Fishing is Relaxing

[Stan Wright]

Isn't nice to see people out on the lake enjoying a little quality time together?

[Ahnkochee]

WOW the water level looks pretty decent in that picture.

[skunked]

How romantic!

[FishOnJohnson]

Nice pic of us Stan! We appreciate it! My wife, Mai, ended up out fishing me 2-0. I'll be posting her catches shortly. Looks like it was my turn to be the photographer

[blast from the past]

Geez, that looks like fun. That brings some memories for me. A friend and I had one like that. It was green, too! It was smaller - like nine feet. We paddled it all the way up the North Fork, until we could go no further. At that point we had to get out and hike up into the roaring stream bed that fed the North Fork. I kid you not, it was a pristine wild place. On both sides were tangled, dense, impassable jungle. We had to clamber over and through boulders and rocks on the sides and middle of the stream, as the water rushed through the gaps at surprising speed. Once we hiked way the heck all the way up until we felt we had gone back in time to another dimension. We actually caught smallmouth bass IN the stream up there! With small, brown marabou jigs (thick,heavy hair, 1/8th oz.) and a 4'6" ultra light rod and a Mitchell 308 spinning reel (Hah! - remembah thoze?!) We didn't get back home until eleven that night (my parents where furious - hey, no cell phone back then!). Paddling in the dark was worse than spooky. We also paddled south to under the North Shore side bridge. You know, there were a lot of bass there in those days - like, 20" bass!! And good lord, the tilapias were gargantuan - 18-22"!!! We would use the middle-sized round ping pong-ball sized red and white plastic floaters and those whopper tilapia would just rip the whole thing under the water like it was a feather!