Clouser in the Crotch!
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Spent a couple of hours flinging flies at leopard sharks yesterday afternoon. I hooked three, one of the three was foul hooked, all three were broken off using 14lb fluoro. I really laid into them, I probably put a little to much pressure on the sharks.
Encountered another fly fisher on the water who had landed a small leopard earlier in the day. The sharks were pretty much putting on a show for us. Swimming and cruising just feet from us.
I managed to miss hooking my ear while casting, the fly hit me just above my ear on the hat. I continued to try and catch me a leopard shark. I was getting some serious distance on my cast, I watched a double haul video on YouTube before I left for the beach and was really trying to remember to double haul.
Here is the money shot….
That’s right! RIGHT IN THE CROTCH!
The clouser punctured my gortex waders all the way through, I’m going to need a patch. At least it was better that the puncture was my in waders than in my ear or some other body part. I could just image walking into the hospital to have a clouser minnow removed from… well I think you guys can imagine where.
Its easy to make mistakes when you have fish infront of you. It can also be hard to learn to properly double haul just learning from youtube.
Thing is you just have to take the time to practice your casting and hauls while off the water enough so that when you get on the water you can avoid little accidents. Another thing to do is to remove your barbs on your hooks, its better on the fish and safer for you.
That is a hell of a shot. It has got to be tough to hit such a small target.
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How did I know I would get some heat for this one, it was to funny not to post. I have to laugh at myself every now and then ;D
Lucky it was not in the rear end, if not I’d be the butt of all the jokes around here 😀Crotch piercings aside, what’s the body on that clouser??
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