About eight years ago I was Fort Leonard Wood, Misouri, attending the combat engineer advanced course. Every day when class was over found me on one of the local rivers or creeks, fishing for some of the huge brown trout that can be found there. One sunny afternoon I was fishing on Roubidoux creek, a well known hangout for slab brownies, when I noticed a fence post move, about a foot from my left arm. Now I'm a dumb ol' country boy, but even I know that fence posts ain't 'posed to move. Was about a 3 foot copperhead wrapped around the post, and he didn't want to share his post with me! Well, the better idea bulb popped on, and I stepped exactly 9 feet away, bit my leader off, and tied a noose in the end. Yep, I lassoed me that copperhead, and that sucker went ab-so-lutely nuts! So now, I've got a 3 foot long, poison snake on a 6x tippet, and a 5 weight....so I'm thinking to myself...self, whatinthehell are you gonna do now? Well, I did what any good redneck flyfisher would have done in my predicament...I double hauled his ass across the river! I put the breaks on the cast about halfway across, noose tightens, head pops off, and I'm back to trout fishing. I really should have warned the guy in the next pool down the river, he damn near had a hernia when Jake floated down by him.
Greg
US Army Pro Staff
Official Judge, Snake Tossing Event, Redneck Olympics (Hey, Watch This!)