Pray for rain/snow or learn to fish for chickens

[BrownBear]

Like my Pig, those Gophers have the teeth to back-up that PO'd attitude. So what did your creative mind come up with?

Same as with PO'd bats that grab midair dry flies: Deep swimming lessons on a short leader. A bucket of water rather than the river, in the case of the gophers.

[WadeK]

Midger,
40# on an Penn Long Beach and an 8' Jig stick.
I'll pass on the Gopher Sausage.
Meb,
I don't mix alcohol and firearms, so not in the execution of our duties, but Tequilla definitely played a part in the planning stages.

Tight lines,
Wade

[briansII]

I caught a wild boar that weighed 85#. My buddy had a field of bell peppers that was getting raided. We got a depradation permit and sliced up a bag of apples. I used a surf rod and a 1/4 of an Apple. Being on the ground wasn't my brightest idea, I should have been in the bed of the truck. Aiming my .45 while trying to keep control of the pig with the rod was nearly impossible. Mike chickened out and jumped in his truck the 1st time the pig charged. That was definitely the hardest fighting critter I've ever had on my line. The noise was just amazing. There wasn't any crop damage the next 3 nights.

Tight Lines,
Wade

"Here, hold my beer and watch this........"

Those situations rarely ended well for me.

briansII

[Windtalker]

I never heard of such uses of fishing rods before, ha! I hope the rods outlived the gopher and pig hook-ups?