Also fishing related:

We have one buddy who is so lucky he can catch fish in a drainage ditch. We use centre-pin reels for steelhead fishing.

One night, while we were relaxing in his camper, I stripped off about 35 yards of line, cut it, then wrapped it back on the reel. It was just beyond the length of a normal cast.

Next day, buddy was fishing about 100 yards downstream. We heard him hollar "Fish on!" and waited for the inevitable. After a few good headshakes, the fish went into a run - and kept on running, while my buddy was standing there with an empty rod. He near to turned the air blue.

In 1992 while on a fishing trip in Alaska we had a fellow named Harry along. It was his first trip to Alaska. We of course had been telling him scary bear stories. I go up early one morning and was taking a walk up the trail to take my own constitutional when I came across a pile of bear shit that was steaming almost as much as my cup of coffee. I ran back to camp, got a boat paddle, retreived the bear shit, and carefully layed it across the toes of Harry's hip boots (two trips). I took a seat on a log about thirty feet away, and sat as quietly as a guy in a leopard blind. I almost peed my pants with anticipation.
After about fifteen minutes Harry came out of his tent. He started to slip out of his camp moccasins and into his boots when he realized what was on them........

Ray you are a devious man. Glad to see I come by it honestly.

JCN

A good black rubber snake always does the trick and have never laughed so hard than the times when this is used It is great to use in the truck, in a blind or in the hunters bed. I have seen everything from people trying to jump out of the truck to get away from the rubber snake, to a client actually shooting a hole in his mattress trying to kill the bloody thing. I think the best though was when I had the tent boy put the rubber snake in the sheets of the bed of a client. He was there with his playboy model girlfriend, so thought we would see how he reacted when going to bed Of course we stayed up by the fire to see or hear the reaction when they got into bed. All we heard was a loud scream and then the girlfriend almost breaking the tent zipper getting out and she ran right to us at the fire with only a pair of small underwear on and her hands trying to hide everything else. The client then followed still trying to put his underwear on. We almost fell backward into the river laughing so hard at them. Lucky for us they also broke down laughing and could not beleive what just happened. They never even saw the rubber snake, but we found out from them that they were getting ready to get busy with each other and when they laid down on the bed, she laid right on the soft snake. She pushed him off the bed and started screaming snake and ran out, and he followed her out not knowing what the hell was going on. Good thing she was used to modeling and did not mind showing her body off Not a good idea to use in a leopard blind though, unless you are ready to leave that blind or decided that you will not sit there anymore. I did this in a crocodile blind one time and had the client actually kick the back wall down getting out of the blind.

The only rule this trick though is that you have to make sure you do it to people that you know will forgive you afterwards. I would never dream of doing it with some clients, and is very important to pick and choose the victims of this joke. I had another client steal my pet rubber snake once and use it back on me and hide it under my seat, then asked me to get him his knife that he said he put under my seat. When I reached under my seat and felt that snake I also slammed the brakes and jumped out of the car. He was smart and only did it when we were in an open area, or I probably would have hit a tree. Anyway, this is a great joke, but also make sure the other person has a good heart and no pace maker on, or the joke may back fire This joke always works as people are deathly scared of snakes INCLUDING myself. Have not done this joke in a long time now, and may have to try again next month when in tanzania with clients.

What a lowdown dirty trick.

If you did that to me, after I took a shot at the snake in the bed and found out it was fake, I'd have to go outside and shoot the real snakes by the campfire.

Matt,

I can see that this trick could be extra convincing when you grin at the others with brown chocolate stuff running down your teeth! Is this perhaps what is called a "shit-eating grin"?

Erik D.

Read this long ago in a Patrick McManus story and it has served me well many times. Take along a supply of the box candy "Milk Duds". When encountering "droppings", act as if you are seriously studying them and drawing info from the "sign". Pick one up and closely exam it. Then deftly exchanging a previously concealed Milk Dud for the critter turd, take a bite of it, nod aprovingly, and announce how old it is and what the deer/impala/rabbit have been eating.

This has impressed the hell out of my sons when they were quite small, several new hunting partners, and a couple game scouts I've been around in Africa.

The trick is the convincing facial expressions.

While on an elk hunt in Colorado we decided to get up a couple of hours before sunrise and hike up to a far away moutain meadow with plans to get there near sunrise. The hike was entirely uphill. Before leaving we loaded up one of my buddy's backpack with rocks, not so many he would immediately figure out our plan, but enough that he would be dying by the time we reached the summit.... I'm just glad I was a long way from him later that morning when he finally opened up his pack to eat some breakfast! That said, have no doubt what goes around comes around!

In most elk camps the latrine is simply a 4" log tied between two trees and a shallow hole...place this where you have a blind in the rear...while one of your cronies is taking a dump slip a shovel out and obscond with his feces..Everyone looks to see how they did, some with pride, other not, but when its gone, the reaction is worth the suffering!! sometimes scary!!!

I could write a book on such antics, after all I have hunted with Saeed, who is always accompanied by Walter for several years..One does not sleep well in that camp and I always keep a loaded gun handy...

I thought this might be a fun thread to hash out. I'm about to embark on a trip and I know from past readings that I've seen the occasional good joke from you nuts. Care to share them in one thread?

I'm usually a pretty serious hunter but my upcoming trip, elk in Wyoming, will have some down-time where I might be able to have some "fun."

Thanks in advance.

Reed

Chili pepper flakes in the toes of someone's socks is a good one; it takes a while for the heat to build.

George