We love to fish. Period. We wanted a place for us to share our experiences as well as get others to share information about fishing. Listen:

One night while night fishing from my old aluminum boat, I had put a picnic lamp (clip on lamp) with a 12v bulb in it clipped to the middle of the shore side of the boat, because my partner said he couldn't see the bank without a light of some kind. I was in the front of the boat casting ahead of the light when I got a strike that didn't seem just right. I could have sworn that it came before the lure hit the water.

However, since the fish had missed on the strike, I just retrieved the spinner bait I was fishing with and cast again. This time the strike was definitely just before the lure hit the water. I felt the strike, then I heard the splash as the lure and its capture hit the water. I fought for a second then told my partner that it must be a small fish foul hooked on the trailer because it is spinning through the water and most of its fight is just drag. About that time the end of my line came into view of the light. That's when I saw that I had caught a small brown bat, or should I say, he caught me. The little bat had caught the spinner bait flying through the air, but found that it fought back a little more than your ordinary moth or beetle. He was soaking wet, and pissed off, but he wasn't going to release his catch.

He wasn't hooked, he just had the lure in is feet and his wings wrapped around it. I had to hold him under the water at the tip of my rod for a few seconds before he
decided that he would have to let go to get air. I was worried that he would be too wet and couldn't fly, but he hit the surface, jumped into the air with the aid of his wings, and sped away. As many times as I have night fished, that's the only time I have caught a bat on the lure. I have had several hit my line, and I have even hit a few with the lure, but catching one was plenty for me.

Now tell me that's not exitement!

It is a definite mental release