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When we 1st chatted about fishing today, I had told George that I wanted to try out of White's Ferry. But I got to thinking about it and changed plans to go out of Lander which is 25-30 minutes closer.

We left my house shortly after 7:30a with a quick MickeyD's stop for a breakfast sammie.

The ride to Lander was uneventful since today was a holiday thus no traffic. However, that could mean that we would see some trailers at the parking lot. Yep, when we got there there were 3-4 trailers and I told George that I really didn't want to mess with boat traffic so off to White's Ferry we went. Hey, we are both retired now so what's another 30 minutes?

As we were getting close to the ramp, I mentioned to George, "watch there be 5 trailers in the lot". Sure enough, that was the number but as we found out later, most of them were cat fishing. No bother to us.

On the water by 9:15a and 1st fish on at 9:30a!!



A nice, pale 14"er! Was this a good sign for the day? I know, I gave away the location but that would be our only bite there.

We tried downriver a bit and all we got was a lost lure in the bushes. It was too shallow for me to try to retrieve it.

The sun was out and it  felt so good. Not chilly at all.

The water temps there was 40dF.

So now, we made a run up river but man, was it a cold ride. I finally stopped and told George that I could take no more so we started fishing. Not sure if we got any bites initially but it was now noon and George said,  "you ready for lunch". What kind of questions is that?  "Heck yea" was my answer.





Another great Dagwood from George!

I remember marking some deep water back when the water was low and clear so we headed for it and Gorge took his skunk off with a tub of a 15.5"er!



Yep..we whooped it up pretty good as we both had our 1st 2023 smallies in the boat!

I also remembered some deep water by a particular house...well, mansion. We headed there and I was able to get my 2nd fish of the year!



BTW, all three of the fish came off of one of George's home made jigs. The bites were almost non existent! And all 3 fish came relatively close to the shore line. We got notin' down the deep middle.

At some point, it started to drizzle and it got noticeably cooler but once George put on his rain jacked, it settled down again.

We floated some more and I made a cast. About half way through it, I gave up and started reeling in because there was a boat behind us. I look back, and this smallie torpedoes out of the water. What? I looked at George in bewilderment. He says, " dude, he was following you"!

You never give up on a cast! Ever!!

We fished some more but no bites (that we knew of). We both wondered how many fish licked our lures. We will never know.

Overall, the day was pleasant...except for the ride up river. And I wish the sun had stayed out longer to help push the temps up another degree or 2 but the clouds won that battle.

Both of us earned participation trophies and George got the big fish award and I got the most fish award.

We giggled like kids on the way home! Nice day out and caught our 1st smallies of 2023!