Needed a Bigger Cooler

[Double L]

Great catch. When's the fish fry?

[Ron]

Now that looks like a nice relaxing fishing trip! Congratulations on your catch.

[Snapper]

You must really know how to pack a yak. Everything you needed right there. Great story & pictures. Thanks for taking us along.

[Bonesplitter]

Awesome, thank's for taking us along!

[Txhuntergurl82]

Awesome fish congrats

[Angola'sBest]

Awesome Blue!!

[Roy]

Wow- a fish story with evidence! Impressive to say the least.

A kayak is on my wish-list and trips like these are not making the wait any easier. Well done fellas!

[Chew]

Now that's an adventure! You should read this book if you haven't. I just finished it...(about a guy camping and fishing on the Brazos).

[fox1]

Congrats on a good fish and a better story. Were did you get that bad to the bone yack ?

[Codie]

dang good trip right there! Congrats on the Blue

[mossbear]

Some lemon butter and a touch of paprika on the catfish "slabs" over a mesquite/oak fire, some Corona to wash it down with...

[DarrellS]

Congrats on a good fish and a better story. Were did you get that bad to the bone yack ?

We both build Kayaks. I have a build going now in the DIY section.

[stick and strin]

This was really a fun trip.
Darrel and I always have a good time we believe in eating paddling ,watching out for each other , camping , our personality's just fit and even if the fish are not biting we have a ball.
We saw and heard a lot of wildlife ,hogs fighting, owls. two coyotes walked out within 50 ft ,king fishers , killdees ,sandhill cranes. Darrel caught a turtle I had never seen ,his shell looked like a polished slab of wood ,maybe he will post a pic.
The food was great, I never once wished for an mre or a can of beany weineys
This trip brought back a lot of memories. My first experience fishing in this spot was a long time ago ,I was fifteen at the time . Lynn took me there on a day fishing trip. Lynn was my mentor on the Brazos and knew more about that river ,the holes and catching the fish than anyone I have ever met.He was in his 80 at the time and had fished and hunted the river since he was a kid. I wish I had written down a lot of stories he told me. In the five years we fished together he drug me up and down about a 40 mile stretch of the Brazos always the teacher, I will forever be grate ful for his expertise and dragging a teenager along and introducing me to the grand lady THE BRAZOS.
I sat bye the fire and looked around ,thinking how camping had changed , tents cots kayaks stoves grills , all the gear that we haul that really makes a fun camping trip. I sat there and thought of what we used back then,a wool army blanket was your bedroll, slept on the ground ,your jacket was the pillow, an empty ,never used, gallon paint can was used to carry coffee and food in, then when you got to camp it was dipped in the river a handfull of coffee thrown in <river coffee , lay a small stick across the top so it would boil over and a few egg shell thrown in to settle the grounds. Never bought bait nature always supplied it. It was special time in my life .
Darrel congratulations on the big fish and I enjoyed it as always.
Ron

[Speedgoat]

Man, that is awesome. I need to take my kayak out and do something like that.

[quackerback]

that's a nice cat