Latest ties & some testing w/ grandson
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Published on 04-28-2022 12:31 AM
In anticipation of some upcoming trips with my grandson, I decided to tie up a few jigs. I tied some old standards and a new “Grass Shrimp” pattern to test. Ashton or “Bubba” as we call him, had whet his appetite last summer on the trout streams. He and his older sister, Lexie had thoroughly enjoyed fighting the rainbows & brook trout on the Chattooga River. Bubba and both of his sisters have been introduced to the tying vise and trout flies, but now it was time for the fifth generation crappie fisherman to chase some spring slabs. With the fish being scattered in all depths, we decided our best bet was to longline troll. I gave Bubba his charge to run 4 rods out the back and I would man the 6 rods up front. Shortly after launching the boat, the graph lit up with bait and fish. Expectations were high, it was daybreak, and it appeared we were in the right place at the right time. After reeling in the first fish and seeing his smile, I realized I had made a new fishing partner and a memory that would last a lifetime. In my mind’s eye, I could see both of his late great-grandfathers and great-great grandfather smiling and bragging on “their boy”.
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