River Day 07/26/2010

It's hard to believe, but it's been about a month since the last River Day. Everyone has been busy this summer with work and scheduling, so we haven't been able to get together on Monday nights.

This week the weather was perfect; clear skies, temperature just above 80 degrees. That's a bit of a cool down after the heat wave we've been going through.

Everyone was down this week except for Pat. We fished for a while and caught a few, but they weren't very active.

Ted supplied dinner this week; hot dogs with cooked onions and peppers. Yum yum. Thanks Ted!

Not much going on with the locals this week, just a nice quiet evening. We did see a Great Blue Heron. He perched on a rock at the edge of the river in front of the camp. The camera I had doesn't have much zoom, so I tried to get a little closer. He didn't care for that much and took off. I did get one photo
of him leaving. Sorry it's a little blurry, but hey, better than
nothing.

River Day 06/21/2010

River Day and the first day of summer fell on the same day this year. It's like a holiday with a bonus.

Only three of us made it out this week - Jay, Ted and Mark. Great weather for the night with temps in the upper 80's. Summer is definitely here. Check out the haze from the heat over the river below the bridges.

We ventured out to a different spot this week for a change of scenery. We ended up just upstream from where Rt 41 crosses the river into Fayette County, almost 2 miles up from our usual spot. Easy to get to and wide open for fishing (even though we didn't catch anything). A little harder getting back up to our vehicles, huh Ted?






All in all just a great night on the river with good
friends.

River Day 05/24/2010

With the exception of about a 5 minute rain shower, we had great weather this week at the river. The temperature was nice, probably mid-70's. In the picture you can just make out the rain coming in over the mountain.

After the heavy rains last week, the river level is finally starting to settle back down. It also wasn't nearly as muddy as it has been.

Jay and I did a little fishing this week. When I left we had caught about 15 between us, but Jay was still going strong so I'm sure his number was much higher.

Ted was there also this week and he spent a little time finding, then starting a new walking stick. He's making it for someone else who wanted a shorter stick with a rounded top.



Finally, it looks like the building has been completely finished. Ron finished the door over the last week (with a little help from the locals). He's finally able to lock his stuff up again, and I'm sure he's happy about that.

River Day 05/17/2010

Jay, Tim and I enjoyed River Day this week.

The water was high and muddy due to the heavy rains we've had the last two days, so we weren't sure how the fishing was going to be. All three of us tried when we first got there, but Jay was the only one catching anything; I think he ended up with 3 or 4.

We had some rain and thunder for a while so we hung out in and around the building. After the rain died down Jay had to leave and I decided to try a few more casts before leaving. I'm not sure what made the difference, but all of a sudden the fish were biting.

I caught about a dozen (while Tim dug up a few helgrammites (sp?)), including this nice one in the picture.


Despite the weather it was a great night at the river.

River Day 05/10/2010

Nice weather at the river this week with temps. in the upper 60's. Everyone was there but Pat, and everyone fished but Ted.

As you can see in the photo, Ron's building is nearly back together. If he can just get that rectangular door in the slightly off-kilter opening, then he's got it licked!

Every thing has really "greened up" over the last couple of weeks and it looks like summer is just around the corner. The weekly fires are already getting a little smaller, but I'm sure they're probably still the best one's on the river.






I'm not sure if the next picture shows it or not, but the eddy pool in front of the camp is the temporary home of what appears to be about a billion tadpoles. Ted says that's a good sign...some of us think that's a lot of bull...frogs. Maybe he's right. At any rate it's neat to see so many in one place.

Monday May 3rd...

Tonight Jay and Tim were the only ones able to make it down... spent some time talking trash about the guys that couldn't make! (figure they do it when we can't make it!) After getting that out of our system we helped Dawan(spelling??) load some wood for Ron. Dawan cut down a limb that was "blocking his view" of the river, so he cut it down.... nice little load of wood.

Did some fishing... Yes I did some fishing!! Got my license on-line yesterday and Jay brought some gear down for me to borrow. Got one on my first three casts!! First fish I've caught in about 35 years!! Sorry, no pictures...got lazy with the camera. Finished off with seven, and Jay caught about twelve more... so it was a good night. Need to start buying some fishing stuff now! Did somebody say "road trip to Cabela's!!"

Had a lot of fun fishing... looking forward to doing more next week!

No pictures to post!!

RIVER DAY 4/26/10

The weather turn a little nasty this week....rained on and off most of the evening, ran us onto the porch to seek shelter a couple of times. Ron came down for a while, we made a few more repairs to the shed...(Trying desperately to save this building...it's a valiant effort) Making some progress...as you can see by the pictures.

This was probably the most productive afternoon for fishing since I've been coming down to river. Jay caught about 12 or so, and Mark pulled in another 10 or 11 !!! I guess it's possible it was the same fish a couple of times... some kept coming up with less and less upper lips!

Everyone was able to make it tonight except for Pat...