7-4-11

7-4-2011 Mon

2:30 PM – 6:00 PM (fished approx. one hour)

Weather: S 10, clear, 88 ˚, 29.97 MB, steady
H2O: dirty, 78 ˚, 9.04’ falling, 80.7 kcfs

Location: Mississippi R. Pool 7

Caught: Nothing

Partners: Karen

Comments

Today was more of a boat ride than a fishing trip. Karen wanted to get out on the river so I took her for a ride in the goat boat. For tackle I was only armed with one bait caster with a swim jig tied on.
My plan was to make trip up one of the Black Rivers tributaries and circle around to Hammond Chute and do a little casting there. We made it upstream to the main part of the Black then headed downstream towards Hammond. About fifty yards on our trip down stream we ran into dumb and dumber. Here was a father and son who were taking their pontoon upstream on the black and somehow managed to get it wedged between two log jams. As soon as they saw us they were waving and motioning for us to help them. The way they were acting one would have thought they were there for days!
They practically begged me to help them and of course I did. I would have to say there is an unwritten rule on the river to always help someone out when they are having troubles. These two were not the sharpest tacks in the box and Karen and I were laughing the whole time I was helping them out. I pretty much blanked the two out as they tried to tell me their ideas on how to become un-stuck. I came to my own conclusions on how to get them out of their situation and it worked with very little assistance from them.
They came out of the ordeal unscathed but I broke my new sixty dollar pair of sunglasses and Karen fell back in the boat and hurt her tail bone. If only I would have had a video camera I am sure it would have been a hit on America’s Funniest Home Videos.
After our little ordeal we continued on our way. I fished for probably an hour and hit three different spots and never caught a fish or even had a hit.

Observations

None