Boiling Spring To Slabtown

[bikehikefish]

Put in two kayaks at Boiling Spring on Saturday about 10:00. The river looked to be at normal level and in good shape but fishing was slow all day with nothing more that some small smallies and goggle eye on a Rapala. The highlight of the day was the guy in a jon boat with his family telling about his property at Union that he would be willing to sell me for $10000. Didn't have my check book with me.

While stopped for lunch the skies opened up and we had a good rain for about an hour.

Only saw a few other fisherman in the afternoon and everyone agreed the fishing was slow. Made it a few miles past Mason bridge and set up camp for the night.

I flunked the "remember to bring everything" part of the weekend. Somehow forgot the plastic connector pieces for the Eureka tent and we had to fabricate some from sticks and parachute cord. My friend Andy is pretty good at it and the tent didn't fall during the night. Cooking the steaks was interesting since I left the grill in the car. Some green sticks over the fire made a decent makeshift grill and we had only one steak fall into the fire.

Sunday morning we paddled the rest of the way to Slabtown, catching some small fish and one decent goggle eye, one of the biggest I have seen for a while.

Odd people were again the highlight of the day. Coming down the river we could hear loud arguing, with a female yelling "f---- you..." and an man yelling "well how many times have you called the sheriff on me?" When we got up to where they were camped, they were nice as can be, asking us if we had any cigarettes and telling us how stressful packing up camp is. I felt sorry for the kids.

BBQ and a River Buck Ale at Missouri Hick in Cuba on the way home topped off a good weekend.

[SmallyWally]

Thanks for sharing with us BHF. Little harder to write up a nice post, when things don't go your way, but getting out is what it is all about. Fishing has been poor. Funny, we stopped at Missouri Hick on the way home too, and had a nice BBQ meal.