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Yep, 2 days in a row!

Trying to get out on the river has been tough this summer/fall due to a myriad of reasons. You take what life gives you...

Today, George met me at the ramp at 7:45a (we were both early) but we didn't splash the boat until after 8:30a.

Here's why: Also at the ramp were 2 guides with their rafts and clients. I know both guides, John Hayes and William Heresniak. So we chatted a bit. No, a lot! It turns out that their clients are up here from Florida (trying to get away from Milton) and have a bunch of trips lined up. We got to talking to the crew and we simply lost time. The convos were interesting but the best part is that one of the clients is a guide form Hollywood FL who specializes in Peacock Bass. That got my attention as I get down to FL occasionally.

Anyway, we finally decided to go fishing!

I told George that I wanted to visit some of my old haunts that I fished when I had my 12' row boat (4hp air cooled engine) and 14' jon boat (9.9 HP form 1969). As he always says, "I'm good with whatever, you are the skipper". So we did.

The 1st spot didn't produce anything and we almost got stuck. A little re balancing of weight on the boat took care of things.

We went to the 2nd spot and saw the 2 rafts motoring down (they have teeny gas motors on them) to Seneca Breaks to start their trip.



...very cool to see. I hope they did well.


The 2nd spot didn't do much until George said: "fish on!, a big one!". But then he said, "I think it's a catfish". I got a glimpse and I said, "nope, it's a big ole wallleye!". George simply said, "cool!".

We netted it and here it is!



It was 24.5" on the dot...what a fish!

I told George that we could go home now but we went to another old hangout.

While we only got a few nips here, it was nice to fish it again.

Then we saw this...



This floating deck was well made. Someone spent some time and $$ on it. Very cool.

We decided to run up river and I was diverted by a well know rock on a shore line. I set the boat up and started drifting with the intent of attacking the rock form the front, side and back. Thai is, until someone turned on a switch that produced 15+ mph wind. What? George said that the well paid weather person predicted winds at 2p. It was only 11a!

Anyway, I did catch a 10" smallie (maybe) there so my skunk was off.

We ran up river and saw another boat so I decided to go chat with them. The 1st thing they said was: "as soon as you came up river, the winds cranked up!". That was funny. They had put in at Edwards and were getting ready to go back and probably fish the Goose. The wind we obnoxious to say the least.

I told George that the next spot would be less windy so we went.

George pointed out an eddy but we had no luck but just down from that, there was another one. I got bit but the fish did not hand on but I kept twitching and I got nailed. Nice fish! But he cut me off.

Then, I moved over to another bank and I hear, "fish on, nice one!".

Yep, a very healthy 16.75"er!



Now we are tied for smallies at 1!

The wind was still blowing (lots of movement in the trees) so we decided to eat lunch. As always, George makes one of his famous dagwoods. I asked for a smaller one this time as the last one was monstrous. It did not disappoint.





Let's see if I can remember: shaved corned beef, ham, honey turkey, provolone, Swiss, onions, maters and lettuce (seasoned, of course).

It's hard to restart the fishing after that!

But we did.

I caught a little one to take the smallie lead but George then caught another fatso. A very nice 16.5"er!

So...where is the pic? I have no clue. It was my job to get it and I failed miserable.

Here is another pic of George's walleye to make up for it!



We floated (surfed, really) some more and George caught a small one follows by my biggest of the day. 



We called it at 1:30p because I was getting very frustrated trying to manage the boat. Also, George knew that I had ball practice later and needed to rest the tired, old body.

Great day out on the water!