Cranberry River 2011

.....and we went again. This is a reoccurring theme for us. We hopped in the car last Sunday July 24th. It was pouring down rain....which put us a bit behind. So we finally got rolling about 3pm or so towards West Virginia....we were hell bent on doing some trout fishing.
..... We didn't get to the top on the Mountain until about 10pm. It had done some raining in this neck of the woods as well.....so we camped at the top of the mountain, next to the car......gonna hike in at daybreak.....that we did.
.....We got down to the river in quick time the next morning, July 25th.....found a shelter along the river and strung up our Hammocks.....made camp in like 20minutes and got our fishing stuff ready and headed out....


.....now summer fishing on the streams can be terrible. The water in usually low, temps are up, and the fish tend to be spooky as hell....and all this was true, the conditions sucked which meant that one or both of us should have gotten skunked....but that was not to be the case....I fished pretty hard that day landed 3 nice trout and lost about 3 others....not bad for that time of year.....Marshall land 5 or 6, and also lost a couple....pretty good day no matter how you looked at it.

.....What saved us was the fact that is was over cast and rainy that day. We did a lot of hiking and fishing...

Lots of wildlife on this trip....turkeys and deer....then on the morning of the 26th, before our hike up the mountain we had a visitor from a black bear who walked through our camp early in the morn....I got that on video....he just passed by and went along on his route to wherever....very nice.

Tight lines....go fish.