Sundays Ride Down White River.

[taxidermist]

Late Saturday night the storms took out our electicity, so this lead to going to sleep early like they say when the chickens go to roost. Well we woke up before the rooster did and had nine hours of sleep. Power was still off, so what to do??? The river sounded good, boat was still hooked up from Weds. trip ooff we went into the darkness.

We decided to fish Wildcat to Cotter, we hit the water about 6:30am foggy overcast, slight sprinkle. Just below the first bend on the north side is a Sportsman Resort boat under the water. we caught fish off of it then moved to the middle dragging (shush) Power Bait, I was throwing a fire tiger rogue at the bank. We did pretty good I was suprised at the rainbows that jumped on the rogue, most when it hit the water on the first twitch.

We continued down to Cotter which was a pretty fast trip, a fellow caight a nice brown male looked to be 6 lbs or so in the shoal by Denton Ferry RV park.

My best rainbow came between the bridges against the south shore. Normally I can hook a brown or three on the north shore but not yesterday.

We decided to head back up river so we went on to to Stetsons the bank across from Stetson's was pretty hot for small bows on orange black striped panther martain.

Caught a few bos in the hole on the north shore just above the Whitehole Rapids.

I had another rod ready with the ratehr large Rapala husky Jerk bait dirfted over the north shoal and made the perfect cast and thump a ground shattering fish hit as I tried to work the fish and the boat into slower eddy water the fish wrapped around a bush and broke the line before I could work it loose.

We fished out way back down to the island below Sportsmans. I was again throwing the fire tiger, fishing had slowed as I lobbed the firetiger over the gravel bar bewteen the islands a really nice Cutthroat hit it, big fat one. Go him to the boat measured 18 1/2 with a 12 inch girth, I reached in the bag for the camera and it was not there!!! Wife just happend to take it out for a project for one of her classes and did not put it back. So the fish swam away to fight another day.

Yea I released a nice fish, out of the 41 fish we caught yesterday even the ones on power bait the only one gut hooks was a bow on the Panther martain.

We have a15hp Merc four stroke and it still has 1 1/2 gallons of gas about half of the 3 gallon tank left. Thats a run from Cotter to Stetson's plus fishing in between. Thats just incredible MPG consdiering the high water

Wd. we had fsihed from Ranchette running up to Redbid shaols then down to well bwlow the mouth of Buffalo for some smallies and back to Ranchette and when I filled the tank all I could sqeeze in was .8925 of a gallon. $3.51 cents of gas.

These four strokes are sure fuel effecient. Now if I had a smaller truck.

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