2008 has been a fantastic year hunting, and fishing. Since it's coming to a close my brother, and I wanted to get in one more (Pretty Adventurous) trip. When you put these things together you never know what you're going to get. It's like the Pennslvania Lotto's motto was (at least when I was a kid) "You Have to Play to Win". Today was an epic day. We floated about 7 miles of lets just call it River X. We managed 3 Geese, 1 Crow, and around 8-9 Smallmouth. I missed a Hen Mallard, and we missed a few Crows as well. The Digital caller helped to fill in some down time on the slow stetches. I'll get some pictures on our next Crow Hunt. We have around 5, or 6 in the past couple months, but didn't take pictures. River X is normally our go to Summer Smallmouth River, but this time of year it was obviously very hard fishing as should be expected. I brought my 8 weight, but never even got it out. If you aren't catching them on spinning tackle with regularity what is the point. It just ends up being casting practice. In one of the pics is the dam where the water is released from. We had full generation first thing in the morning, and they cut it off around 11, or 12. The takeout as you can see has some good 4 letter words, and racist rhetoric on the supports. It has been our experience that if you have at least one of those elements it's normally a good hunting, or fishing place. I highly recommend packing though.
If your curious the boats we are using are 14.5 Native Ultimates. They make them in North Carolina. Many of the rivers we fish are very rocky, and they take a beating. Also they have a Tunnel Hull style bottom, so as you can see you can stand up in them. Standing up makes fly casting infintely easier. This is our second year fishing these boats, and they are amazing.
Enjoy....
Chris
Chris
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