Labor Day Report

[MarkG52]

Been a while since I've made a Beaver report, honestly haven't been out much or done very well when we did go. Heat, Covid (yep, I got it, had been vaccinated so very mild case), and football all been getting in the way. On the water at Hickory by 6:00am. Put on a sweatshirt with the air temp 58 and a nice damp fog on the water. Had fair top water action early. I was throwing a popper and my buddy a walking bait. They seemed to like the popper a little better. Stuck a nice 3#'er about 7:00. That was the big fish of the day. Mostly LM, did catch a fat K on a stupid tube late morning. Water temp was pretty much 84. Saw some a little lower, and some a tad higher. We had made our way up into War Eagle and a sea plane made a couple of passes overhead. We pop out of the little pocket we were fishing and there it is cruising on the water. I hammered down to catch up to take some pictures. It cruised for a little bit then started turning around to get headed back into the wind, it's fixin to take back off! It was super cool to watch it take off. I ran along beside ( a relative term, I gave a real wide berth), my buddy got a good video. Not that much wake but plenty of spray. I looked up the tail # and it is a 1951 Grumman, I think Albatross. Registered out of Minnesota. Anyway, back to Hickory ramp by 12:30 or so and it was a zoo. Bobbed around for about 45 before my buddy got the trailer in the water. 

[Quillback]

Thanks for the report, it has been a while since I have been over to Beaver.  Neat aircraft, you'd think it would be tough for them to get enough room to land on take off as busy at the lake must have been.  

[curtisce]

2 hours ago, Quillback said:

Thanks for the report, it has been a while since I have been over to Beaver.  Neat aircraft, you'd think it would be tough for them to get enough room to land on take off as busy at the lake must have been.  

There was a B-24 bomber up in Springfield all weekend. Must have been giving rides. I could hear that plane coming well before I would see it.Those old motor have a loud deep roar to them so I suspect boaters would get out of their way quick. 

[Quillback]

2 hours ago, curtisce said:

There was a B-24 bomber up in Springfield all weekend. Must have been giving rides. I could hear that plane coming well before I would see it.Those old motor have a loud deep roar to them so I suspect boaters would get out of their way quick. 

More B-24's were manufactured than B-17's.