Friday morning was a special day on the Creek.

One in a million; non-stop action.






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The Chesapeake Bay, like Verdigre Creek, has challenges that it is facing.

A nice early morning striper, fishing structure...


Only a handful of commercial boats still prowl Virginia's side of the Chesapeake in search of menhaden. They are large boats, though, and are supported by a fleet of aircraft who act as spotters, directing the boats to the pods of baitfish. ...

It was a good day to be on the creek. The temperatures were moderate, 80 (o) F., with moderate humidity. Skies were overcast.

The browns were cooperating today. All taken on dries.

A nice brown from the 'lith pool.

Rather than continuing up US 275 and turning north on 519th Avenue, I turned north on NE 14 and followed it to US 20. I turned north on the county road one mile east of the rearing station. Breaking habits has its consequences. I had triggered an inverse reality. On the creek, I was catching browns where I normally found rainbows. I was catching rainbows where I normally found browns.

My inattention to "the way that things have always been done" may have been a cause....

The ‘Hooch begins just a few hundred yards from the Appalachian Trail in Union County, Georgia. Ultimately, it joins the Flint River at Lake Seminole on the boarder between Georgia and Florida. From there, the Chattahoochee becomes the Apalachicola River. Eventually, it flows into the Gulf of Mexico at Apalachicola Bay. The Apalachicola-Chattahoochee-Flint River Basin drains approximately 19,800 sq miles in the Blue Ridge, Piedmont, and Coastal Plain Provinces.

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