Quote Originally Posted by Tim_T View Post
I thought Elnut was already a living legend in the smallmouth world! Sorry Elnut, I just had to say it LOL!
My buddy Cliff and I was at the Holler in Feb of 2008 for my first trip down that FNF season due to all of my surgeries. We fished the first day and had a pretty good day, I did have a 4-7 within the first couple of cast of the morning to start the day off. We were staying at the Riverfront Motel in Burkesville and had just plugged up my buddy's Triton, had the cover on her and all ready to settle in for the night. There was another boat behind us and that fella was walking to his room which happened to be right next door to ours. He asked us how we did and we told him and he said he had not caught any at all and as a matter of fact had not done much good in the couple of years he had been fishing the fly. He asked us to come into his room and look at his setup and see if anything was wrong. We went in and the first thing we saw was he was using the Crystal Fireline for both his main line and his leader. I told him his problem, he said he did not have any mono or flouro in his boat. I knew I had plenty of 6lb flouro in Cliff's boat and knew I could get to it without taking off the cover. We talked a bit and he asked us where we were from and we told him and he said "Is one of you, Elnutsmalljaws" and I told him that was me so he goes over to his suitcase and pulls out copies and copies of my post about FNF fishing at Dale. Shocked the living daylights out of me and we went out to the boat and I gave him a half spool of 6lb XPS flourocarbon for his leader to use the next day. He offered up money to which I would not take it and off to our rooms we went. We walked in and my buddy, Cliff aka chunknwind aka netboy, closes the door and says "I did not know I was fishing with a LEGEND". True story, he does not post here a lot but his logon is Ohiorick or something with Ohio in it. He is from Columbus. The next night we saw him and he had caught around 4, maybe more, with a couple over 4 pounds each. The leader was his only problem. Have not seen or talked to him since but he did post a thank you on this site when he got back. Nice fella for he convinced Cliff that he is fishign with a LEGEND, at least a LEGEND in my OWN MIND.