Fish Sniffer On Demand Digital Edition Issue 3726 Dec 8-21 | Page 22

22 FRESHWATER Dec 7 - 21, 2018 WHAT’S HOT Continued from page 1 fight, but it was no match for my Vance’s trolling rod and a few minutes later I slid an incredible 23 inch rainbow into the net. What a great way to start the day! With the trout on my stringer, I thought about working the area some more, but I was interested in exploring so I continued south toward the island. I’d almost reached Nite. Putting one color of the leadcore in the water. The tiny spoon was working at about 5 feet deep. For 15 minutes or so, I pushed south at 1.5 miles per hour. I’d just poured myself a cup of hot coffee from my Thermos when the Dick Nite got crushed. 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This scream and the screams sandwich and some venison jerky. that followed were longer in duration. Once we got back on the water, a little There were perhaps 6 screams in all, breeze kicked up. It can blow in the high separated by 30 second to three or four- Sierra so I thought it was a good idea to minute-long periods of absolute silence. start heading back toward the ramp. That The screams were loud, booming and proved to be a good decision, since the without a better description not human. breeze matured into a wind and small There was simply too much power in the white caps started forming. sound, a man doesn’t have a chest that big. The surface disturbance did nothing but It makes my hair stand (literally right now) improve the action. On the way back to to this day. Lightning Tree, I hooked three more big My Dad was and is a very macho 1950’s trout. I lost one near the kayak, but put the guy and at that time a construction worker other two on the stringer. in top shape. He told me not to worry It had been quite a day on an amazingly that it was just a cow, BUT THEN HE beautiful lake. For an introductory trip, I LOADED THE SMITH & WESSON .357 felt we’d done really well. I had four big MAGNUM he kept in his pack! trout for the smoker and some great video I knew it wasn’t a cow then and in footage. Best of all, I had zero problems conversations with Dad now that we are with bigfoot and that of course brings us both grown men, he confides that he too back to a story I first shared in the pages of knew it wasn’t a cow. the Fish Sniffer about 18 months ago… Back in those days Dad was pretty scrappy and wasn’t afraid to get into a fist Summer 1976 fight if someone tried to impose on him, In the midst of a family vacation near so when he loaded the pistol it speaks Lake Davis, Dad hooked up with his volumes about how he perceived the buddy Billy Width, an operating engineer screams at the time. and we headed out to one of the lake’s Now days my Dad is one of those coves for some evening catfish fishing. seniors you see walking in your neighbor- The catfish were biting on night hood wearing his pants way too high, but crawlers. Dad and Billy were quietly back then he worked high rise buildings chatting about work. It was probably and was as fearless an individual as I’ve around midnight. We didn’t have a lantern, ever known…Those screams got to him! only flashlights that Was it bigfoot? I don’t have an answer. we used occasion- In years, since on TV shows I’ve heard ally. The moon was recordings of sounds like the sound I heard out and we could see at Lake Davis that are reportedly “bigfoot” okay. screaming or howling. Suddenly a I don’t know what to think about bigfoot. monstrous deep I’ve spent tons of time in the woods and bellowing scream I’ve never seen a track or trace of bigfoot, erupted on a point but I just don’t know what generated those on the far side of screams I heard more than 40 years ago. the cove hundreds What I do know is that those screams of yards away. The were not from a human, not a cow, nor a scream went on for deer, or bear, or coyote or cougar or from a bit longer then anything that naturally occurs in that area. it seemed like it Total Mystery! 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