jdmidwest Posted May 27, 2007 Posted May 27, 2007 Day one, Memorial Day Weekend 07, on strike with the gas bastards, I choose a stream locally. Hit the water at 11:30 am with the kayaks and was into fish off the bat. Stream in good shape and floated well. 2 15" smallies in the first 1/4 mile. We floated the stream till the rain run us off at 4:00. We caught alot of bass and turned a few more that should have come in. The best day on that stretch of river in a long time. I had several over 18" and hooked a gar that was in the 40" range. The gar run up the river in the spring to spawn and sometimes get trapped and stay all summer. They have been a blast on the fly rod. Today, I used 1 lure and was spin fishing from the boats. Too much cover and obstacles to fly fish. The lure of the day was a J7 rapala floater, gold and black. I was amazed how agressive the bass were for this time of year on a top water lure. Looks like a great summer. Oh yeah, we floated for 4 hours without seeing another soul except for a farmer riding his fence. We saw deer, turkey, wood ducks and a whole lot more. And it was a 24 mile round trip from the house so I used about 1 gal of gas! Here are a few pics. Bass Yakker 1 "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
Danoinark Posted May 27, 2007 Posted May 27, 2007 Now that's a trip...thanks for an excellent report jd...Dano Glass Has Class "from the laid back lane in the Arkansas Ozarks"
Mikey Posted May 27, 2007 Posted May 27, 2007 ... jealous much .... Each time I buy a new fly............ My wife gives me the same look........ I give her when she buys another purse... ..............................
Terry Beeson Posted May 27, 2007 Posted May 27, 2007 Good report... nice pics... wish I was there... TIGHT LINES, YA'LL "There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process." - Paul O’Neil
Wayne SW/MO Posted May 27, 2007 Posted May 27, 2007 Hard to beat sitting in a yak, or solo canoe, on a Missouri Smallie stream. Today's release is tomorrows gift to another fisherman.
jdmidwest Posted May 27, 2007 Author Posted May 27, 2007 Day two, took the new jon boat out to a local lake, drowned a tube of crickets with the other half. I now have to clean half of a 5 gal bucket of big bluegills. No pics, nothing special. BTW, I only used the motor to run up the lake and trolled back. Drove a little further and maybe used a gal and half of gas. Gonna splurge tomorrow and float Castor River for smallies in the Yaks. I may have to burn 2 gals of gas!! "Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously." — Hunter S. Thompson
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