God is Great, Beer is Good, and People is Crazy
The Attack of the Killer Salmon
Fall Salmon Run 2007
There it was about half past midnight on the Pere Marquete River, the moon was full and there was a strange chill in the air, a slight fog had started to rise up above the water.. Me and my favorite fishing buddy “hook-up” had happed upon the sweetest honey hole you could imagine. One fish after another, and your not talking little fish but 36,37, 38 inches with teeth up to 3/4 of an inch long. But not to worry these fish wouldn't hurt a flee, or would they? There was a stump in the water about 5 foot deep and located very close to the honey whole and as I made a cast, bam, I hit that stump on the spot. I pulled back and that line didn't budge one iotta. I thought, I will just go out there and try to nock that hook off the stump with my foot and save my fly. The water was only about 4 1/2 foot deep right there and I had done it before. As I got to the spot I started trying to kick my fly loose and much to my surprise I kicked the biggest Salmon I had ever seen. He took off and my reel went crazy, my pole bet back and I yelled out, “That’s not a stump, that’s the biggest Salmon I have ever seen”. All the sudden he jumped straight up out of the water and looked me in the eye, came back down and headed straight for me. I reeled as fast as I could and tried to get to the bank as quickly as possible, but I was no match for a Salmon in the water. When all of the sudden that Salmon jumped straight up out of the water, completely soaking me, and did some sort of flip in the air and smacked me straight across my face with his big old tail. My hat went flying and he almost knocked me in the water. As I regained my balance he headed out about 20 feet jumped straight up in the air breaking my line and let out a God awful shriek of a sound that scared the begweemas out of me, and just like that he was gone back down into the murky depths of that dark misty river. My buddy said what the hell was that and I said it was the biggest damm Salmon I’d ever seen and I don't think he liked being kicked and he let me know it!
Maybe this was him? What do you think?
