Project Healing Waters Trip On Saturday

[Micheal Kyle]

This past Saturday I was asked to help out with the PHW event on Taneycomo and what a great event it was until the rain hit. I had the chance to guide 2 Veterans Charles an Army Veteran and Loren a Marines veteran . Loren and Charles had never been down on Taneycomo let alone even Trout fished with a fly rod. We got started promptly at 7:30am up at the MDC boat ramp. I rowed the boat up to outlet three with one unit on and floated down to Achasea Club Road. After a few minutes of casting instruction it was on, they started to pic up a few fish on an egg. Although the bite was slow up top as we drifted down the bite got better we broke for lunch around 11:30 down by Point Royale for about 30 min. After that the sky's turned a little darker and we could hear some thunder in the back ground. We started our drift and the egg bite was hot they were catching a fish just about every drift with some some coming un buckled before they got it in. I had the egg set at a depth of about 6 feet with the one unit running. The fishing was hot before mother nature un-leashed the greatest rain storm I have had the pleasure to row in quite a few years. We had to cut our trip short because of the rain I bet we got an inch of rain in the first 30 min of the storm.

I hope that all of the PHW participants had a great time . I can not wait till the next event.

Thank you to all The Veterans that make it possible to do what we are able to do in this great country of ours.

Here are a few pics of Loren and Charles .

Charles

Loren

Loren and Charles at Lunch

I thank PHW for the pleasure of being able to take these gentlemen out on the water for the day.

Michael

[laker67]

Some how, thank you, sounds like such a meager compensation for all that has been endured. My hat goes off to all the veterans, their families, the sponsors and organizers of this great event, the volunteers, and all the fishermen, like Micheal, helping to make this happen.