08-22-10, 10:03 PM | #1 |
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Genesee River Gorge 21 Aug 2010
Below this...
...through this... ...after some of this... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfbGuF2VQSc We caught some of these... My friend Kevin, YakViper (my son), and I paddled and fished a 5 mile stretch of the Genesee River Gorge yesterday and it was everything we hoped it would be. These weren't the largest of the 35 smallmouth bass that we caught today, but they are the ones we managed to take photos of. I had possibly the largest smallmouth of my life hooked, but didn't get a good set and it shook it right as I got it to the boat - easily a 5-6lber. This was our very first trip on the river and we actually only fished the first half - nowhere even close to being thorough because we were under a time constraint and had to paddle through lots of great-looking water without wetting our lines. After getting our permit from the NY State Park office and getting our equipment offloaded and a vehicle driven to the takeout, we got a late start and were in the water by 10am and took out at around 3pm. Gitzit 3.5" tubes ruled the day drifting them along current seams and at the tails of riffles. These fish were incredibly aggressive and if you missed them the first hit, all you had to do was just pop it off the bottom again and they'd hit the tube twice - sometimes three times. AWESOME FUN and lots of leapers!!! The water was pretty low and we scraped the bottoms of our kayaks quite a bit through the rapids. I did end up dumping after getting sideways on a rock, and later snapped a paddle (had and extra) and had to walk through a 20ft section, but it was nothing to strenuous or catastrophic. We plan to hit the "Genny" again very soon - there's miles of great-looking smallmouth water upstream of this location all the way down to the PA border. I'm only wishing we would have tried this sooner.
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08-23-10, 09:27 AM | #2 |
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Absolutely beautiful place! Catching the fish looks like icing on the cake out there! Wow!
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08-23-10, 05:44 PM | #3 |
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that is just awesum man. lov ethe pics. thank you.
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That's awesome Blu--one of the best reports I've ever seen
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