Oh, a good day fishing with a friend is always worth keeping the boat in place for the friend to get more fish. This is especially important if the friend is having a 'hot ' day catching, that's called support. Next time he will keep the boat steady while you fish
Peggy On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Allan Fish <afi...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > > Buck Hall and I went fishing yesterday at Chinook pits - a series of > strip mine pits in Western Indiana, about 20 miles from Illinois. > WOW. The water was up, but on Buck's very first cast with a Chili > Pepper, he caught the prettiest 9 - 10" bluegill you'd ever want to > see. We were in for a great day. NOT! > > To make a long story short, the ONLY fly that caught fish all day was > the Chili Pepper. The bad news was that it only caught 3 bluegills. > The other two were smaller. I fished very little because there was > enough wind that I was spending most of the time keeping the johnboat > where we wanted it. > > But it was a gorgeous day on the water with a good friend. And > that's what it's all about. > > > Allan > > p.s.: We had a good example of how much rain we've been having > around here. On the way home from Chinook, we stopped past Lieber > Lake (formerly Cataract Lake). We drove down to the boat ramp. BIG > lake - what's that out there? OH. The fishing platform. Looked > like it was 100 feet off-shore. I stopped at the gatehouse and asked > how high the water was. He said it is 36 feet above the beach! And > they can only drop the lake one foot in a day (it's a flood control > lake). Good grief. THIRTY SIX feet above normal pool stage. And > it's a big lake. Normally there's a 20 foot waterfall that feeds the > lake. Even that would be 16 feet underwater. Boggled my mind. > -- > Allan Fish > Greenwood, IN > afi...@sbcglobal.net > > > > -- Peggy Brenner --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to vfb-mail@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to vfb-mail-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
