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Merry Christmas and an Update…

First off, I would like like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope they are doing well. Secondly, I’d like to give an update on what is going on and why we have been absent.

My wife and I started the process to have a house built back in August. We are finally in our new house. We had to clear some of our land which entailed removing around 70 trees. That part we did ourselves and I can tell you…I’m getting too old to do stuff like that. We bought a shipping container and converted that into living quarters. We had our old house demolished and used the existing slab to build the new house on. As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, we live on a hilltop. It was cost prohibitive to level a new sight. The estimate for that came in at around $47,000 so we opted for Plan B. Fast forward to Christmas Eve and we now have the keys and are almost moved in.

I say all that to explain why we haven’t been posting. We haven’t had much time. In fact, we have not had a day off since August. We did make a trip to wade fish in Florida back in May. A belated post on that trip is incoming in 2026. But other than that, the fishing has been pretty slim. Factor in the tariffs, and we have not purchased much of anything from Japan. I did pick up a Daiwa Certate and I also picked up a Penn Authority reel in St. Petersburg Florida while we were there. Interesting reel and I will do a post on that in 2026 also.

On a lighter note, we welcomed our third Grandson into the world. It reminds us how fast time goes by and how old we are getting. But we have many things to be thankful for and are truly grateful. Hopefully things return to normal in 2026 and we get to go fishing a lot more. Stay tuned…and Thank You all!

Outing: 15 October 2024

Finally! The weather cooperated and we hit the river again. Saturday was 93F and promised to be the last hot day of summer. This morning we woke up to 41F and a chilly start, but it’s a welcome relief.

We have really missed fishing the river, but it’s been too hot and not enough rain to put it in prime shape. As I’ve stated several times, we don’t like to add undue stress to our beloved native smallmouth, so we leave them alone for the hottest parts of the summer. We also lost the Mother-in-Law at the end of September so we have had to deal with all that as well.

Anyway…we arrived at 0801 with 43F temperature and were geared up and on the river bank by 0815.

My first fish was a Crappie…not quite what I was expecting

It took us a bit to figure out where they were since they weren’t in their usual haunts.

Her first fish was a nice one

We found them hugging the bottom so it required a longer drop of the lure than normal. This is why we carry a selection of jigheads from 2.0 grams up to 4.5 grams.

My rig for the day…Tenryu Rayz 632L and a Shimano Twin Power C2000S

My wife brought two rods this time. One for jigheads and one for hard minnow lures. Certain stretches of the river require hard lures due to the fact that they just won’t bite a jighead and soft plastic. Don’t ask us why…we are just as baffled as everyone else.

Fall is just starting

Once the sun was up and had burned off the mist, the bass started cooperating. Plus, it was nice to ditch the coats.

Zip thoroughly enjoyed himself!

As usual, she caught the biggest fish of the trip. We had a great time and caught quite a few fish and hopefully can squeeze another river trip or two in before the weather turns cold. Even then, trout season will start soon so we have that to look forward too.

Catch you on the next one…and we will try not to make it so long between posts.