Finally Back to the River!!!
REB9 09/05/2008 - 19:21 Trip Reports River Roll Your Own
Wow, can't believe it is September already. The monsters are back in school, work is going full bore, summer vacations are over. What to do, what to do... With Hanna heading for us real fast, I decided I needed to spend some quality time on the river before the deluge. I PM'd SMALLJAW, MUSKALUNGEE, SPOTHOGG and OGBUDHA to see if they had a kitchen pass today. No takers by 7AM, so off to the reever all by my lonesome. I launched the boat around 8AM and found the river running low, clear and full of salad! A beautiful morning to be alive. Found the fish to still be in summer patterns. Caught several dinks and a couple real nice fish. As I had to renew my drivers license and change the oil in the GMC, I pulled chocks before lunch and headed for the ranch. After I finished up my chores, I decided to head back out for the PM bite. Hooked the James River Jet back up to the truck and waited for my 8 year old son Patrick to get home from school. As soon as he noticed the boat connected to the truck he lit right up and said, "when we going"...... Now was the answer and off we went.
The wind picked up from this morning and the clouds of Hanna were rolling north. We headed upriver through the ledges and grass. Learning my grass lesson from this morning I chose a Texas rigged 6 inch plastic worm as my go to lure with the CASE Salty Sinking Shad rigged on my back-up. The trusty Stinko was in ready reserve. Patrick chose a 4 inch grub. We started on a mid-river drift with the drag chain slowing the boat to a crawl. Patrick scored first with a nice 12 incher. The boy really lights up when he gets a "tugger" on. I scored a few dinks to get the stink off the front of the boat. Four drifts later, we both caught several fish with two real nice ones dancing for the camera.
Sure was great to be on the river again. Saw lots of fish in the clear water including a musky that looked to be around 36 inches. No bald eagles today, just some cormorans and geese.
Looked forward to the upcoming flush. Hopefully we will lose some of the grass.
See you on the water!
REB9
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The wind picked up from this morning and the clouds of Hanna were rolling north. We headed upriver through the ledges and grass. Learning my grass lesson from this morning I chose a Texas rigged 6 inch plastic worm as my go to lure with the CASE Salty Sinking Shad rigged on my back-up. The trusty Stinko was in ready reserve. Patrick chose a 4 inch grub. We started on a mid-river drift with the drag chain slowing the boat to a crawl. Patrick scored first with a nice 12 incher. The boy really lights up when he gets a "tugger" on. I scored a few dinks to get the stink off the front of the boat. Four drifts later, we both caught several fish with two real nice ones dancing for the camera.
Sure was great to be on the river again. Saw lots of fish in the clear water including a musky that looked to be around 36 inches. No bald eagles today, just some cormorans and geese.
Looked forward to the upcoming flush. Hopefully we will lose some of the grass.
See you on the water!
REB9
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