I spent a few hours along the mighty Allegheny River this morning. A fog engulfed the area. I enjoy watching the fog drift past me like wisps of smoke from a wood fire. One never knows what might appear as the fog lifts.
I didn’t have a lot of worms, but, I did manage to catch a couple of nice smallmouth bass. I had some subtle nibbles at times. The end of the pole would dance, but ever so slightly. Suckers? I used to catch a lot of Eastern Sand (We would call them Sand Pikes in our youth.) Darters. is fish never grew to over nine inches or so. They were difficult to catch. Their mouths were small so bigger hooks caused many a miss. I had one interesting thing happen. A muskie followed one of my retrieves to within six feet of me. The Two-footer remained in site for several minutes.
Mother mallard (Notice the yellow duckling.)
Other critter sightings included a mother duck with two ducklings and various small birds. I quit around 9:00 in the morning and eventually went to the church to prepare a 16 foot 18th century-style cardboard ship for vacation Bible school.
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