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Upstream from Delaware…

Right brand, wrong model…

I had a double this week on the river. Not my first and hopefully not my last, always fun. It was windy but had a great time. You could throw about anything and I think a goggle eye would hit it. Even found some crappies vcompress_9.mov

I did take a video, for the grands, of an eerie spinning foam….🤪. But doesn’t this video make you want to grab your fishing pole and go down to the creek….. vcompress_7.mov

I got out on the river this week. Floated down to Delaware. I thought the rain from the day before would have helped with the level and flow but no. I caught a mess of goggle eyes, they were hitting everything. But you never know what you’re going to catch going down the river and as you can tell by the pictures I caught a “smorgasbord of fish”. Nothing big but the catfish was right at 22 inches on an 1/8 oz jig, and she did towed me around the river. It seemed she was swimming a pattern, on the bottom of the river, one next to the bank, one next to a stump, and one out near the center. We did this loop 4 or 5 times. But I could be wrong…. Great day on the river, released them all..

I got on the river this week and used a “new to me” trailer on my jigs. The goggle eyes were eating it up. Probably just right color, right action and right time of day, but it will be on my rod next trip. The smallmouths were very acrobatic, most of them jumped out of the river on the way back to the kayak. Caught a long skinny cat, on the jig and once again I found another walleye. She was upstream from the bridge at Shelving Rock in a small riffle 2 ft deep. Caught her on a crankbait that dives 5 ft. Great day on the river…released them all….CPR…

Pic…..

I thought Longear Sunfish were “pumpkinseeds” …..

I got on the river this week and thought I would post a couple pictures of a few of the fish. The largest bass I caught was very dark in color. I don’t think I have caught one that dark before. I had a good day catching smallmouths, goggle eyes, pumpkinseeds, a gar that got off and a couple of walleyes, someone must be stocking them on the James…..only kidding. I found the walleyes in the deep holes and caught them on crankbaits. One was pretty nice…. I did catch a fish, I thought, and while I was reeling it in it seemed sort of strange when I finally saw it, it looked like the line had wrapped around a stick with the fish caught on the lure. When it got close enough, a gar had the fish in its mouth and my lure was still in the fish’s mouth, swimming upstream. Needless to say they both got away….but they left me a story to tell….Great day on the river….released them all…..

Still recovering, so how about a couple of pictures, from my trip before the Gar float. I caught smallmouth, no pictures, cats, and a walleye…..Delaware to Shelvin….

I also caught this sad little fish…I wonder what happened to it…

Put she in the kayak for a picture…

1/8 oz jig…. I caught her on a 5 foot light action rod. She towed me up and down the river for 10 min. I had to get out of the kayak, wasn’t enough room for both her and me….but I did land and release her….I did have a rope lure but never had any luck with it.

I just had cataract surgery so while I’m setting around I thought I would post pictures of my last couple floats. For some reason I caught a Gar on both floats but when they get along side the kayak they get off. I blame boney mouth…. vcompress_2.mov vcompress_3.mov

Got out on the river last week. I would of posted earlier but sometimes living in the country and the internet don’t go together. The starting temp on the river was 37 degrees so I was layered up, but it was headed to 77, I think. I had a nice fog coming off the river to start with. Caught smalls and goggle eyes. Took a picture of the size I was catching. And I did have one picture worthy fish. I took a few pictures of the leaves but I think we need another week. I downloaded a photo compression app so I could post more pictures. Nice day to be out but too much dragging….. CPR them all…