How to end your day fishing early

[GrouseSetters]

My day on Meadow Run got cut short. Please don't laugh too hard :lol:

Meadow Run Fly Fishing

 

[EagleUSMCRet]

ouch

 

[Dave_W]

Good stuff - happens to all of us. :lol:

Thanks for the video. MR looks like it has a strong flow these days.

 

[RLeep2]

My condolences. It's pretty impressive though that you were able to accomplish this right out in the open. I usually need to be right under a low bridge and pulling the trigger on a 4 inch brook trout before I break a rod. I have a nasty startle reflex and forget where I am sometimes....

 

[redietz]

One of the reasons that I always have an inexpensive rod in the trunk as a spare.

 

[GrouseSetters]

Fortunately it is an Orvis with their 25 year warranty. They are getting it back to me in under 2 weeks.

 

[salvelinus]

My condolences on your loss That's exactly why I fish glass.

 

[KGStine]

Glad it was only the rod. The whole time I was watching the video, I was afraid the copperhead was going to get you. Especially during the underwater release.

 

[tracker12]

I recently did the same thing to my Orvis Recon this year. Unfortunately I did it in the parking lot and never got a minute on the water.

 

[salmonoid]

KGStine wrote:
Glad it was only the rod. The whole time I was watching the video, I was afraid the copperhead was going to get you. Especially during the underwater release.

I'd bet on it being a northern brown water snake, not a copperhead.

 

[dryflyguy]

Had a similar incident a few years ago.

I had hiked up into the little juniata gorge with a friend. All the way to the last pool before the home waters stretch.
And that's where I snagged a tree on the far side

But it was the line that broke.
It was old and had small nick in it, about one third up from the end- which I sealed with super glue.
It held for a good year or so, before finally breaking - way up there

I had a spare reel in the truck back at the Baree parking lot - at least 2 miles back down the trail
No way I was gonna hike down, and back up again though

But the fish were rising pretty good
So I tied a loop in the new end of the line, which was now about two thirds of it's original length.
Put the leader back on and kept fishing.

 

[redietz]

I'd bet on it being a northern brown water snake, not a copperhead.

My thought as well, but I can't really make it out from the picture, and the OP was there.

I think I'd rather see a copperhead in the water than a water snake; the copperhead would just as soon avoid you, but I've seen water snakes swim across the stream for the sole purpose of biting. (Obviously, if I have to be bitten, I'd prefer the water snake.)