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Today was my 1st venture to a river on my 13' kayak. I met Josh Turner and Herschel Finch at Josh's house which is about 12 miles south of Front Royal. Herschel was in a sit in kayak.....



.....I was in my sit on top kayak.....



.....and Josh was in his pontoon.....



It was a beautiful day for this 3 mile float. We all caught a few small smallies (less than 10") but they gave us nice fights.

Here is one of them.......



About 1/2 way into the trip, I got a nice hit and a big fight ensued. It was a bigger fish but it was not behaving like a small mouth bass. After a brief fight, I brought him yak side and it was a horsehead sucker!!



Ugly!!

Josh and Herschel used both spinning and casting gear while I stayed with the fly rod (6 wt) for 90% of the time.

Anyway, I was pleased with this 1st outing and I got more familiar with handling the kayak. Even got to shoot some very tame rapids.....pretty cool!

Ernie