Thread: Bushkill Creek, Bushkll, PA 2018 Vacation

Day Five


Yay!
Nate finally gets his almost two day skunk off him around 2pm with a smallish Smallmouth.
Then around an hour later at another spot he hung into a beautiful Brookie.
Incredible colors on it, love the blue dots with red centers.





And I landed yet another Rainbow and a Brown.
One more and its a limit for me, bet I get it after dinner.

Originally Posted by ChileRelleno

Day Five


Yay!
Nate finally gets his almost two day skunk off him around 2pm with a smallish Smallmouth.
Then around an hour later at another spot he hung into a beautiful Brookie.
Incredible colors on it, love the blue dots with red centers.





And I landed yet another Rainbow and a Brown.
One more and its a limit for me, bet I get it after dinner.

Tell Nate to flip a few rocks and gather a couple of crawfish and use the tail for those trout.

don't for get the helgrammites!

Day Five

The ladies, two women and a girl, got up at the crack of dawn and went off sightseeing and shopping down in Lancaster, PA... Amish Country.
My wife better not return with a rental truck full of furniture... It happened in central IL one time

So the gents, after sleeping in till almost 8am, enjoyed a leisurely home cooked breakfast and then followed the ladies lead.
We hit up the largest sporting goods store in the area, Dunkelbergers in Stroudsburg, and did a little shopping too.
Then we decided to go sightseeing and drove out to Resica Falls, which involves some nice backwoods roads and mountain views.

Then back to the cabin where I finally processed and cooked that Sea Lamprey.
It was actually pretty good, and not intimidating at all with that horror movie head chopped off, much like handling eels... Mmmm, I love eel.
It was like a cross between squid and clam, but not chewy, a nice bite through consistency.
Nate and I really liked it.

I started by cleaning and chunking it into four inch pieces.
Then I parboiled it order to be able to wipe off the slime coat.
After cooling and drying I removed the cartilage and left the skin on, cut down the center and cut the chunks into one inch pieces.
EVOO, onion, garlic and bell pepper into a sauce pan and lightly saute.
Add lamprey and saute for about 10 minutes, add white wine and deglaze pan.
Add in tomato sauce, I used an upscale bottled sauce that was tasty.
Simmer covered for about an half hour or until lamprey is al dente.
Serve over pasta or buttered toast.







Finale

Day Six

Wow, what a morning... Hi's and Lows abound.

I start of early this morning catching an average sized Rainbow, keep fishing switching out spots and land the biggest Rainbow of the trip, get it netted and to the bank.
Hooray, I'm ecstatic, this fish has to be 18"-20"!
I pop the hook out of it's mouth and it violently flops out of the net, gives three more huge flops and slides down a wet mud bank and back into the river as I'm desperately trying to grab it.
Talk about a morale crushing blow.

Ok, I can get over it, I keep fishing and moving, and I'm in a quiet spot casting when across the creek I notice a spotted fawn stand up in a patch of grass right on the edge of the creek.
Its not 15 yards from me and wholly unafraid, it watches me, it settles back down into the grass where I can clearly see it. I pull my phone out of it's "waterproof pocket" in my waders and get a few pics and even some video when it stood up again, cool stuff.
Never did see it's doe and I left it alone.

Keep fishing and decide to cross the creek in a likely looking spot, not too deep, not too fast, as I can see rocks/bottom all the way across.
I get about to the middle and find that I've managed to get atop a huge flat rock covered with slime.
Slip #1, and I'm wet, damn get off this rock!
Slip #2, much wetter, cussing, where is the edge of this slab?
Trying to find footing, how big is this F#cking thing, Slip #3 and I'm almost swimming.
But hey, I'm off the giant assed slip and slide of a rock slab!
Slip#4 and I'm sputtering cuss words with water and finally stagger into a few inches of water, out of breath and waders full of water.
Wow, I still have my rod, nothing lost out of vest pockets and I'm not hurt/drowned.
Life is good.
Then my phone starts making random noises... Oh crapola!
Yep, that waterproof pocket wasn't waterproof... I give it up and slosh 1/2 a mile back to the cabin.
Phone is toast, gonna have to buy a new one.
And my pics of the fawn are history.

I might go back out later and scour the section of river I caught that PB best Bow in, he might still be around.

ouch, that sucks!!! Try opening the phone and drying it before you give up. And pull the sim card, the pics should be on it.

I slipped off a rock just after ice out one year and completely went under, that was mighty chilly. Luckily the water wasnt too deep and I had a buddy with me who could laugh while pulling my wet a$$out of the water.

Immerse the phone in dry rice. Could possibly absorb all the water out of it and make it function again, maybe not great, but perhaps enough to get your pics off of it. Will probably need to sit in the rice for a good 12-24 hours. Remove SIM card per Carl's comment below.

Day Six

After this morning I hung it for the day and went back to bed.
I must've been a little depressed cause I slept till that evening.
Got up and fixed a nice dinner for everyone.

Creek and Turf

Day Seven

Got up early and went hunting for 'The One That Got Away'.
Nate and I both combed that particular section and up and downstream of it.
Neither of us hooked any monsters but we did get a few.

Going upstream I noticed a familiar patch of golden brown in the same patch of grass from yesterday, and there was the same fawn. I called to Nate so he could come get a look, we edged up pretty close before the fawn took off up the steep hillside, stopping to watch us. Again no sign of it's Doe.
I figure it was abandoned or lost in a creek crossing, or maybe it's Doe got killed, don't know.
But I do know it isn't going to last long, some bear or pack of yotes is going to find it.