A buddy of mine was just about to be discharged from the Air Force at Luke AFB, Arizona and return home back east. Being an avid hunter, he ask me if I would take him on a mountian lion hunt before he left as he may never get the opportunity again. I planned a trip to the rim rock country around Sedona, good lion country. We arrived late on a very dark, moonless night and, still pumped up from the trip, decided to go trout fishing in Oak Creek Canyon nearby, even though we couldn't see our hand in front of our face without a flashlight. The creek was flowing quiet, so quiet you could hear the salmon egg we were using for bait make a plop when it hit the water. We fished in the dark quiet for a long time with no luck until finally I made a long smooth cast and , just as I was wondering why I didn't hear my bait "plop" in the water, my line went tight and my pole bent hard. I set the hook and began to reel in. Well, I was just a little bewilderd when my pole tip was pulled straight up towards the sky! I cranked in and my pole kept flopping form one side of the heavens to other. Flying fish in Arizona? WHAT WAS GOING ON!l I reeled until I felt a thump at the end of the pole, layed it on the ground and told my buddy to put a flashlight on it. His light revealed that the ugliest bat I've ever seen had taken the bait for a bug flying through the air and snatched it. I got the creature un-hooked and free and we decided to cash it in for the night. The two of us spent the next two days sneaking thru the rim rock country looking for mountain lion and never picked up a sign or a track, but I have a strong hunch that at least one lion was snickering and watching us the whole time! So that's how I caught a bat while trout fishing on a mountian lion hunt.....

Gonna be hard to top that one! :D