Night_Stalker
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- Feb 12, 2013
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Wanderings on the Letort this morning. Awake at 6am so on the stream by 8. Bright sun and 60 degrees. Should have gone Saturday morning during the rain.
I did not enjoy seeing a deceased 20"er to start the day (pic 1).
Pic 2 shows a brown that was working on its tan.
Pic 3 shows a big'en sitting on the bottom in an impossible spot to cast to…"soooo Letort".
Pic 4, an even bigger brown in a tougher spot…soooo smart.
Pic 5 shows the only cicada I have seen this year. Lots of hoppers and bumble bees. I tried to grab a hopper to feed one of the big ones, but the jungle is soooo thick it is more difficult than you would think using a steelhead sized net.
Muskrat, water snakes, sucker, and way too much sun.
I really only had one cooperative fish out of the 30 different of all sizes I saw or spooked. This is a normal day on the Letort.
I forgot my phone when I left the house in the morning…so as I explored parts of the stream that I had never been to before, I really should of had it. You walk the bank on this stream. You do not get into it. The Letort is known for its leg breaking holes on its banks, quicksand like bogs. To add to the fun, I got into a section that had dense plant life (thick underbrush and 5-6 foot tall weeds covered in bugs) then encountered a chain link fence with barbed wire on top. After being on the stream for 3.5 in the sun…my anemia started to flare up. So I was up stream without iPhone GPS…to tell me a way out, and without energy. So I started walking in the direction of civilization and ended up being circled back to the way I entered, not intensionally.
A good time. Pretty much had my butt kicked and handed to me. I would do it again…(but with a phone and a snack/water supply).
I did not enjoy seeing a deceased 20"er to start the day (pic 1).
Pic 2 shows a brown that was working on its tan.
Pic 3 shows a big'en sitting on the bottom in an impossible spot to cast to…"soooo Letort".
Pic 4, an even bigger brown in a tougher spot…soooo smart.
Pic 5 shows the only cicada I have seen this year. Lots of hoppers and bumble bees. I tried to grab a hopper to feed one of the big ones, but the jungle is soooo thick it is more difficult than you would think using a steelhead sized net.
Muskrat, water snakes, sucker, and way too much sun.
I really only had one cooperative fish out of the 30 different of all sizes I saw or spooked. This is a normal day on the Letort.
I forgot my phone when I left the house in the morning…so as I explored parts of the stream that I had never been to before, I really should of had it. You walk the bank on this stream. You do not get into it. The Letort is known for its leg breaking holes on its banks, quicksand like bogs. To add to the fun, I got into a section that had dense plant life (thick underbrush and 5-6 foot tall weeds covered in bugs) then encountered a chain link fence with barbed wire on top. After being on the stream for 3.5 in the sun…my anemia started to flare up. So I was up stream without iPhone GPS…to tell me a way out, and without energy. So I started walking in the direction of civilization and ended up being circled back to the way I entered, not intensionally.
A good time. Pretty much had my butt kicked and handed to me. I would do it again…(but with a phone and a snack/water supply).
