TR: Big River, Big Smallies, Great Friends

On Mon, 24 May 2004 17:21:57 -0500, Flyfish wrote:

daytripper wrote in
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On Mon, 24 May 2004 00:33:38 -0400, Mu Young Lee
wrote:

On Mon, 24 May 2004, daytripper wrote:

The largest we caught was 19 inches

The great daytripper making specific reference to size in a trip
report. What has this world come to?

"...dogs and cats, living together! Mass hysteria!"

... hmmmmm, 19" and fat .... should be pushing 4+ lbs at least . nice
one

I have no idea on the weight but they were as fat as they could be and
still put up a great fight. Not quite footballs with fins but damned
close. Dave took film cough pictures so it'll be awhile afore y'all
see dem beauties...

If we can find an earlier take out I'm definitely gonna do that float
again!

/daytripper


My film camera is waterproof, I didn't notice your digital anywhere in
sight....

Easiest answer: you were the designated photographer ;-)

/daytripper (You could have caught more chubs instead of shooting pics :-P

On Tue, 25 May 2004 00:04:06 GMT, Frank Church
wrote:

Flyfish wrote in
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Nice TR Tripper, it was a pleasure. I hope you were not too sore the
next day after the 2 miles of paddling hell at the end. I was
surprised that I wasn't sore in a host more places than I was.

Frank, you know the spot, cu in a couple weeks :-)


...damn tootin' Dave. Trips TR has me drooling all over this
keyboard..yeeehaaaa! :-))))

You better start eating your spinach right now, Frank. These are gee-damned
BIG bass that'll have their way with you if you don't beat 'em up first ;-)

/daytripper (Centrum Silver ;-)

daytripper wrote in
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...damn tootin' Dave. Trips TR has me drooling all over this
keyboard..yeeehaaaa! :-))))

You better start eating your spinach right now, Frank. These are
gee-damned BIG bass that'll have their way with you if you don't beat
'em up first ;-)

/daytripper (Centrum Silver ;-)

...I know, I know Trip. The scene keeps replaying over and over in my mind
of the one that hit my bug last year and tailwalked for 10' (alright, maybe
9') That sucker pulled my rod down too far and broke me off (at a wind
knot) He had me from the word go. I ain't coming up there for just one
lousy float trip this year (gotta make that high-priced gas stretch ya
know)

Frank Church

On Tue, 25 May 2004 02:38:12 GMT, Frank Church
wrote:

daytripper wrote in
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...damn tootin' Dave. Trips TR has me drooling all over this
keyboard..yeeehaaaa! :-))))

You better start eating your spinach right now, Frank. These are
gee-damned BIG bass that'll have their way with you if you don't beat
'em up first ;-)

/daytripper (Centrum Silver ;-)

..I know, I know Trip. The scene keeps replaying over and over in my mind
of the one that hit my bug last year and tailwalked for 10' (alright, maybe
9') That sucker pulled my rod down too far and broke me off (at a wind
knot) He had me from the word go. I ain't coming up there for just one
lousy float trip this year (gotta make that high-priced gas stretch ya
know)

Ok, but how 'bout for one *awesome* float trip? ;-)

But seriously, Dave is working out a bunch of float plans.
I think he got bit even harder than I did. And the Andy is a long-ass river,
you could float a different section every day for weeks...

/daytripper (that'd be tasty!)

You must have had one HELL of a trip! I can't remember you ever being so
psyched about a fishing trip in the time I've been reading ROFF.

Looking forward to seeing Dave's pix.

Willi

daytripper wrote in
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On Mon, 24 May 2004 17:19:56 -0500, Flyfish
wrote:

Nice TR Tripper, it was a pleasure. I hope you were not too sore the
next day after the 2 miles of paddling hell at the end. I was
surprised that I wasn't sore in a host more places than I was.

Great fun, nice trip, big fish, good company. We had so much fishing
to do that I never did pop open that bottle of wine I brought along
for our shore lunch, we just wolfed down a sandwich and kept on
fishing.

I had one fish that I lost at the net that I think would have gone
well over 20", I was thinking between 22-24". I just grinned and cast
out again.

And yeah I was the chub master, catching a bunch of 1 -1.5 lb chubs
that fought pretty well on their own.

Tripper did a good job of analyzing the deficiencies of the pontoons
and some corrective action will be in place before the next outing.

And Trip enjoy the bottle of bug repellent! (it's a virgin bottle) :-)
We never did get around to needing any as the weather kept the black
flies and mosquitos down all day.

Frank, you know the spot, cu in a couple weeks :-)

Riding those things is like floating along in an easy chair. Even for
the rowing at the end - that I could do without ;-) - I don't feel
sore today. Nice.

Yeah it's not that bad and next time we'll take out just below that barge
and save an hour of rowing.

I actually was thinking about that wine while we were eating lunch on
that huge granite slab. That thought lasted for about five seconds
before I was back to thinking about those huge green trout!

I thought about it too, oh well next time, it'll be aged some :-)
I also had a 6 pack of Summer Ale in the fridge but forgot to pack it,
doh!

As for the bug dope: You have it back, unopened - thankfully!
I put it in one of the dry bags before we set sail.

Hmm I didn't notice it when I was opening up the bags to dry out. Have to
look again.


And I cannot conceive of a 24" version of what we were catching.

/daytripper (It would blot out the sun!)

ps: Weekends on the Rapid are utterly out of the question. Friday
afternoons are pretty bad as well. I think we'll be doing a lot of
smallie fishing this year...


Naw we've got to go up to Solon before the end of June and float that.
Best bet would be to room up there and depart the launch area about 7am
so we'd be at the takeout by dark, that's a 9 miler. And it's beautiful.

I had pretty much written off the Rapid for weekends anyway. The past
couple of years it's been really crowded, the price of fame I guess.

Flyfish

daytripper wrote in
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Easiest answer: you were the designated photographer ;-)

Twit!

Flyfish

On Mon, 24 May 2004 21:35:32 -0600, Willi wrote:

You must have had one HELL of a trip! I can't remember you ever being so
psyched about a fishing trip in the time I've been reading ROFF.

Well, it was the first freshwater outing of the year. And fishing with Dave is
always memorable cough (= that's for Dave ;-) so I was primed anyway.
But combined with the unbelievably good, hassle-free day of fishing on this
river definitely imparted a good dose of exuberance. I'm telling ya, we were
giggling like kids most of the day, it was that much fun.

Looking forward to seeing Dave's pix.

Me too. The light was horrible and the camera man was bobbing like a cork, but
hopefully the shutter speed wasn't too slow.

/daytripper (who might be a blur but felt rather sharp ;-)