hahahahaaa! Great post Joe. I would pay money to have watched steps 300-350....I have left gear at home on a occasion as well... no fun at all...and lots of four letter words.
-Trent
On Wednesday, July 11, 2012 6:53:10 AM UTC-4, Joe Molloy wrote:
Just when you thought this thread was over....--
I got home yesterday a bit early and figured as long as i get out before my wife and kids get home I can get some fishing in. I grab my 5wt. Fill a fanny pack with a fly box, water bottle, camera. Put on my old running/wet wading shoes and hit the road counting. I have a fishing spot close to my house (in Aldie) on Little River. It's about 1.5 miles one way with a nice little hill to climb up and over the Bull Run Mountains just south of rt. 50. Nice and close and I get a run in.
I start running down the road counting steps...100, 200, 300 (I can't believe I haven't lost count yet!)..oh crap, I forgot my reel....now back 325 steps to my garage, get reel, now start over again once i also verify that I have shorts on.
Along the way i meet my neighbor, who is a hard core runner and told her i was going fishing. She said, "There's fish in there? I need to tell my husband!".....then off i go down the road, 500, 1000, 1200....now turn up a gravel road and up a few hundred feet over the remnants of the Bull Run Mountains...then down right to Little River just behind Aldie Elementary school.
Total count to the stream 2285. I set up my gear and try the first cast standing about 10 feet from the water since I didn't want to take any more steps. I plop(that's my cast) a muldler minnow in the water and it gets slammed by the hybrid piranha/bluegill that are all over...took all of 10 seconds...with that monkey off my back i was now free to wade where I wanted without counting since i had pretty much counted about as high as i could go.
I moved down stream and caught a few more bluegill...further down pulled in a nice little smallmouth...even further to a nice little pool that held a ton of fish. I hooked a fallfish there and hooked another big daddy fallfish that was hanging out but he broke me off...doh!
Anyway, the fishing was great. I caught fish with muddler minnow, small poper, crayfish, and wooly bugger...they ate everything. I didn't expect much with the water levels getting lower but i was pleasantly surprised. Little River is very shallow in parts but if you can wade a bit and find a little pool it's super fun.
-joe
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