Float Next Week

[steve l]

Wife & I going next Sunday 7/20 thru Friday Greer to 142. Hopefully we don't have the same type of adventure we had on the Jacks Fork in May.

Floods leave any interesting spots not there before I need to be aware/careful of? Trees down etc?

River still humming along pretty good? But looks like its possible it may even drop below 4 foot.

I saw the reports on the trout waters, any reports on the smallie bite 160 & below?

Hmmm, that seems a bit sparse.

Lot of packing & getting what can be pre-cooked or prepped pre-cooked or prepped today.

How about our menu for the week?

Foil wrapped mahi-mahi with tomato & parmesean and a bit of ginger sprinkled on. Wild rice as a side. This will be an ok dinner.

Marinaded buffalo steak with mashed potatoes, mushrooms, onions. Need to be careful not to overcook the tatonka, but hard to wrong w/steak & potatoes.

Buffalo slow cooked w/chipotles, Anaheims, diced tomatoes, onions, and a touch of lime on hoagies with refried beans as a side. A really good meal - already looking forward to it.

Dry-rubbed pork tenderloins wrapped in corn husks cooked either over or in the coals w/sweet corn on the cob.

Penne paste w/shrimp & morels in a cream based sauce. This is also a good meal, but hopefully the pasta holds being pre-cooked. Dried morels, will soak and add on the river.

And I see a beer or two to go along with dinner.

Dang, getting hungry just typing that.

Any favorite meals out there to consider in the future?

[Brian Sloss]

If you want to add good smallmouth action, start 7.5 miles above Greer at Cane Bluff. There is plenty of water this year and the bite has been good.

[steve l]

Brian - appreciate the reponse & suggestion. Had though about going above Greer but it just doesn't work for the time we will be on the river & known gravel. I also want to go below 160, so that just gets to be too much paddling.

Going w/spinning gear. I think I'll have 3 rods rigged, 1/6 oz black rooster tail (prefer 1/8, but we'll start heavier w/the river being higher and see what happens), 1/8 black jig (prefer 1/16, but ditto), probably rebel craw. My wife will have a spinner rigged, and likely something else.

Anything you'd add in to the mix? Whatever it is go deep?

Kindof curious - how's business been? $4 gas and the general economy keeping people away?

Forecast is looking like hot. Maybe summer is finally getting here.

[Brian Sloss]

Panther Martins are doing well. We have a single hook version at the shop that works really well for easy releases in the trophy area. I'd bring some 1/16 oz marabou jigs as well.

[Garret]

WIfe nad I were going to float the 20th as well. Can anyone let me know what the crowd is like now on the 11-point, say like on a sunday around this time of the year. We do not want to go if it is going to be full of crazies. We may wait till Monday depending on the waether.

I have read a few posts that make it sound kind of busy and rowdy down there now. It has been 2 years or so since we were there so I am wondering if it has changed.

[Brian Sloss]

Nothing has changed in regard to the crowds in the last two years. Sundays are fine, Sat is the busiest day, but that is still a fraction of what you see on, say, the Current.

[steve l]

garret - where you putting in & taking out? a day float, you camping?

[Garret]

garret - where you putting in & taking out? a day float, you camping?

Camping at Greer. Putting in there and floating to either Riverton(sp) or Whiton(sp). Sorry I don't have the spelling correct I'm sure. Would like to do a two day and stop over night at one of the float camps but we will have to see how the weather is. May just end up doing a fish and float Sunday.