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No Sir! If I enjoyed eating them, I would keep s few from time to time. Sadly, I just don’t enjoy eating them.

I was Happy about that for my daughter. I have a fairly wide temperature tolerance.

I took my daughter fishing today. I think we fished about 4 hours. Since I did so poorly on the White yesterday and since she wanted to get a bigger trout than last time (Christmas Day), I took her to Norfork. Parking lot had no other boat trailers when we got there, but a couple of knuckleheads in the way. I get that it’s fun to bank fish, but don’t block the boat ramp. Just saying. I let her get a few warm up fish in the slower water near Gene’s trout dock. I could fish there too and caught a 1/2 dozen or so. I only cast a handful of times below there. Chloe got a decent Rainbow with a big Chestnut Lamprey attached. She was appropriately disgusted with the lamprey. She refreshed her casting skills and caught a couple more fish and away we went. We dropped down into Long Hole and first cast at a micro eddy she hooks a Big Cutthroat in high current. She did a good job and got him in. We pulled over and got some good pictures. That sort of set the stage. I guided her letting her cast into small back eddies. She hooked quite a few and landed probably a dozen or so all day. She had a 17 inch Cutthroat and a 16 inch Rainbow. She lost a pretty decent Brown, but did catch a smallish male Brown. I really hoped she could get a Brook Trout and complete the Slam, but it did not happen. She’s a natural at fishing like her Mom and lives and dies on every hookset like her Daddy. She got pretty aggravated with the fish that came off, but was so Happy with the ones she caught. (You could take a lesson from this John ). I look forward to our next father/daughter trip. Smallies this Spring is on the Schedule.

Thanks for keeping me humble. Geez.

My daughter wanted to fish on 2/3 so I wanted to pre-fish and be have ideas. I fished from 1:30 pm to 4:20 pm. the beautiful weather had just under 40 million boats on the river. I have honestly never seen the river that busy and I hope never to see it that busy again. I fished almost an hour before I had a bite. I sure was glad when I caught that first one. Flow was higher than I like for Jig fishing (11,500 or so) and there was some wind as well. So, I threw a jerk bait a fair amount and got one Cuttie on it and some follows. I lost my drag chain that I have had forever. My inner tube shock absorber failed on me. I will replace it. Ended up with 7 fish. One of which was my first walleye of the year. I did finally find a few fish that I could have leaned on and caught a few more, but I headed in. Still going to fish with my daughter today. Leaning towards Norfork instead.

Heck of a day Jeff!

Close enough. Lots of variation. mottled browns and greens. Sometimes amber and somes chocolate

He kept the Gar alive for 2 days!!!!! I’d give him a certificate for that. I would have caught it and immediately released it after a few pictures.

I’m just happy to have Friends.

I got friends in low places.

You do get around.

I’m 100 % fishing. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. My boat is open for 2 guests. I’ll stay at cabin or not depending on occupancy. If someone else needs the bed, I’ll sleep at my house.

I’m really Sorry to hear that Rick. Let me know what you time line is. If I can take you fishing, I’d be glad to do so. All you would have to do is wind them in. I’ll do everything else.

Liner Creek is s long cold run in a trout boat.

Negative Ghost Rider

Meh

I just can’t do it. PLEASE Let me know if they were limited to lures made out of the jerky though.

Fishing ten different ponds in a day. Dang you had it made.

I was told by a very experienced fly fisherman I met on the water that the fish get put off after s little while and you should probably be very active moving and trying new areas. I think there is some truth in that.