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He proudly showed me his box of flies where the specimens were arranged, as most of them were unknown to me it gave him great pleasure to cite the exotic names of each fly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a \u201cBabine special\u201d. That one is the famous \u201cTequila Sunrise\u201d. And that one there is the formidable \u201cGreen Butt Skunk\u201d that no Steelhead of normal constitution can see without sensing the irresistible urge to gobble it up.\u201d<\/p>\n
The flies were mounted on hooks as big as a butcher\u2019s hook, with barbs like a vampire; I didn\u2019t doubt for a minute that the Doctor O had dreams of bringing back trophies to \u201cdecorate\u201d his dining room.<\/p>\n
A good month had passed when, in the village of Big Indian, I ran into the \u201cgood Doctor\u201d in a bar.<\/p>\n
I confess that I was hardly able to recognize him.\u00a0 He looked like he had been run through a meat grinder. His bottom lip was blown up and was an brownish-red-violet color with traces of black which seemed the result of stitches, it made me shudder. In short, the facial anatomy of my poor friend would prompt nightmares for any of the living dead. To encounter him on a moonless night would be to risk cardiac failure.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut what happened to you my poor friend\u201d I asked. \u201cStrangely enough, you resemble Boris Karloff in the celebrated film \u201cThe Body Snatcher\u201d.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Le-mouching-fly-fishing-Karloff.jpg?resize=220%2C300&ssl=1\" "\\"Le")
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\u201cWell, my dear Fl\u00e8che, let me tell you about my horrible adventure.\u00a0 Arriving at the Deschutes River it didn\u2019t take me long to notice a magnificent Steelhead ambling just behind a little current. I got myself well balanced on a little rock and cast my fly toward the animal.\u00a0 Unfortunately, without notice a strong gust of wind caused my line to deviate; the result: ma BABINE SWPECIAL\u201d came to plant itself in my lower lip piercing my entire face. First cast and the last of my dreams.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was taken by an emergency helicopter to the hospital in Portland and found myself in the operating room.\u00a0 All the personnel of the establishment came by one after the other to see my tribulation and no one could hold back their chuckling or outright laughter on seeing my lip with the assassin fly hanging there. The bloody barb, on top of destroying my self-esteem and my good looks cost me a fortune in medical bills, believe me!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, I\u2019ve decided to abandon fishing and will devote my time to hunting. At least \u201cTHEY\u201d won\u2019t give me a hard time with NO KILL and all that jazz.\u201d<\/p>\n
A short time later the owner of the Pine Hill Hotel, Bob, finds that the jerk, having forgotten his glasses in his 4×4, cleanly shoots and kills Bob\u2019s horse, taking the animal for a deer.<\/p>\n
Then and there Bob buys a box of cartridges for big game, \u201c12 caliber Brenneke magnum\u201d.<\/p>\n
Since then, we have heard nothing of the good Doctor O.![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/lemouching.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Le-Mouching-fly-fishing-Connard1.jpg?resize=750%2C927&ssl=1\" "\\"Le-Mouching-fly-fishing-Connard\\"")
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He proudly showed me his box of flies where the specimens were arranged, as most of them were unknown to me it gave him great pleasure to cite the exotic names of each fly. \u201cThis is a \u201cBabine special\u201d. That one is the famous \u201cTequila Sunrise\u201d. And that one there is the formidable \u201cGreen Butt Skunk\u201d that no Steelhead of normal constitution can see without sensing the irresistible urge to gobble it up.\u201d The flies were mounted on hooks as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15854,15851],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-el-mouching","category-fresh"],"yoast_head":"\n