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I had asked John to let me know when he wanted to get out and do a little wade fishing, so today we went. We met at 7a on the North Fork of the Shenadoah River.  Last time I waded anything was the Rose River back in Sep. 2015. And that river is more like a creek...

I had some concerns but John assured me it would be a fairly easy wade, which it was.

So off we went!



As we went up river, I saw that he was in past his waist (he's 6'4") so I was getting very wet but the water was warm so no biggie.



I started with a Carolina Blue Sneaky Pete and hooked up with a LMB!



Then I proceeded to lose it in the trees...aargh!

I then switched to a popper that was tied by Bob's dad many moos ago. It's supposed to attract bigger fish!

This BG was hungry!



I caught a few more BG's and a couple of small LMB as I moved up river.



Then I heard John talking so a couple of yakers up river form me. I looked up and this guy was just meandering across the river.



Now it was time to go back downriver and I noticed that every bite I was getting was near wood and in the shade so I concentrated on three areas and it paid off.

I caught fish on 3 consecutive casts at one point.



One of them gave me a huge thrill. It slammed my fly and there was some weight to it. I almost yelled up to John but then realized I had caught a BG and a pound of algae! Ha! Joke was on me.

And then some more so I started playing with the camera.







My last fish was this nice pumpkinseed!



All told I had a hundred follows, several dozen nips, 3 hooked fish that I lost, 3 LMB, 2 SMB and 9 BG's.

It was a fun outing.

At one point, I saw a decent sized smallie near a log and I bet I stalked it for 45 minutes. I actually caught a smaller BG and the smallie was right behind it. I needed another rod! I think he tried to bite me once but I was never able to stick him.

We were done by 12:30p and after drying out a bit, we ate lunch at a Mexican place that served a huge (and good ) burrito!