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I met up with Curly and Bruce at 0530 and on down the road to Gravelly we went. In the old days, Curly and I would be on the water at 0530. Oh well....   

Anyway, it was a gorgeous morning....



....but it is a slow ride up to the fishing grounds.

Our 1st stop at a known striper hole did not produce so Curly wanted to go up above Chain Bridge. I was ready even though I had not done it in years. But I always feel comfortable with Curly's know how. It took us a few tries before we got the anchor to hold but once it did, we were in a spectacular part of the river.



I think I caught the 1st fish but it was a herring that hit a shad dart. A few minutes later I hooked into something but it was all 65lb braid. I wanted it out of  the water so I started bringing it in, Cuban yo yo style. To my surprise, there was a fish on the line



A nice channel cat! I didn't hook him but I caught him. I got some ribbing from the crew.....

We were all catching herring on the darts and finally a hickory shad made an appearance.

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But we got no stripers so on down the river we went. As we sped down river, we jigged and threw rattletraps but right before some rocks, both FF screens lit up and we knew that's were we wanted to be so we anchored.

Then...it was hammer time! We slammed the hickories....







This was one of Curly's 10 doubles!



More hickories....





Finally, I got a better hit and it was a convict!



Curly got one too!



And the hickories kept slamming our lite tackle!





A few notes:

1. Curly's caught 10 doubles, I caught one (Bruce did not get a double)!

2. When Curly and Bruce sat down to eat a sammie, I caught 10 hickories...while I ate my sandwich.

3. Bruce hooked a decent carp but he got off.

4. Green/yellow is what they wanted....we did get a couple on white/red.

5. On the way back, I caught a non legal size striper on a rattletrap.

6. We caught at least 100 Hshads, Curly had at least 50!!

7. It really was a nice day to out on the water, we all enjoyed it to the max!