7-19-08 Riverbend Solo Canoe

Holy crap, I paddled 3 miles upstream and ate lunch on an island that was carp city. I just ate my sandwich, drank coke and looked at these huge fish, the biggest much larger in circumference than my thigh and over 3 feet long.
I floated back, catching well over 30 smallies, a few huge bluegill, and some catfish on gitzits, I even had two 15-20 lb cats chase two different 13 inch smallies I had caught. The biggest 3 fish went 12-13 inches and fat. Lots of 10-12. I saw several 3-5 lbers on the float. The huge 8-20 lb blue cats were everywhwere, I saw at least fifty all day, no shit. Awesome Saturday.
So which one of my buddies is going to stop being a pussy and come up here to fish? I have several floats, including one with the the start and end points both within 11 miles of our place...

7-13-08 Riverbend Solo Canoe

I love having a canoe. I have cleaned it all up , removed peeling decals, applied plastic conditioner to the hull, and repaired popped rivets in the seat mounts and keel support. I think I might even put some real classy redneck stickers of a Smallie, oh yeah. they will go well with my mustache project I plan to get going in august while on some fishing trips. I took my first solo river paddle, going 1.5 miles upstream and floating back. I caught 25+ fish including a 13.5 and 17 incher (not to mention some huge bluegills).

Bay Fishing with Greg and Blair

the weather was beautiful. We looked for flounder and found few. We searched for specks and found few. Blair and I bottom fished coming up with a nice blue, and mess of croaker and spot. The grass beds looked great, just couldn't get the right tide. Crabfeast on my birthday (notice my beverage of choice). Then I started working insanely, only having 2 days and a morning in June of fishing.