River Day 04/30/2012

Debris in piles ready for burning.

Hope no one thought we were giving up on River Day, or the blog.  It's been a few weeks since the last post; no one was able to make it last week and the week before that we did make it down to the river, I was just too lazy to put anything on the blog.

This week Kevin, Ted, Tim, Jay and I were all able to make it down.  We had great weather with temps in the low 80's and just a few clouds.  There was a chance of rain, but we were fortunate and didn't get any at the river.

The end of last week and the weekend brought some heavy rains to the area, and the river was pretty high over the weekend.  It had receded to a normal level by the time Monday rolled around, leaving its typical line of debris across the yard.  Ted cleaned everything (or most everything) up and fed it all to the fire.

Everyone else got to the river before me and had found about 30 helgramites for bait.  When you have that much natural bait around you can be fairly confident that the fish will be biting, and we weren't disappointed.  I'm sure that everyone caught at least a half a dozen or so, several of the nice sized.

Lots of good fishing, and good conversation...until someone turned the lights out!  Thanks to ALL of my friends for helping me out.

P.S., I really couldn't tell you if we had the best fire on the river or not, but I know we had a fire!