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Watershed: New
Drainage size: 12 Sq. miles
Gradient: 25' per mile
Altitude: 2500'
Went back to a stream in VA I hadn't fished in a couple years. Figured I pay this place a visit before the area properties are developed.
Got down to the water shortly before 8, and fished until 11. Things didn't seem to be coming together too well. Lost a rig in the trees right out of the gate. 30 minutes in, I lost a 16"is fish right at the net. Not long after I hooked up with a large fish that I could not control and lost another tandem rig. I have no idea how large this fish was. The damn thing took off upstream and wrapped my line in some brush. Somehow I managed to loose rig #3 because my main knot wasn't mis tied. I cannot see anymore. Despite all the mishaps, it wasn't a shabby day.
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LoginWater on the lens
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LoginWhile tussling with a fish, my camera settings for AP were changed to fragment. This pissed me off a bit being it was quite the fighter, and a memorable fish
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LoginGotta love water on the lens. This one measured 18"
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LoginGetting in and out was no picnic. Tons of dead rhodo branches at the top. No leg breaky tho.
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LoginOn the way home, I stopped by a another stream to fish a short stretch I had not previously tried. Yes this is a state road. The ford was a little deeper than expected possibly due to the water being up a bit.
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LoginThere was no place to park on the shoulders so I simply parked in the stream
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LoginDidn't catch anything though.