Pacemaker Fishing Forum

Three of us were prepared to fish yesterday.  Float we picked was roaring with water which caused one to drop out.  I agreed.

Contacted the other guy and he really wanted to fish.  So did I.  So we found a float that was safe, had decent river flow, but was a drive.  Goes to show you that with enough gas, you can always catch fish.  I haven't done this float in over 30 years.  In fact, last time I did this float was at the first RiverSmallie rodeo I attended.  Sadly, both people I fished with that day are no longer with us.

Day started out chiliy but by the time we launch, we were already shedding layers.  It got up to the upper 70's.  Still glad I wore waders because water temps were still in the 40's.  Birds were everywhere, even saw a couple sand hill cranes. 

Fished tubes, grubs and swim baits.  Caught my first couple fish on the tube.  Nice bread and butter sized fish but decided not to pull out the camera. 

About 1/2 mile from the take out, saw my line tighten, rod tip bend so when in doubt, set the hook.  Took me about 10 minutes to settle the fish down enough to get it in the net.  My buddy was up river, so decided to paddle over to the shore, wedge myself in rocks that had allot of current, dig out my camera and take a pix.  This was the heaviest fish I've ever caught in Virginia. Fish didn't even fit in the net.



Got a couple pix, then released it for another day.  After getting settled back into the yak, I pushed off and noticed I had an observer  posing for a pix, so had to take it



Got home much later than anticipated and again wondered, what are all these people doing on the road?