[NewChief]

Originally Posted by picasso

I got a fishing story for ya.
I went bass fishing on a small lake one night 2 hours before dusk. The only people on the water were myself, one other boat and a fly fisherman that put in the same time I did. He was fly fishing for bass with a mouse fly in a float tube around the pads. After an hour I worked my way down the outside of the pads around half the small lake while the fly fisherman moved out into deeper water crossing in front of me to hit the other shore. He was casting while he was crossing the lake. It was right at dusk when on his back cast his fly hit the water and BAM he hooked one behind him. As he reeled in excited as hell he started screaming at the top of his lungs. Flailing around, smacking his rod in the water and totally flippin out.
He caught a BAT on the back cast!!! It swooped down and snatched it out of the air.
I was laughin my ass off.
Then as I was going into the ramp the other boat that was on the water said that they spotted a 7lber next to the ramp. The fly guy was right next to me as I was loading up so he decided to cast up on the ramp and drag that mouse down into the water where they said that bass was at. On his third cast he threw the damn mouse 15 feet up the ramp and worked it down and before that mouse hit the water a damn racoon came out of the trees down to the bank and ran off into the woods with it. I started crying I was laughing so hard!!
God that was the funniest thing I ever saw.

That's awesome. Bats are a well-known hazard while you're fly fishing. The flyline absolutely freaks them out when you're casting. I think there's a video out there of a guy catching a bat while casting. Here's a parody of it:
http://www.getlostmagazine.com/featu...fish/bats.html