Thunder Showers and High Winds forecast??!!! Ofcourse I went fishing

[Boyscout]

For Saturday, the weatherman said showers, thunderstorms, and high 20+mph wind. Well, those of us who work for a living go fishing when we can, not always when the conditions are right so me and 3 other fool fishing pals hit the river anyway. Luckily the rain, while heavy at times, didn't last all day and we only got caught in one very short thunder storm. So while the weather man was wrong about the rain, he hit the wind dead center. We got blown all over the place and I swear we paddled every yard at least 3 times. There was wind gusts so bad, at one point I could not paddle against it.

All of us caught some fish but we worked for everyone of them. The fly that worked best for me was a yellow and chartruese Deciever. I caught a LM, my biggest striper, and about 13 smallmouth bass. Best of all, we took a 16 year old kid on his first river trip in a kayak and he caught his first smallmouth bass and it was on a fly he tied.

Now for the pics...

Did I mention rain?

Token LM


Then some more rain


Then the sun came out and the wind howled and some fish started biting





Conman's first smallie ever


Another smallie I caught

[FishnDave]

Any small fish in that river??? Those are all REALLY NICE FISH!!!

[cycler68]

I'd say you did really great. It takes a hard core fisherman to go out and succeed in the conditions you described and you got it!

[Boyscout]

Thanks for the compliments!

Any small fish in that river???

LOL! Yes! Plenty of them and I caught a few but I only show pics of the big ones! Like in the old Scooby Doo episodes...What a Ham!

You got to understand, it is sometimes years between big fish trips! At least for me anyway.

[MSD53X]

You done well grasshopper. Nice pics !! Keep um coming