Today I decided to give up on putting the boat in the water any more until after winter. I guess because I am not expecting it to warm up enough for me to get out there in the cold. not even sure that the river wont start freezing up within the next couple weeks anyway. I might try to bundle up and cast a little in the pit from land and keep myself close to a truck that can quickly warm me up. I don’t want to imagine what it would be like to be in the boat and have the motor not start. Burrrrr

Its too dark to add any Pix.

Maybe I will take some tomorrow when I take the motor off.

Mom finally went out on the boat with me. The river was a little choppy because the wind was coming and going but the boat was pretty stable. She seemed to enjoy herself.

I was hoping to show her the Eagles that have been flying around the river but they must have been hiding. I did show her the eagles nest but there weren’t any eagles in it. I have watched the eagles fly around several times.

She had never seen the houses with riverfront property from the perspective of the river so that was interesting to her. I have a dream to someday have one of the houses on the river. I think it would be pretty awesome to put some poles out in the morning and sit behind my computer looking out a window at my poles.

This picture is of my boat shortly after i finished installing the seats. They make the boat a lot more comfortable especially when spending several hours on the river. Now that i have used the seats several times i don’t think I would ever want to go fishing in a boat with standard benches. The seats make it so much easier for me and 1 passenger.

Picture of me getting the boat ready to head out on the river. Not sure how many more nice warm days left in this year so I have been making every attempt to get as much fishing in as I possibly can when its sunny. I don’t think the cooling weather will keep me totally away from fishing just wont be out for as long of periods of time.

This drum fish wouldnt stop wiggling long enough for me to take a better picture. it flipped and flopped until it bounced off the pier and back into the river.

I took this pix of myself and i think it turned out pretty good. its not that easy to take a picture and get myself in it. This is a pretty decent sized small mouth bass. I know there are alot bigger ones in other places but for fishing in the river in byron i think its above average size.

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I caught a couple others that i didn’t take pictures of but they were all the same kinds of fish. Didn’t catch anything really good or big but it was fun catching the fish i did catch.