Very definitely. My biggest disappointment was that the local fish didn't cooperate any better.
a. >How True, >I just had a friend here from California and did just that. I got >satisfaction by watching him catch some trout. >Tony > >--- On Fri, 5/29/09, Peggy Brenner <[email protected]> wrote: > > >From: Peggy Brenner <[email protected]> >Subject: [VFB] Re: SHORT fishing report >To: [email protected] >Date: Friday, May 29, 2009, 11:34 PM > >Oh, a good day fishing with a friend is always worth keeping the >boat in place for the friend to get more fish. This is especially >important if the friend is having a 'hot ' day catching, that's >called support. Next time he will keep the boat steady while you fish > >Peggy > >On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Allan Fish <<>[email protected]> wrote: > > >Buck Hall and I went fishing yesterday at Chinook pits - a series of >strip mine pits in Western Indiana, about 20 miles from Illinois. >WOW. The water was up, but on Buck's very first cast with a Chili >Pepper, he caught the prettiest 9 - 10" bluegill you'd ever want to >see. We were in for a great day. NOT! > >To make a long story short, the ONLY fly that caught fish all day was >the Chili Pepper. The bad news was that it only caught 3 bluegills. >The other two were smaller. I fished very little because there was >enough wind that I was spending most of the time keeping the johnboat >where we wanted it. > >But it was a gorgeous day on the water with a good friend. And >that's what it's all about. > > >Allan > >p.s.: We had a good example of how much rain we've been having >around here. On the way home from Chinook, we stopped past Lieber >Lake (formerly Cataract Lake). We drove down to the boat ramp. BIG >lake - what's that out there? OH. The fishing platform. Looked >like it was 100 feet off-shore. I stopped at the gatehouse and asked >how high the water was. He said it is 36 feet above the beach! And >they can only drop the lake one foot in a day (it's a flood control >lake). Good grief. THIRTY SIX feet above normal pool stage. And >it's a big lake. Normally there's a 20 foot waterfall that feeds the >lake. Even that would be 16 feet underwater. Boggled my mind. >-- >Allan Fish >Greenwood, IN ><>[email protected] > > > > >-- >Peggy Brenner > > > > -- Allan Fish Greenwood, IN [email protected] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VFB Mail" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/vfb-mail?hl=en VFB Mail is sponsored by Line's End Inc at http://www.linesend.com -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
