially great to get it on a fly he tied! I like his hat too, you should have worn yours. Maybe it would have been your lucky hat, and you wouldn't have had a hard landing.
I am getting even better at the instream swan dive act every year. I can empathize on the rod breakage. That hurts more than either the dignity or the physical beating.
Winstons have a guarantee don't they?
Hope it all turns out ok, and the bruises fade quickly.
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Thanks everyone. Yes my Winston should be covered I am just curious which rod they are going to use to replace it since they don't make the Ibis anymore and I done see any in their list of rods with that action. If the rod retailed for $350 fifteen years ago what is an equivalent rod now? It seems like their lowest end rod starts at $320. It will be interesting.
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