a good weekend

[redneck joe]

we hit the river (creek) in the two canoes i picked up recently. Right across the creek are some falls. Pic isn't great - it was actually about 75 feet across with water coming over most all of it.

 

[redneck joe]

FYI - that was about 30 feet up.



this was about as far as we could make it. Didn't try to portage we heard that it didn't get better but we could have hiked up about a mile to some really huge falls. Been to them before, by land.

 

[redneck joe]

did a bit of fishing. I brought in a nice pumpkin seed (aka perch, bream, rock bass, goggle eye) and had a small one pounder or so largemouth on but he flipped off right at the side of the canoe.


I put on some scented fake bait on a bobber for AC and stuck her in areas when i knew she could get into small bluegill and other bream. She got about 10 or so. Like a kid, got to keep her on the fish or she gets bored.

Our host, a young lady named Kayla, got into a few largemouth and kentuckies after we left.



We went both saturday and sunday. I brought and cooked breakfast on sunday. They were two very good days.

She has set up a camp there with hammocks and tents and such.

 

[aspeck]

Looks beautiful ... and sounds like fun!

 

[redneck joe]

my new to us $350 canoe. 14 and a half long. Seats have backs and a too small cooler but since we were less than a mile in either direction took care of us for a couple hours.

 

[redneck joe]

a view from under the tarp. Dogs name is Luke. See the indent on the opposite shore? That is where the falls are.

 

[Old Ironmaker]

Very nice Joe. A Pumpkinseed up here in Ontario is Sunfish. A Perch and a Rock Bass are much different, same family.

 

[aspeck]

Very nice Joe. A Pumpkinseed up here in Ontario is Sunfish. A Perch and a Rock Bass are much different, same family.

Same here in Central PA

 

[sphelps]

Very nice RJ ! How cold was the water ?

 

[Old Ironmaker]

did a bit of fishing.

Our host, a young lady named Kayla, got into a few largemouth and kentuckies after we left.



We went both saturday and sunday. I brought and cooked breakfast on sunday. They were two very good days.

She has set up a camp there with hammocks and tents and such.

OK I give Joe, what's a kentuckie? Beside someone from Kentucky.

 

[redneck joe]

Water was perfect, Bout I'd say ten degrees cooler at the mouth of the waterfall.


a Kentucky is a smaller, chunky bass and also as a mouth size about half way between a smallmouth and a largemouth and imo they fight about in the middle of those two. Interestingly what we call bass actually are not in the bass family, but are a sunfish.

I grew up my first 11 years of life in OR and to me perch meant yellow perch. As I moved as a kid and later travelled for work I've learned that names are often regional and generic.


a couple months ago I went to stay with a friend for a few day s (being unemployed ain't all bad). He has lived in the flint river in Huntsville AL for about 20 years. I caught a fish he had never caught or heard of. Caught two actually. Redeye bass. Related to your Rock Bass

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redeye_bass