"daytripper" wrote in message
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On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:46:15 -0500, George Cleveland
wrote:

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:19:41 -0500, George Cleveland
wrote:

We're having a little smallie mini-clave on the weekend of June30-July
1st. Very low key but any of you fine gentlemen and ladies would be
greeted warmly.

http://www.wisflyfishing.com/cgi-bin...num=1180132184

g.c.


The event went off well. No one got into a knife fight although the
women doing a "girls-night-out" camping trip in the site next to ours
came very close to it. Fishing was very, very slow. Although one of
the participants returned the evening after everyone else left and
ended up with 15 bass and two walleyes in the hour and a half before
sundown.

Here are a few pics:
Wolfgang into a nice fish
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../IMG_0472b.jpg

Joel
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2..._0474Small.jpg

Joel casting to the riffles
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../IMG_0477a.jpg

One of my two bass on our Saturday afternoon float
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2.../IMG_0479a.jpg

The obligatory campfire shot
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...MG_0498a-1.jpg

Sorry there aren't more (especially more fish porn) but the river was
way up from dam releases and we were shooting along pretty well.
Dodging rocks and fiushing kept my mind off the camera.

It was great to see my ROFFian bros again.

g.c.


Some good shots, George. Thanks.
That's a pretty big piece of water for a river - which one was it again?

The Wisconsin. Haven't checked a map, but I'd guess we were at about mile
150 of roughly 400. It's a pretty good sized stream at that point, but a
mere fraction of what one finds another one or two hundred miles downstream.
And, of course, compared with the Mississippi, into which if flows, it's
just a little bit of spit. Except in the waters backed up behind the many
dams (the Wisconsin is one of those many rivers often called "the hardest
working in the nation"), it tends to be fairly shallow through much of its
length, making much of it easily (if not always safely.....pay attention to
the sirens!) wadeable. Even in my kayak, I often scraped bottom in the
three or four miles we floated. The good news is that this makes for LOTS
of convenient places to beach the boat and fish in likely looking spots.

George is right about the fishing being rather slow this past weekend, but
that's a relative evaluation. I managed to catch about ten fish on
Saturday, and another six or so on Sunday, including my biggest smallmouth
ever, at 18 or 19 inches. We tend to do much better, particularly at a very
rocky section just below a dam just a mile or two above the area where
George shot those pictures. If you're ever in the area, it's definitely
worth taking the time to fish.

Wolfgang