real short notice lol

a real sudden decison was made today and the chance to get out of the house to camp and fish for 4 days was thrust upon me. but i have no say in the campsite choice. it will be on the rough river near the hwy 54 bridge where the KYDFW stocks the trout. it's about 15 or 20 miles below the dam of rough river lake. we will be doing a real primitive camp lol taking our own fresh water, no power and using the campershell on my ole' truck. i plan on sweating and swimming alot, but i will have my rods and all my crappie and bassin' stuff along with a couple of tubs of chicken liver. the tuff park is i can't take my little boat so the bank will be it. i was just wondering, if anyone sees this before 9 a.m. thrusday, if anyone has fished around there and has any advice :)

how'd it go ? catch anything ? .... what's the word ? ........... cp :cool:

Hi guys I made it home alive lol. It’s been a great trip. The drive wasn’t bad and the place we went was off the beaten path, well from the tourist anyway. The locals bring the kids down for a quick swim or make a few cast at the many fish that are found there. The Rough River, to me looked more like a creek than a river, flowed across the flat rocks just a few inches deep where the kids rush in to the swift water with no regard to it’s coolness. Channeling down to a narrow strip as it passes under the bridge. Then it opens up into a wide turn to the right where it makes a big shaded pool of two slow circling eddies next to the fast moving water. The bridge is one of the trout stocking places in the state and they dump brown and rainbow there a few times each summer. I got the truck down a hidden and very overgrown path all the way down to the water’s edge (with mike sitting next to me swearing that “it really is a road” and sure, “we’ll get it back out”) then backed it up under the bridge in a good shaded place the water was low and we were parked on a spot the water ran deep in the spring. Just a few feet from the tail gate was the perfect place to sit back in the shade and just watch the water move for awhile. I knew when I sat down and looked at the way it all flowed through that I was in a for a different kinda fishing than I was use to in my clam quite strip mines, but I felt up for the challenge. After unloading the truck I was soaked in sweat, it had to be 98 degrees or more so I waded in the cold water and got nice and wet. I was surprised how cool the water was but it was only 8 or so miles from the dam and I was told by a nice ole fella at the general store, because the dam draws water from the bottom of the lake was why. Then he told me in all his years he had never seen the river so low and the key to catching anything was to hike alone the river and cast into the deep pockets wherever I find them. Well to make a long story short, we swam, fished, ate and slept the whole time we were there. I was hoping to hook into some of those striper bass I heard where in there and tried to find those big catfish everyone was saying hung out there. But we had some real fun with the two gars and the two big bowfins we managed to catch. While we were there I saw a guy catch a nice striper and use a bait net to catch a carp. We cut it up and used it for bait. All in all I had a real good time, but I like sittin’ in my calm strip mine tossin’ bass stuff better lol

this sign should be illegal

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river 1

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river 2

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1st gar

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1st bowfin

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2nd bowfin (the bigger one)

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falls of rough1

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falls of rough2

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