Memorial Weekend Crane 2013 Pics

[Brian K. Shaffer]

Fished Crane today for about 4 hours. Caught 3 at the upper W/R access.

The picture takin' got me kinda sidetracked... check out that alligator snapping turtle!

(one trout and too many suckers!)

(this snapping turtle had a shell the size of a dinner plate)

(here's a '68 Shelby Cobra that was parked outside a cafe in Reeds Spring - super nice!)

[Brian K. Shaffer]

(more pics from the following day, 5/26/13)

(fox den)

(closed up Table Rock Bass Pro in Reeds Spring, been closed since I moved here in '93)

[jfrith]

very nice pictures.... Is that a catfish in one of them?

[Brian K. Shaffer]

Yep, someone had cleaned 4 pretty big cats and dumped the carcasses at the upper W/R access.

Sunday I stepped into a real deep hole 20 minutes into the walk to get to the water, at the bank edge really.

I was in regular walking stride and then ~thud~ mid thigh deep with my right leg in a hole/crevasse.

Scared myself a little.. if I would have twisted an ankle or broke it - I would still be there hollering.

(cell phones do not work at Crane... talked to a cop and he said only Verizon has coverage there)

Crane is real pretty and all... but every 5 years or so I have to teach myself why it is best to go in winter.

The river is so overgrown with brush.. hard to get around, hard to cast around, and I hate snakes.

[ruthead]

Looks like a cool trip.Sounds like if you waited any later in the spring it'd be super tough to get around. Enjoyed the pics!!

[Nighthawk]

A fishing pal and I ran into some grad students from MSU who have a license to collect snakes from Crane and they said the water mocassin is the most common snake out there. They had one they had caught that day in a sack. I always thought reports of them were a myth, but apparently not. The creek is very high and fast.

[Brian K. Shaffer]

I will not go back until Winter.