Grinning and Bearing it '21

[fishskibum]

supgraded my whip and took the juneteenth holiday day friday for a down n dirty madie voyage

been to hot and too windy and the berry and upper elevation slimer actions been good and cooler
Stoked to see not much less water and better vis
took longer to rig than find em and gits the hooked up from a carp sucked fly

targets o plenty

while neither cheap nor light its, a bote 12'4 double chambered inflatable sup, a bomber fishing platform
ive always placed my paddle horizontally at my feet but being able to place it up front out of the way, for the most part, is nice

not sure of the water temp oa temp was 70 at 8
carp eat more as it gits hot
headed upstream a few miles not that theres much current
a good mix of tailers beach ballers and crusiers
probably averaged a couple an hour out of the dozen or so good shots
managed to convince a nice mirror to eat

theyre minorities in that river system

diversity is cool
wind picked up carp dont like boat chop and im happy how well it tracked and moved in the wind as i dont run a center skeg much
hammered down and got it moving
heard some gear shift and by the time i turned to look the horizontal net became vertical and by the time i got spun and made it back i could only see bubbles
i could feel it with the sup paddle 6 or 7 feet down but couldnt git any leverage
thought about swimmin but it was a cheap thrift shop score
and i replaced it with something that fits in the "rac" system on the bote
had to hand line the rest on the way back donated a fly or 2 rushin it

went downstream to the second channel and  back up and off by 2 if it wasnt 100 it was within
not much traffic, plenty of bank trash at the usual pull outs sorry if you were heat marinating the rest of the chicken livers for another day i tossed em to the bear cats i never see