We stopped at a rest area so Abbey could do her business on our way to Fall Camp at Nimrod Lake, AR. I just love this picture, looks like she's contemplating how the fishing is going to be. Or maybe she's just thinking about where to pee!
On this trip I chose to drive to Indiana and then ride with Billbob to Arkansas. Not real sure I'll do that again. It's not for the reasons you might think. There's nothing wrong with traveling with Billbob. Well, nothing that we don't already know about. It's because of my back. You see, Billbob has a standard cab in his truck, and I'm kinda a big guy. With my bad back I need to recline the seat to afford more lumbar support to the lower part of my back. And with my long legs I could not move the seat forward to get the back reclined far enough. So this was going to be a long drive for me. Luckily I figured out how to jam a half deflated, empty plastic Mt. Dew bottle behind my back where it hurt the most and that seemed to have worked.
I bet you all thought I was going to say that I'd never do this again because of Billbob. But that could not be further from the truth. He's actually a great guy to travel with. He does not get upset about anything. Abbey ate some grass at Billbobs house and two minutes into the trip she threw up all over the inside of his truck. It wasn't as bad as it sounds, but still, Bilbob just handed me his handkerchief and kept on driving, not saying a word. Heck, after having lived through hell in Viet Nam, ain't nothing going to bother him. Besides, I kinda think he likes Abbey.
Abbey sat quietly between us on the armrest and was a good girl for the rest of the trip.
After we arrived and set up camp we visited BillYE's campsite. We walked into BillyE and Arkansasbowhunter (I'll use ABH for short) arguing about who could catch more fish, BillyE using minnows, or ABH using jigs.
ABH bought minnows for BillyE the next morning before they went out fishing together to resolve the bet. He bought him 4 minnows. BillyE was going to use 4 rods, so that's all the minnows he needed, right?
We came up next to them, and asked who was wining in the bet but they kinda just acknowledged it was a tie. I don't know what it is, but you put two people together in a boat and they just seem to want to get along. I guess no-one wanted to end up in the water. lol
Abbey again riding in Billbobs boat laying quietly. Boy Billbob needs to clean up some of those pine needles in there!
We were underway with Nimrod who offered to take us out and show us where to catch'em. We were going to fish Nimrod Lake with Nimrod, using his Nimrod Special Jig. A 1/8 ounce tube jig. "Anything dark with chartreuse" he says usually works.
As the day went on, Billbob and I caught a few, but every now and then when things slowed down Nimrod would pick up a rod to show us how it was done. You see, he only wanted to tell us where to fish, he was going to leave the fishing up to us, but occasionally we coaxed him into showing us how he does it.
Supergooser and wife fishing and relaxing.
Billbob with a nice one.
It was a great get together. Big turnout.
The food was awesome and the people were awesome.
Demonstration Bamboo structure.
And wooden pallet structure was demonstrated too. It was kinda cool to see what we would be fishing on top of.
Jeff White arrived on his cycle and we went fishing without the help of Nimrod this time.
We didn't do as well without Nimrod on the boat but we had fun nonetheless.
It was interesting to note these water lines on the trees. Nimrod says the water level even has gotten up to the level of our camp site which you can just make out through the woods at the top of this picture. I guess this is a flood control lake and they sometimes will let it fill up to prevent downstream floods.
Well, everything was going along so well while at camp until I got news that my daughter was in the hospital. The serenity of this photo was broken up by a mad dash home that morning.
My daughters just fine now. But she ended up in the surgery room getting a large cyst removed. The darn thing had over three liters of fluid in it. I couldn't believe how big it was, but all's well that ends well.
Oh can't forget the Billbob "pics with chicks".
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