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AndyS
07-20-2018, 04:39 PM
Floated from dam to dam. Put in at the service road behind Rt. 78 in the town of Clinton just down river from Clinton falls and took out just above Rockafellows dam, roughly 10 miles. Larger fish were hard to come by on this float for whatever reason. Dinks were a dime a dozen, enough to keep things interesting through the entire trip. Water was gin clear today.
No shortage of Bald Eagles and Great Blue Herons, the river overall was very clean. Hoped for better, next float main stem.
Got a few good early morning photos of a mist rainbow that appeared above the "lake" section of the river.
thmyorke1
07-20-2018, 05:01 PM
That bass pictured saved the trip, was getting worried we wouldnt find one not under the dink classification.

Even caught less dinks compared to that NB float.

Idk man I think the NB is the better fishery ;)

Thanks again for the float.
DanH
07-20-2018, 06:57 PM
Nice report! Always working on cleaning the river, my hat goes off to you. We need more people like that!
AndyS
07-20-2018, 08:08 PM
We did pretty good time with a put in around 7am and a take out time of 1:30pm. What I would give for that river to be just 6 inches deeper, all the scraping and dragging stinks !
hammer4reel
07-20-2018, 09:47 PM
We did pretty good time with a put in around 7am and a take out time of 1:30pm. What I would give for that river to be just 6 inches deeper, all the scraping and dragging stinks !

def too much skinny water the first few miles of that float, nice deep holes followed my inches for a long ways
JDTuna
07-20-2018, 10:03 PM
Great trip, guys! Looks like a blast.
FASTEDDIE29
07-21-2018, 12:16 AM
Great time of year to float! Especially now that the humidity has settled down! Fish are going to get spooked when a weird shadow or noise comes
Down river. Pristine water!!!:D
bigfishy
07-21-2018, 04:21 PM
That bass pictured saved the trip, was getting worried we wouldnt find one not under the dink classification.

Even caught less dinks compared to that NB float.

Idk man I think the NB is the better fishery ;)

Thanks again for the float.

I think ur rite!!! The north branch is where its at....Almost no reason to touch the south:D
kcritch
07-21-2018, 06:24 PM
I think ur rite!!! The north branch is where its at....Almost no reason to touch the south:D

Hahaha...That's funny.
NorthJerzyG
07-21-2018, 08:41 PM
Nice trip fellers!! Looks like some great scenery and some nice river bronze to top it off!! I have to make my way through that area sometime......... :D