What a trip. My Dad and I drove down Thursday after work to get ready for a full couple of days fishing for small mouth on the John Day River. So, early Friday after meeting up with our party (8) pontoons. I fished from monument, Oregon to half way down to big bend campgrounds (about 7 miles). Wow, what a beautiful float. In the first 3 miles I laned over 100 smb. No lie. We started a little late so by about 3 I was ready to pack it in (started at 830), so I skipped a lot of water to fish. The wind kicked up and the float turned into a row. The last two miles I was rowing like a bad out of hell just to keep up with the wind. Start early to avoid the wind. We had planned to fish Friday and Saturday but due to unforseen medical reasons we hard to cut the trip short. 40 hours of no sleep, a midnight ride through the mountainside, an ER trip and a hospital say later I can honeslty say I am tired. All things cosidered a good fishing trip, all be it stressful. A word of advice, if you want to float this river, you will catch fish (and a lot of them) for chirst sake take lots of water; make sure people drink the water. All is well in the end, now I am tired and drinking some wiskey to un-wind. There are plent of fish to catch and I would links to fish this again, just a little shorter float. Dam good.

It was hot, and we threw everything in the book at them. Rapalas, grubs, half eaten grubs, grubs with not tail, jokers, everything.

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