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[riverdog]

Hey I haven't run into a rattlesnake for 9 days[shocked] now. I'll take my chance with the bears any day. At least my dog usually chases them off. This was only the second time my dog ran from anything. The first was about 3 or 4 years ago about a half mile from this spot. We were fishing when I heard what sounded like an elephant stampeding. Looking up all of a sudden I saw a moose breaking through the willows on the elevated river bank. The dog and I were walking on gravel bed and the moose landed about 5 feet in front of where we would have been. Of course we turned around and hightailed it out of there as it jumped down. Funny thing was right after that I reflexly cast into the hole the moose ran through as I walked back up. I caught a stunted brookie out of it.
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