Fun Family Weekend

[Gavin]

Went down to a shallow overcrowded river in SEMO Thursday-Sunday. Nice drive on Thursday plus lunch at the Arcadia Academy. On site with plenty of time to set camp, and let the kids swim while the adults enjoyed several gravel bar cocktails before dinner.     

Family float on Friday. My friends son, and my two daughters did the whole 5-6 mile float on their little kayaks w/o incident. Not bad for kids under 10! We were very proud! Fishing was better than expected too. Lots of little rat smallmouth on 1/16 & 1/8 oz Ned's and a few better to 15" on top. 

Gals elected to gravel bar on Saturday while the boys floated & fished. Tons out Saturday but it did not seem to matter. We caught little rats everywhere we could sneak a cast in between other floaters, some nice fish too. One Hog!

[slosh]

That's a beaut Clark! 

[Smalliebigs]

nice fish Gavin.....this last week was nuts for fishing.....when I fished it was epic.

That water looks very familiar

[Gavin]

That  Looks Familiar.

[Smalliebigs]

23 hours ago, Gavin said:

That  Looks Familiar.

I lost my phone in the river like a gaper the week we were just down there.ugghhh.

I wasn't able to get too many pics at all and just now received my new phone.

One day my daughter and I brutalized an area with the Ned....caught so many we quit counting the, as you say "little rat smallmouth" hahahaha with a few 16's nixed in.

Through out the week I did bring a few to hand I measured at 18 and a good number of 17 's for how little I fished. No beasts though.....the flood really changed every section of the river and was very interesting to say the least. The last pic is right before my phone went bye bye....clear water down in that watershed.....also sorry in advance JoeD for the hanging nipple shot and the gut shots hahahaha way too much fried chicken and pork chops that week

[Gavin]

Very nice Scott! Looks like a great time! My wife did a really cute Facebook video of our float on Friday but can't figure out how to link it.