Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum

Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: DragonSpeed on July 26, 2005, 04:22:45 PM

Title: OK Fess up...who was it?
Post by: DragonSpeed on July 26, 2005, 04:22:45 PM

From CKNW http://www.cknw.com/news/news_xml.cfm?cat=1&rss=1&rem=14589&red=80110923aPBIny&gi=1&gm=news_local.cfm

Now here's a fishing story
Jul, 26 2005 - 3:00 AM

 
NORTH VANCOUVER/CKNW(AM980) - The lights were out in North Vancouver for about 3-thousand residents earlier Monday evening after a long cast by a young fly fisher caused a shutdown at the Norgate Substation.
Hydro's Elisha Moreno says the man was on the Capilano River when the outage occurred around ten minutes after eight, "There's sort of three lines in a layer and what happened is, he wrapped the line around them as he did the cast and pulled them back to try to get his fishing line off the power lines, and pulled them together and that causes a fault on the system."

The man's fishing line snapped, but Moreno says regardless, the risk of electrocution was quite low because the lines de-energized almost immediately.

The area bordered by Upper Levels Highway to Burrard Inlet, and Capilano Road to Hanes Road was affected.

 

Title: Re: OK Fess up...who was it?
Post by: Fish Assassin on July 26, 2005, 04:25:05 PM

Not me  ;D

Title: Re: OK Fess up...who was it?
Post by: Rodney on July 26, 2005, 05:49:44 PM

Quote from: Fish Assassin on July 26, 2005, 04:25:05 PM

Not me  ;D

Well duh, you can't cast that far. ;)

Title: Re: OK Fess up...who was it?
Post by: halorail on July 27, 2005, 05:22:44 PM

Not me

Title: Re: OK Fess up...who was it?
Post by: phatwop on July 27, 2005, 05:49:22 PM

they were casting for seagulls i think.  ;)