Jumbo Flying Squid Washing Up On San Diego Beaches

41 posted on 07/26/2002 5:56:43 AM PDT by harpseal

They still don't know what the fish was

The excuse used here in the Great Lakes when a Chinook breaks tackle:
"Had to be that Russian Sub we've heard snuck though the locks."

42 posted on 07/26/2002 8:48:39 AM PDT by ASA Vet

After a few times after my Sage 8 weight 9.5' steelhead rod became an eight footer in the Chetco River, the Rogue, and the Sacramento River, I stopped fishing when/where the King Salmon might be.

However, I have brand new Sage 10 weight 15'1" Euro Spey Rod just for salmon this season. I just put on the new Loop 4 reel and the Rio 9/10 Accelerator Interchangeble tip line yesterday. It is rigged to go do battle with the Kings this summer and fall.

So it and I are headed up to the American River above Sacramento for a little practice casting as soon as I log off of here.

My son, the better fly fisher, said he knows what will happen if I dare to cast my new Sage 7 weight 14'1" Euro Spey steelhead rod for a few practice casts. That will be when the largest King of the season decides to chop down on my little size 12 Fox Caddis Pupah. Then, I will have a 11 or 12 foot 7 weight rod that isn't all that new. Oh course he has no room to talk. His Sage 8 weight like mine had so many broken tips, he decided to make it a 9' rod instead of a 9.5' rod.

So, I'm only putting a 6# tippet on the leader with that rod. Even a 6# tippet before you break it off with a salmon as big as your leg jumping upstream with your fly in its mouth can be a little scary.

Its tough to blame a submarine for a busted rod when the water in the river is only 10' deep.

43 posted on 07/26/2002 10:33:34 AM PDT by Grampa Dave

Its tough to blame a submarine for a busted rod
when the water in the river is only 10' deep.

Not much harder than to believe the Russian "Stealth"
Sub won't show up on the graphing sonar display.

44 posted on 07/26/2002 11:33:43 AM PDT by ASA Vet

No comment!

That's like the Russian Stealth Tank!

45 posted on 07/27/2002 7:46:24 AM PDT by Grampa Dave

It's the driving squid I worry about.

Don't forget the flying cows.

46 posted on 07/27/2002 7:55:05 AM PDT by gitmo

That's like the Russian Stealth Tank!

Hey Dave, they've finally declassified the photos of that stealth Russkie Stealth Tank.

Here's one I obtained from a "source."

Like it?

47 posted on 06/02/2007 1:59:08 PM PDT by ASA Vet (Googling for old old threads finds old old friends.)

Great picture from a good source!

48 posted on 06/03/2007 5:59:32 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (GW has more Honor and Integrity in his little finger than ALL of the losers on the "hate Bush" band)

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