TR: return to smallie river
Ran it again yesterday. Bright sunny day. A bit windy. Water slighly
higher than last time. Nothing in the first 1-1.5 miles. Then we got into the fish. Fishing was not as good as the day I took 'tripper, but still good. Fished all the way back to the bridge this time. Biggest smallie was about 19", biggest chub (for you 'tripper) was about 15". Only lost 4 flies, but did manage to loose my hemostats someplace along the way. Got a slight sunburn on the ears and face. The downstream wind sped us up, ran the river in just over 6 hours. My partner was disgusted with me, I outfished him a good 5 to 1. Don't know why, he was using flies I tied :-) Best moment of the day was me finding an entirely new way to get all feckd up in the pontoon boat, with the line somehow managing to get itself tangled in the lower rear attachement strap buckle, necessitating a stop and lift of the loaded pontoon boat to unsnarl. Second best moment of the day was during the lunch stop, Mikie kept almost falling down, getting thrown off balance by his boots getting stuck in the bank mud. Flyfish laughs at him walks back to his pontoon, grabs vest, dons vest, starts to move to get back in, boots stuck does a full reverse Reid on the bank thankfully. It worked, my boot was no longer stuck! Flyfish |
return to smallie river
"Flyfish" wrote... snip Only lost 4 flies, but did manage to loose my hemostats someplace along the way. I finally bought another zinger in the hopes I won't lose a third set. -- TL, Tim http://css.sbcma.com/timj |
return to smallie river
"Tim J." wrote in news:uq8zc.18934
$Hg2.8584@attbi_s04: "Flyfish" wrote... snip Only lost 4 flies, but did manage to loose my hemostats someplace along the way. I finally bought another zinger in the hopes I won't lose a third set. I used a different approach. I bought two hemostats and will put my mini- hemostats on a zinger inside the vest. I will probably never lose another :-) Flyfish |
TR: return to smallie river
On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 20:57:06 -0500, Flyfish wrote:
Ran it again yesterday. Bright sunny day. A bit windy. Water slighly higher than last time. Nothing in the first 1-1.5 miles. Then we got into the fish. Fishing was not as good as the day I took 'tripper, but still good. Fished all the way back to the bridge this time. Biggest smallie was about 19", biggest chub (for you 'tripper) was about 15". Only lost 4 flies, but did manage to loose my hemostats someplace along the way. Got a slight sunburn on the ears and face. The downstream wind sped us up, ran the river in just over 6 hours. My partner was disgusted with me, I outfished him a good 5 to 1. Don't know why, he was using flies I tied :-) Best moment of the day was me finding an entirely new way to get all feckd up in the pontoon boat, with the line somehow managing to get itself tangled in the lower rear attachement strap buckle, necessitating a stop and lift of the loaded pontoon boat to unsnarl. Second best moment of the day was during the lunch stop, Mikie kept almost falling down, getting thrown off balance by his boots getting stuck in the bank mud. Flyfish laughs at him walks back to his pontoon, grabs vest, dons vest, starts to move to get back in, boots stuck does a full reverse Reid on the bank thankfully. It worked, my boot was no longer stuck! Flyfish Great imagery, Dave - and nice chub ;-) but I fear such narratives may be enough to dissuade Big Ed from joining you on a float =8-O /daytripper (In which case I'll take his slot! :-) |
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