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Old 05-15-2016, 08:19 PM
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My dad and I took our annual spring float down the Big D this weekend. We pulled into Hancock about 4:00 on Friday, and decided to check out the 191 bridge in town to see what was going on. Water was up, and slightly murky; perfect! EXCEPT... there was tons of green slime tumbling down the river. Every other cast we had to pick it off our lures. In between the slime, we both managed a small brown, and I missed a nice 15" brown that cartwheeled about 5-6 times before he spit the hook. Saw a couple of fly guys, and one drift boat came down, surprisingly quiet for a Friday evening.

Saturday morning we met up with Mike at Long Eddy, then drove up to Buckingham to launch the boat. My dad was on the rainbows almost immediately, catching half a dozen before I even landed my first fish of the day. After lunch things heated up for me, including a 10-minute stretch where I landed two browns and a rainbow, all over 16". At the end of the day we landed about a dozen trout, one shad (my dad's first), two smallies, and two walleye. Big fish of the day was a 20" rainbow that my dad plucked right out from behind another drift boat that was chilling out along the bank. One rainbow I caught was bright silver, could have sworn it was a steelie! Silver spinners did most of the damage.

Sunday morning, still a little sore from all the casting/catching from Saturday, we stopped by the fireman's field in town. We didn't fish too long since it was very cold and windy, but I was able to score a short walleye to close out the weekend. After a stop for breakfast in Callicoon, we were back in the Dirty Jerz.
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Old 05-15-2016, 09:09 PM
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hey great vid, any time on the water with your dad is time well spent.congrats to your dad on his first shad looks like you guys had a good time.god bless and tight lines guys
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Old 05-15-2016, 09:09 PM
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Nice mixed bag and topping it off with a shad at the end is the way to do it.
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Old 05-16-2016, 09:25 AM
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Awesome action man!
I'm looking to go down the upper delaware soon too in hopes of some trout or my fist walleye! Will study your video and hopefully I'll get em!
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Old 05-16-2016, 01:50 PM
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Hitting the upper Delaware river this Saturday on my friends boat. Last time we went there we caught tons of smallies, and a few nice rainbows & browns trout. Hoping to make lightning strike twice again!!
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Old 05-16-2016, 02:36 PM
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The master videographer getting it done! Great trip buddy! Beautiful upper D mixed bag again! Great looking fish!
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Old 05-16-2016, 03:22 PM
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Beats anything on TV these days, top notch !!
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Old 05-16-2016, 07:35 PM
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Cool vid!! Bunch of nice fish and the surroundings make it even better. Awesome!!
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Old 05-16-2016, 10:35 PM
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Awesome trip there buddy. Nicely done all the way around...and a great video too.
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Old 05-17-2016, 09:23 AM
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Another good one. Thanks for taking us along!
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