It was a dark and stormy night...

[gusstrand]

Our story so far:

Today was the day I had decided to visit that stream I had seen along the road, meandering in to the woods...

..strung up my rig and realized I had no flies w/ me...

Found an old used and abused fly stuck in my hat.

Tied it on and spat on it for good luck.

I smell like bamboo. that's just true. couldn't find anywhere else to put it.

So I ignored the one sentence, one post per day rules , and rubbed some stream gravel on me to get the bamboo smell off.

laughing

laughing is good for the sole, so I must go down to the sea to catch one. Or perhaps a Sea Run Trout.

In wales of course we call them Sewin,not soles but the sea runs! Said in a Dylan Thomas accent.

[gusstrand]

While the Dylan Thomas accent was in my head, I noticed that it was getting to be dusk, and citing Thomas, I looked to make a final cast... Do not go gentle in to that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light.

[Jax]

But fear not the coming of the night for with the night comes the moon by which to fish for trout by sound if not by sight.

[papasequoia]

I knew where the lair of the big, brown trout was because I had seen it as it had exploded from the water in the fading evening light of the previous night, sending a shower of droplets flying in all directions as it leaped up and lunged for my cat which had wandered far out over the river on a quivering willow branch as it pursued a grasshopper.

[Good to see you back, smallstreams! The fate of my cat is in your hands.]

[greendrake]

Knowing that the big trout was still there made me all the more determined to catch it,even if it meant using Tabby for bait :shifty:

[Windknot]

I quickly fired a cast at Tabby, snagging his collar with the used and abused articulated streamer(complete with spit) i had pulled from my hat, and caught him mid air on the backcast.

(That was a helluva sentence there papa!)

[papasequoia]

(That was a helluva sentence there papa!)

:D Have you ever read the 'dark and stormy night' contest winners (Bulwer-Lytton contest)? Here's a link to the 2009 winners: http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2009.htm

[Jax]

Tabby hit the water running with the Vee of a huge bow wave closing down on him or her very rapidly.

[greendrake]

With one last heroic effort Tabby leaped and landed on terra firma as the maul of the huge trout snapped shut,my reel was screaming because Tabby was now into my backing as she streaked for the woods.

[gusstrand]

during this feline flinging, I hadn't seen the deep yellow pair of eyes that had been monitoring the fracas from the shadows of a deep pine grove...