4-9 (A day with dad)

[MCrump]

The planets aligned to where I was off work, kids had a sitter while the wife worked, my dad was off work, and the weather cooperated phenomenally well. Put in at Taylor about 7 and headed up until the prop found gravel, luckily no damage. My 9.8 is a long shaft which I don't prefer for the river but it runs better than the short shaft 6 horse. (And runs a lot better than the ones tore apart in the garage, haha) We pulled over to the gravel bar and while I was tying on dad hooked into the first white of the day. He stayed 1-3 fish ahead of me all day, which was awesome. We caught about half of our limits in various places up through the s-curves. Then once we got pulled up the last big riffle into the long eddy, we went to the top of it and tied up to a log. Dad finished his limit there and I was about 10 minutes behind him a few yards down river. Had a couple smaller fish but nothing so small you couldn't keep. And a few slightly larger ones but we did not get into any real nice ones. Still an incredible amount of fun, as catching those things always is. I honeslty thought our take was mostly males but it was slightly over 50% females, just not big sows (at least my limit, dad could not recall). Saw several people out enjoying the weather and fishing, 2 guys in a canoe and 2 guys in kayaks that had started their day on a float from up river at 215 bridge. I was jealous of their walleye luck, only other species we touched was 1 little smallmouth. Kayaker's had come up and some were fly fishing the s-curves on our way back to Taylor. Saw 3 different bald eagles I believe also.

Don't know the water temp but clarity was a little clear for my liking over there, I'm sure the rain has drastically changed that now, however. 

I don't get over there near as much as i want to or used to be able to, so i cherished my day, especially having that success with dad.