*Throwback Thursday* Maybe you've seen this term today, when I saw it, I was reminded of another pit fishing trip.This trip was at a series of river "scour holes" along the Missouri River at a certain conservation area.
No motorized vehicles were allowed there, hiking trails/ bike paths allowed access to the fishing area that we wanted to fish. My brother David & I loaded up backpacks,our mountain bikes,lunches and fishing gear for the 5 mile bike ride to reach this fishing area.
About a 30 mile drive from his place to the parking lot, gave us time to visit and prepare ourselves for the long bumpy bike ride back to an awesome fishing hole. Of course we traveled lite with backpacks well stocked and water easily reached, fishing poles broken down securely fixed to our backpacks.
We arrive at the water around 8:30 in the morning, unload our gear and begin fishing.
The crappie are biting hard & fast so filling our stringers presents no problem.There are 5 or 6 super spots to fish here and every time we fish these waters massive crappie are strung up.
The holes ( 2 of them ) are connected by a trench that's only 3 ft wide by 2-3 ft deep, by the time we reach the second hole our catch is pretty heavy.
At this hole there is a beaver dam on the far side, that's where we head . I'm standing beside the beaver dam, catching crappie every 4 or 5 casts while David hooks something HUGE.
His lite crappie tackle won't allow him to " horse " this fish so he plays it for 15 minutes or so, he's hooked a spoonbill, from what I can see it's 50 lbs or so. Finally his hook pulls loose, wore the man out, it did, meanwhile I've landed a few more nice crappie.
We start back with full stringers, as we struggle along I get the idea of using a long " beaver pole " to drape our heavy stringers over, which we prop on our shoulders to carry our huge catch.
When we get to where we're going to fillet our fish we count them,
26-crappie, from 12" to 16"
1 ea.13 lb flathead catfish
5 ea. lg mouth bass 3-5lbs
1 ea.3lb white bass
1 walleye at 17".
We fillet our fish, bag them in gallon ziplock bags, repack our backpacks and bike back to the truck.
WOW what a fishing trip, we're whupped by the time we reach the truck, but both of us have big smiles on our faces regardless.
Now if you have been following along, I had said that "scour holes" were awesome fishing.
Now you know why, not many fish were thrown back on that Throwback Thursday.
Thanks for following & Happy Fishing
Jon
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