Eleven Point River Trip, Dedicated to Brandon Roach

 

    I took a 3 day, 2 night trip to the Eleven Point River on my new kayak last week.  I had Eleven Point River Canoe Co. take my car down river.  It was $35 for the service but the car was there and not broken into!  If you check out there map, I started at Greer Spring on Day One in the morning: http://www.11pointcanoe.com

    The trout fishing on that first stretch was a blue ribbon area and it had recently been stocked.  The fishing was excellent.  I only posted one trout that I caught but I was happy with it.  They ate any bead headed nymph that had rubbery legs, and they liked them big!  Some guy gave me a beaded Prince Nymph, with rubbery legs that was a huge fly and they liked it.  They also ate Stone Fly's with legs.  The night ended well with another local cigar and a little scotch I brought that was oh so awesome underneath a dark night full of stars!

     The second day was a little slower with the fishing.  I found them just one at a time in big holes behind rocks in deep holes.  I did have a little surprise as I came around a corner on the yak and got to close to a fallen tree wad.  I hit it on the right and fell in on the left.  I lost everything in the yak but most of it was in dry bags and boxes that I collected down river.  I had tied my ultra light to the boat.  The only thing that drifted away below the surface was my fly rod!  As I gathered my stuff up floating down river I luckily saw my fly rod sitting in the shallows!  So, I lost nothing- which was a theme for this trip.  A theme I like.  The second night I found a nice bank that had a sand area off in the woods a ways.  I really enjoyed setting my solo tent up on the sand instead of the rocks.  I slept really well that night.  I also brought a little, battery operated fan that offered some nice breeze as the temps were in the upper 90's.

The third day was a pretty wide stretch of the river.  I think I caught one trout but received a surprise at the end.  While fishing with my ultra light at the end of a strong white water section, I caught a small small mouth bass.  I changed to a little rapalla and then caught a large small mouth bass.  I caught a few more hear and there until the last 1/4 mile before the bridge.  There was a riffle section where I caught a bunch of great fighting smallies!  I fished it for another hour pulling somewhere between 6-10 of them. Caught about 3 that shook the hook and I lost them.  Overall, it was a great trip with very few people on the river.  I stayed on my own each night and saw 8-20 people on the river each day.  Most of the time I was on my own.  Great trip!  When you get back we will have to do it together!  Hope things are going well in India!