How Far Are You Willing To Drive To Fish?

[Greasy B]

Great responses all, thanks. Everything from “I have paradise right down the road, why should I drive half way across the country” to “Paradise is half way across the country and I’m going to do what I have to do to get there”. One thing’s for sure, youth and zeal make it a lot easier to burn up the road.

As it turns out this trip was well worth it. We did spend about nine hours on the road and about twelve hours on the water but if you include a great evening camping on a gravel bar enjoying cold beverages and juicy rib eyes, eight glorious hours of deep sleep followed by a leisurely morning drinking coffee and yet another great meal we probably had thirty hours of quality time, I’d do it again and again. Oh yea I kind of forgot about the $80.00 plus spent on gas, I can’t do again and again.

[RogerH]

Looking back at my summer of discovery for smallmouth pursuits, this summer/fall I drove to Crooked Creek four times where I put in three two-day trips and one three-day play. Hit Big Creek at Carver and portions of the Buffalo for two days. Got a day on the North Fork of the Sylamore. One day on the Strawberry. A day on Lower Richland Creek with an over-nighter on the Buffalo River from Woolum down to Baker's Ford done in two days.

Tagged a couple of casts on drives at the Big Creek that flows into the lower Buffalo as well as the Kings River on a trip to Rogers.

I live near Heber Springs, Ar so the majority of these drives are within three hours. Guess I'm just lucky!

[dpenrod]

i regularly do day trips to the white river (as long as the generation schedule cooperates). normally go to cotter, ar., which is a four and a half hour drive one way for me. hit the road by 3am. in the water by 8am. off the water by 4pm. back on the road by 430pm. usually make a couple of stops on the way back to keep myself awake. pull into the home drive around 930pm. long day, but worth it.