The fishing was awesome!!!

[Flysmallie]

It was the catching that sucked!

Made a last minute text last night to see if I could get that Indian bear on the river.

He didn't take long to respond and then immediately followed up with another. I left him hanging for about an hour.

We hit the river and tried really hard for awhile. Saw a lot of good fish. Lots of big largemouth especially. Very few takers. Here's a photo dump.

 

 

[fishinwrench]

Very cool! 

Heart clouds, and it looks like you got him out of his panties. 

Are y'all engaged now?   

[Chief Grey Bear]

As a matter of fact wrench, we are! And I couldn't be more excited! He proposed as I stood under that cloud on the gravel bar! It couldn't have been any more romantic!

I was just giddy and ecstatic the rest of the day! I didn't even care about fishing from that point on. My heart  soared with those clouds! 

[dan hufferd]

I know that part of the river well, I met my wife there on the 4th of July 29 yrs ago. It is not the place it used to be, but the river just keeps flowing. 

There was a time when the fishing was great, the white bass used to run well above horse creek, and there were many mink running the banks, I can't tell you how many cat fish we used to catch.

Be careful down there now it is a lawless area. The drug culture has pretty much take that part of the world over. 

Love the pictures, there are many interesting caves in the area too.

[Chief Grey Bear]

7 hours ago, Chief Grey Bear said:

As a matter of fact wrench, we are! And I couldn't be more excited! He proposed as I stood under that cloud on the gravel bar! It couldn't have been any more romantic!

I was just giddy and ecstatic the rest of the day! I didn't even care about fishing from that point on. My heart  soared with those clouds! 

Oh com'on guys! This was some of my best work! Funny as can be! It's Mr. Rogers! 

Crickets! Nothing but crickets!

[BilletHead]

      I can just imagine those two singing on that gravel bar in a MR. Rogers voice. "It's a beautiful day in the neighbor hood, a beautiful day in the neighborhood. Would you be mine? Could you be mine?"

  Thanks Chef now I can't get that out of my head .

BilletHead

[Chief Grey Bear]

Now it's stuck in my head too!

[Flysmallie]

On 10/2/2016 at 7:16 AM, dan hufferd said:

There was a time when the fishing was great, the white bass used to run well above horse creek, and there were many mink running the banks, I can't tell you how many cat fish we used to catch.

Be careful down there now it is a lawless area. The drug culture has pretty much take that part of the world over. 

Love the pictures, there are many interesting caves in the area too.

The fishing is still good in that stretch and the catfish have always been plentiful. That section is teeming with life. 

I think its a bit less lawless than it used to be. I've been at it for 20+ years and I can remember a time when there were less people but more of them were a problem. Since JRO started doing a kickass job it seems to be a lot less crazy. But since they do such a great job it's a busy place. Better crowd, just more of them.

I was telling Chief that there was a time that you couldn't fish that stretch without seeing some helicopters hovering or DEA agents running the river in a jet.