It was my first time fishing the Renous river in a line-up of other fly fishers and I was a bit nervous about moving at the right speed. Some of the old guys, older than me that is and I’m 55, tend to get a little cranky if you don’t move your butt fast enough.

It was a nice day with a bit of a breeze blowing, nothing I couldn’t handle. Then things changed, the clouds moved in, the wind picked up and then it started to rain.

The rain was refreshing as it was pretty warm but the wind I could do without. I struggle with windy days.

I was moving up the river and the salmon were all along bank of the river jumping about every minute or so. It was pretty exciting.

The tide was out and there is a rock bottom like a sandbar my son was sitting on watching us fly fish.

Well as the wind picked up I tried moving my rod from my right hand to my left hand while casting and was doing quite well until on gust of wind that seemed to spin right around me caught the line and wrapped around my head and my neck and the fly went right through my earlobe.

It wasn’t painful at all because it happened in a split second. Some glad I always were a hat and glasses.

Well my son jumped up and started laughing. He did stop laughing long enough to say I finally got up the nerve to get an ear pierced, as the blood was running down my neck.

The blood wasn’t as bad as it seemed, it was more the rain making it look like that.

I never missed a beat, more out of being nervous with all the people around me, but I snipped the line, left the fly in my earlobe and kept moving as I tied on another fly.

It was easy to cut the hook because it had gone clear through so it was a plainless piercing.

My son wanted me to keep the fly in to show his mom. It brought back painful memories of her going to the hospital with a hook in her head.


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