11-24 SS Burnett Bat

11-24 SS Burnett Bat

 When you go fly fishing for a rainbow, or a brown or steelhead, you have one thing and only one thing in mind. That would be catching a fish, right? I’ve got an unusual catch coming up next.

Bill Burnett does all kinds of hunting and fishing. He has his own place up in Sun Valley, Idaho and not too long ago went flyfishing with his brother. I’ll let him tell you the rest.  “A lot of people like to fish for rainbow trout but my brother and I found that it is much more effective to actually fish for bats late at night. We were on the big Wood River just north of Haley, right at dusk, like a lot of rivers around here, there are a lot of bats that will come down and skim the surface, and it was the strangest thing I’ve seen on a river in a long time. He was throwing a size 12 Royal Wolf which you would not think was the closest imitation to a real bug but nonetheless he was throwing it out there and trying to set it down in a small little eddy and just before the fly hit the water this bat swooped down, picked the Royal Wolf up in his mouth, and sure enough he set the hook on him and it is the 1st time I have ever seen anybody land something on a fly rod from directly above him. He actually had reel it all the way in, took the lookout, the bat was fine and flew away.

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