Summary
Even though the extremely shallow water at the local boat launch ramp adjacent to the Route 301 bridge over the Rappahannock River provided plenty of excitement each of the two men who pushed away from the dock weighed nearly 300 pounds it couldn't compare to Dick Fox's rising adrenaline when the huge fish he thought he had hooked turned out to be an irate furbearer that can fell an oak tree if he has a mind to do it.
"It's big," said Fox, who sat in the front of a water jet- powered bass boat of the kind usually seen in rock-strewn mountain waters. Fox stood on the power pedal of an electric trolling motor, keeping his boat steady against an ebbing tide, hanging onto a fishing rod that was precariously bent, with line streaming from the reel whenever the creature on the other side felt like stripping some of it from the baitcaster.See the full content of this document
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Beavers, Bass Bite On Rappahannock
"It's coming to the surface," said Fox, watching the line rise through the river water.
That was quickly followed by a very large beaver who somehow had been hooked in the back when Fox cast to a sunken tree in hopes of finding a largemouth ba...See the full content of this document
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