7.01.2006

July 4 Weekend - CJ Strike

Woke the crew up early to go fishing down at CJ Strike. With the blazing hot weather, we wanted to be on the water for just the morning and leave around noon, which worked out pretty good. Still got HOT! Had a pretty good time catching fish and driving around.
Here is the 'narrows' section where the Bruneau arm flows through a canyon to join the main portion of the lake in the Snake River arm.

We went upstream to the Cottonwood campground area where Shanna caught a fish on the first cast of her new fishing rod/reel combo. Now that's a good sign! On the way back, I somehow managed to catch a 5lb catfish on a crankbait. Had me going there for a minute thinking that I had mother hawg....

So the tally totaled 10 smallies, a nice 18" trout, a fat little perch, and one ugly catfish. C-ya, Sam