Sunday, March 04, 2007

East Fork Float

The White Bass are running! The White Bass are running!

Like the call of a Siren, the thought of hoards of spawning white bass seeking the clean oxygenated waters of the creeks feeding local lakes draws the fisherman like ducks to a junebug...

It drives thim out of bed early on a Saturday morning in early March to get to the water early.

Paul & I were determined to get up and on the water by daylight so that meant my alarm would be set for 3:30AM.

It was pretty cool but promised to be a beautiful day.

The following pictures tell the tale - it was fun even if i did lose a stringer of fish. We did catch enough for a tasty meal and had a great 5-mile float down the East Fork.

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Foggy Launch

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Paul gets into the fish early

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Cypress

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Paul's creation catches fish!

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This crappie fell for a chartreuse Micro Grub

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The Happy Crappie

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The Lost Stringer
I don't want to talk about it......

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Largemouth Bass


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Appaloosa Catfish

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Fishy Tankwell


With God's blessings we had a great day of fishing.

2 comments:

Bawana said...

Looking good from where I'm sitting, It won't be long until spring arrives up here, right? I must say I'm quite taken with the nice clear flowing water, just right for making Beer.

Paul Batchelder said...

That was a great trip. It is a nice float and we will have to do it again soon...white bass or no white bass!