---
title: "Lucky Charms: Happy Buddha"
date: "2019-01-22"
modified: "2019-01-22"
authors:
  - name: "Dave Hagengruber"
    link: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/authors/dave-hagengruber/"
url: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/hunting/articles-2014-12-lucky-charms-happy-buddha-2/"
categories:
  - "Hunting"
---

# Lucky Charms: Happy Buddha

![](<https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/22/EF4MCBFNGVDC74QGCMHOKGPN4Q.png>)

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I have two charms. One is a small antler point strung on a piece of orange fly line, the same line on which I caught my largest trout back in high school.

My other lucky charm is a small, cheapo emblem, a tiny pot-metal-and-green-glass Buddha, and in the right light, you can barely read “Touch Me for Luck” stamped around the little guy. My wife gave it to me back when I first headed out West on a solo fishing trip in 1987, and later that summer I wore it on the day when I crashed in an Otter floatplane up in Ontario. I credit it with saving my life since there is no logical reason why anyone was able to live through that wreck. The “lucky genie” is strung on a piece of black braided Dacron line off a reel that belonged to my grandfather, with whom I grew up fishing.

*For more lucky charms, click here.*