River Day 06/20/2011

River Day fell on West Virginia Day this week, but only two of us were able to make it down to celebrate - Tim and I (Mark).

Once again we took the holiday on the road and traveled upriver from the usual spot. This week we were along Royal Road just off Rt 41, in sight of the bridges over the river. We had a little rain early on, but not enough to bother us. Temps were in the mid 70's with an overcast sky.

We fished the entire time we were there, and despite having 3 fishing poles out, neither of us caught a thing; we didn't even have a bite. We mostly used night-crawlers on the bottom, but tried other stuff as well - maybe the fish have caught on to Monday evenings?

The frustration of not catching anything led up to the random quote of the week: "If you were a worm...you could swim from one bank of this river to the other and not get hit."

Maybe you had to be there, but that statement struck me as funny and I told Tim I was going to quote him on the blog. It's the simple observations that make the most sense.

No fire this week so we can't make the usual claim, but we did have a great evening on the river.

River Day 06/13/2011

Jay, Tim and I (Mark) made it down to the river this week, at the same spot we were at last week - just above Mill Creek. We thought the fishing at that spot was bad last week, but it was much worse this time around - we all came up empty handed (rodded?).

The temperature was 10-15 degrees cooler this week than last also, maybe around 70 degrees or so, but other than that it was a good evening with clear skies.

There was a little "traffic" on the beach this week; a family was camped about a hundred yards below us, and a couple of older gentlemen wandered through doing a little fishing. We even had some river traffic - kayaks, canoes, rafts.

We did build a small fire this week, and from every direction we could see, it was the best on the river.

I forgot to take a camera this week, so the photos posted here were taken with a cell phone; sorry if the quality isn't so hot.

River Day 06/06/2011

We had absolutely beautiful weather for this week's River Day and Jay, Tim, and I (Mark) took full advantage of it. We made a short road trip this week and celebrated River Day a few miles up river from our normal spot, near Mill Creek.

The fishing wasn't very good at this spot, but that didn't stop us from trying. Jay actually caught a couple and Tim caught one; I came up empty handed. Good thing they don't call it "catching".

We had a nice fire going but it was so hot we didn't spend much time near it. You just have to have one while you're at the river; it may even be in the by-laws somewhere.

Of course we had the normal conversations regarding the political climate in the country, followed by matters closer to home. After that we even had some early planning (talk anyway) about our annual fall camping trip. That isn't until October, but you have to be prepared.

As usual, this was a great evening on the river at probably my favorite spot on the river. It's hard to imagine how folks who don't celebrate River Day make it through their week!