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Funny you said that, I've been lucky in the past with the black fly's. I was just looking on line for black fly head nets😃 Is their one that you recommend ?

Great trip!!! I love it up there. I'll be heading up there next week for a week of camping and kayak fishing.

Oh yeah, I have fun every time I'm out. Been kayak fishing for over 20 yrs and I'm still paddling. Just have 2D fish finder with a 5" screen, though I do have gps and mapping. I've been in an Eddyline 14'Caribbean for 11 years now, it's a nice paddling yak. I manage to put a few in the boat.

Jeez, if you guys are in dinosaurs, I'm in the primordial ooze

Was able to get in a trip to one of my local reservoirs, it was a grind for me. 7 hrs on the water and got 7 largemouths, 2 smallmouths, 2 perch and a crappie. Only picture I was going to take was one of the smallies that was a good one, lipped it and dropped it as it shook. After an hr drive back home due to traffic just looking forward to unpacking and having dinner. Come in and wife announces kitchen sink is backed up. Oh well, got to fix it now as the next day I'm babysitting my 3 yr old grandaughter. Go in the basement and open up the clean out, nothing coming out of it, so it's backed up somewhere between the sink and clean out. Empty out the cabinet beneath the sink, disassemble all the plumbing and start with the manual snake. It's happened before but I was able to use the clean out in the basement, it's messy and takes time but at least I"m standing upright. Now I'm laying on my back, head in the cabinet. I'm making about 3" progress turning the snake with a small vise grip attached to it, then take it off and do another 3" , repeat this about 100 times. Good thing I did this before my granddaughter was here, because she'd be telling her mom all the new words and phrases she just leaned from pop-pop. After at least a hr of this got everything back together and thankfully the drain was cleared and nothing was leaking. Then I got to take a shower using Dawn to get all the funk off of me. I told my wife I just saved us a 1,000 $, I should get a new fishing rod, she asked do you really need another, I just laughed.

Well,,,,being an ulta-light - light tackle fisherman it's doubtful that I'll ever own an A-rig. That and using what was the original that was developed in the 70's for saltwater fishing, then called the umbrella rig. They were fished using 300' of 40 lb monel stainless wire and a 100lb mono leader. These were fished with 4/0 reels and heavy trolling rods. You tied some colored thin wire around the wire to mark depth, I forget what the formula was to how many feet you'd have out to reach a certain depth, maybe 100' for every 10' of depth. Anyway I brought 2 outfits to use as at the time this was the hot way of striper fishing up here in the NY harbor. That lasted for 2 trips using them, just reeling them both in to reset your trolling pattern into the tide was a ton of work. I think the last straw was reeling one in after hooking up and it was 2 10lb bluefish, my arms were killing me. Here's a picture of one of them I still have from the 80's, as I tell my wife, I'm a collector not a hoarder 😛

It's posts like this that makes Bass Resource great

There's only one answer, drop shot, must be fished exclusively 😛

For as long as I can remember it never bothered me to be alone. I do a couple of solo camping trips a year, my wife is not thrilled about that. I have to call her in the morning that I woke up, and then after fishing that I made it back to camp. I do quite a bit of solo fishing day trips too. While I have no issue's with being alone, I do enjoy fishing with a good buddy as we can brag to each other and bust chops, especially around a campfire while having a couple of beers. Funny story; while I was still working I came back from a solo trip where it had rained most of the time, co-worker ask me what did I do while it was raining, I said it gave me a lot of time to work on my manifesto, I was pretty much left alone after that. 🙃

Hmmm, I might start calling my wife Gemini, 😛

It took me a little while to realize I wasn't just on vacation, people ask me if I miss working, I just laugh.

I actually thought that maybe Glenn had shaved off his mustache which caused a fracture in the space-time continuum

Congratulations on your retirement Brian👍 I can highly recommend it, nothing beats being able to get out during the week and avoiding the weekends, especially holiday weekends. Went camping on the Delaware river in NJ for a week of kayaking and fishing. Arrived on Sunday May 3rd set up camp, walked down from my campsite and fished the river for an hr, tried shad fishing but nothing, switched to bass and caught a smallmouth and a 20’ Walleye. Next day launched the yak, wind was brutal, blowing against the current. There were whitecaps on the river, was getting blown against the current at 2mph , could only fish close to shore as the middle was unfishable. Toughed it out and managed to land 13 Smallmouths. Next day my friend came up, he’s shore bound so we just fished down from the campsite. Once again the wind was brutal, I got 3 Smallmouth and another Walleye, when coming off the water hooked a nice shad and lost it at my feet, kept casting and got a couple of bumps then hooked another one and landed it. My friend caught his first Walleye and a chub. Next day was a rainout, no fishing. Following day I went to a different launch a couple of miles north, didn’t work out as I only got 1 Smallmouth for 5 hrs of fishing. Got back to the campsite and hit the shoreline for another 2 hrs and got nothing. Next day back to the campsite launch, cloudy with showers and of course wind though not quite as bad as the previous days. Landed 15 Smallmouths, lost a bunch on the jump. Got back to the launch and started loading up, now the sun came out and the wind died down.

Your back? Didn't know ya were gone 😛 Man, that felt like forever, must have clicked on the short cut 3 thousand times.