Coenen
Senior Member
Got "The Call" from 1eyefishing yesterday afternoon about hitting the Hooch this morning. I'd been under the weather all week and was ready to get out of the house today. While we were making plans, he asked me to make "The Call" to StripeRRHunteRR. The call was answered, and we headed out from Abbott's this morning to try our luck for some early fall trout.
For those of you tempted to say "It was 90 degrees today! That's not fall!" The Hooch provides some excellent all natural air conditioning, and the run upstream from Abbott's was... 'refreshing' for the two goobers in the boat who'd dressed for warm weather.
We set up to throw mostly Rapalas, and 1Eye hooked up right off the bat. It pulled like a good fish, but it was a little bit green to be a trout. The first fish of our day was a feisty largemouth bass!
I got us started in the right direction with a solid brown, one of the best I've caught. 1eyefishing joined the party next with a less cooperative brown of his own. Then we got StripeRRHunteRR on the board with his very first GA brown trout!
We took it back to the ramp a bit before noon. Boated about 10 total, I'd say a 50/50 split browns and 'bows with the one largemouth thrown in. Raps did the majority of the damage, traditional colors, nothing super funky. If you get a chance to fish the river, take it! The Chattahoochee is a really special fishery and has really grown on me the more I've had a chance to fish it!
Fishing was good, and the company was better! Looking forward to getting after it with these guys again in the future! Thanks for 'The Call'!
For those of you tempted to say "It was 90 degrees today! That's not fall!" The Hooch provides some excellent all natural air conditioning, and the run upstream from Abbott's was... 'refreshing' for the two goobers in the boat who'd dressed for warm weather.
We set up to throw mostly Rapalas, and 1Eye hooked up right off the bat. It pulled like a good fish, but it was a little bit green to be a trout. The first fish of our day was a feisty largemouth bass!
I got us started in the right direction with a solid brown, one of the best I've caught. 1eyefishing joined the party next with a less cooperative brown of his own. Then we got StripeRRHunteRR on the board with his very first GA brown trout!
We took it back to the ramp a bit before noon. Boated about 10 total, I'd say a 50/50 split browns and 'bows with the one largemouth thrown in. Raps did the majority of the damage, traditional colors, nothing super funky. If you get a chance to fish the river, take it! The Chattahoochee is a really special fishery and has really grown on me the more I've had a chance to fish it!
Fishing was good, and the company was better! Looking forward to getting after it with these guys again in the future! Thanks for 'The Call'!
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