ColdWaterFshr

Congratulations. Very nice fish.

Belgian Golden Strong Ale - very tasty! Turned out way better than I expected. Using 2 different yeast strains really helped give it those clovey spice and banana character. Pinch of coriander too. Tastes a lot like Duvel, Delirium Tremens, Tank 7. . . . ABV close to 9% A little help from AI on the label.

Oh man, droppin a deuce on the bow at 20 knots. Too much. 🤣

Very sorry, Phil.

Don't play peek-a-boo. Stick around, Mitch. We're all good now.

Alright! Let's see the pics!

These temperature swings lately are so dramatic. Was driving I44 home yesterday from 2 nights on the Current river and temp went from 95 to 51 just a couple hours after I got home. Wind was so horrible my yakima rack was starting to lift off the back bar so I had to stop in Sullivan to fix it. Fishing wasn't great on the Current, but spent more time mid-day swimming than fishing due to the heat, it was awful. And the recent flood and wind has changed the upper river dramatically. Had 4 brutal hard portages above Ashley with trees so big that required complete unload of canoes. Never have seen that on the upper. I don't know how long it will take to get those cleared, but they are massive sycamores blocking any simple walk around passage even. Congrats on the nice fish!

Well I can help you out there ol 'timer. Take 44 to the Doolittle/Newburg exit, and proceed south on Hwy T to the quaint little hamlet of Newburg. If'n you don't stop at one of the establishments there for a friendly game of billiards and barley soda, continue on and cross the trestle and the bridge over the Little Piney and follow Hwy T south till you find one of the brown MDC signs that point you towards Milldam Hollow access that leads you down a gravel road to the access. When you encounter a meth-head, you'll know you're close. There's actually two public accesses there, relatively close. The goat farm is a left hand turn off of CR 7400 and is the first one as you're heading south on T, and MDC Milldam hollow is further south and upstream of the goat farm (another left off Hwy T). Other than that, its a lovely little stream for about 2-3 miles down from Milldam, with predictably good fishing in all the likely places.

I won't say a word.

By God, someone get on the phone with Tom Homan! Gregg Bovino and 5000 agents, fully masked of course, should descend on Steeleville and start smacking some people around. This video looks like it was shot in mid-summer, but I don't care. Maybe there is still footprints on other gravel bars nearby. There could still be many of those illegal criminals hiding in the bushes along the creekbanks. The Dow may be at 50,000, but we have a major problem here.

A buddy of mine had one. He sold it after using it twice. Ended up getting 16' canoe made of whatever the latest copycat Royalex material is. Far more versatile, more carrying capacity, and about 20 lbs lighter.