2023 Fish-Pic-O-Rama

[Underoos]

Got out with Underroos and a non-mag for a few days of wilderness floating. Hard logistics, dodgy weather, amazing camping, good people, and 35 miles of solitude made for some well needed adventure. Fishing was pretty good too!

Man, what a great time!
My video will be out in 2 weeks.
Non-mag video and podcast tbd.

[swimmy]

Throwing streamers while float camping on a swollen river...hell yeah!

[MarsB]

I got out for the first day since October yesterday, now that the backyard river has finally gotten wadeable again. Bugs were in the air, but nobody was rising for dries (likely due to all the cotton and pollen on the water) but I just couldn't bring myself to tie on a nymph rig. I just recently read an article about small water streamer fishing so I switched to a size 10 muddler minnow on about a foot of 4X. That was the ticket, what a blast throwing tiny streamers on a 3wt! Landed some small browns (nothing over 10") but got me on the board for 2023.

My dad meanwhile, who is definitely far cooler than me, caught this nice bowfin back in VA.