So there I was, inspired by Tony’s wonderful tale, getting ready to load up the Jeep (or rather getting ready to unload the back so I could load my rod & pack) when it started raining. Rain doesn’t usually bother me, so I went back in to get rain gear when It started pouring. That didn’t bother me as much, so I went back to change my footwear, but there’s something about waving 8 ½ feet of carbon around when there’s lightning that gave me pause…
From: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com [mailto:vfb-m...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Anthony Spezio Sent: Tuesday, July 07, 2009 2:00 PM To: vfb-mail@googlegroups.com Cc: flyfishingandflytyingforpanf...@yahoogroups.com Subject: [VFB] Fishing last Thursday and Friday Finally getting time to post this. We have family here from N.J. and Oklahoma. They are grand kids and great Grand Kids.along with the adults. The White river has been running a lot of water so I was not able to take the kids out in the boat to fish. On Thursday afternoon we decided to check out the lake. It was still high but we did find a spot where the kids could fish. It was a bit steep and brushy. Checked out the brush and let the kids get down to the water. The lake water was over a lot of brush that is normally out of the water so a lot of hang ups were expected. We rigged up the kids who range in age from five to nine, with spinning rods bobbers and worms. They started catching Bluegills almost at once. One of the four year old Great Grand Twin caught a real nice Largmouth about 12". I rigged up my fly rod, tied on a Peacock and Bronze and started catching Gills from about the second cast. I did get hooked up in the underwater brush and lost a couple of flies. The kids did too but we were able to fish. I got about 10 gills before we quit, it was just getting too hot. My son in law wanted to fish so I told him we would check out Crooked Creek early Saturday morning. The Creek had been too high to fish for a while. We drove over to the creek early Friday morning and found it still high but it was wadeable, you had to be careful. I was using my 7/9 bamboo rod and my son in law was using the 7' bamboo rod I made for him 10 years ago.We tied on a couple of Peacock and Bronze and got in the creek. Before I started to cast, my son on law was already on to fish. In spite of the creek being a bit high, swift current and a bit colored, we were catching a good number of Gills. Then Steve got the first Small Mouth, it was not a very big one but his first. A bit later I got a Smallie, Then some more gills and he caught another Smallmouth about 9".. Working up the creek, we would hit hot spots that would yield 8 to 10 Gills. I was only able to get up to the first riffle but Steve went up to the "Carp" hole. He got into a couple of Small Mouths up there. He said he could see some real large Smallies but could not entice them. It was starting to get hot so I was about ready to head back to the van. I got back and took off my waders and thought Steve was right behind me. I was getting worried after about a half hour and was going to go back to the creek and check on him. I finally saw him coming through the brush. He was on his way back down when he hit a hole that was producing fish. He told me he took about 30 Gills from that one hole.. We lost count long before we quit but I know we took over 100 gills and Smallmouths along with a Roach and a couple of Goggle Eyes in the 4 1/2 hours we fished. It was a good day for both of us. Arkansas Tony Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.5/2220 - Release Date: 07/07/09 05:53:00 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
