Though it sounds like you handled it the best way, it seems to me like it would have been a pretty cut-and-dried case of self-defense. I think I may even know the place you're talking about. Though I've never had to face off with the dogs, I have seen that dobie galloping down the bank, doing his nut, while I floated by. Odd, isn't it, that the most threatening situations in the outdoors should be confrontations, not with wild animals but with people and their vicious "pets". Any fish?

[This message has been edited by Preston Singletary (edited 07-29-2000).]