Well, we made it back from our trip to the CR/CL alive....barely! (I'll get to that in a minute). We stayed at Kendall for all three nights. Got a kick out of the park ranger guy telling us not to put our tent on the grass...more like mud and moss! Anyways, still a nice camping facility. Hit the CR the first day and the flow was great, however the fishing was not. We only caught 12 trout, all stocker size. We did, however, almost capsize my new boat! We were fishing up by the dam when the back current starting drawing us in towards where the water was coming out! Having been on the water all day, the batteries were a little low, so when I jumped over to start up the outboard, a couple cranks drained the battery down. I couldn't hear if she was turning or not cause of the loud water coming out.......we ended up being sucked in, over and over again with water pouring in the boat! Luckily, a guy in a boat heard our frantic yelling and was able to come over and pull us out. His name was Rocky...don't know if he visits fishin.com, but if he does.....I owe you big time brother! THANKS!!!!
Anyways, spent the other two morning fishing up Indian Creek towards 76 Falls. Tons of shad and the stripers were there. Had a hard time getting them to hit anything. They seemed so focused on those tiny shad that they wouldn't touch anything! We did end up hooking up with two stripers and lost both of them (the two guys I was with aren't very experienced anglers). Justinhall joined us on our last day back in Indian, and was a disatisfied as we had been. Justinhall gave us some good suggestions for that evening and I want to thank him for that. If it wasn't for him, we would have blanked on the stripers. Hit the area Justinhall told us to that evening and ended up landing two stripers (6lb, 11lb). So the trip wasn't a total bust! Thanks Justin.
Did do some flyfishin on the river and up some tributaries. Did have one of the largest trout on that I had seen in a long time! Must have been at least 27"...never could tell if she was a brown or bow because when I turned her, she was off on the run! I held on as long as I could, going under logs and branches, but she eventually got the best of me and broke me off. Still landed two bows in the slot (18", 19"). Just not as many spawners as years past.
Anyways, good time with the fellas. Wish fishing could have been better, but at least we were seeing fish feeding. That kept our hearts pumping and rods casting! Once I figure out how to add pics, I'll do it. Anybody tell me how? Thanks.
-Rich
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