kayakfishgirl
03-27-2006, 10:40 AM
Heard that Pamunkey had an explosion of Bass on Saturday...sure did!
Mattaponi SHAD are coming in and I caught some. All over the depth finder. Can't wait for the RUSH.
Watched the sunset as I floated down the Matt to look over to the side and see a deer drinking water...awh, pretty. Floated down to where it was drinking as it had already left and heard some leaves and twigs crackin' and thought more were on the way to drink. Held onto my dear Tarzan(dog) as he was bundled up in a towel in my lap so when he saw them he wouldn't bark.
Sure enough here comes a HUGE beaver, she or he didn't even know we were RIGHT there and it litteraly dropped itself in the water sideways startled. I laughed, Tarzan thought he was "guard of the yak" jumps up over the depth finder to the front edge of the yak and realizes he is falling in and tries to dig his little claws into the yak and goes completely under the water like a fat sinker! I reach down and he is scared as the beaver is RIGHT there with us. I grab the paddle and turn my yak to have Tarzan swim to the back end of the yak and hold on like a little person with both paws until he let's go because the beaver smacked it's tail and water went everywhere. He gets to the bank just as the Beaver does. Beaver's HISSSSS? He squeals, runs back down the bank of the river and jumps into the yak on my lap, I wrap him back up in the towel, he is shacking from the cold and starts to bark again at the Beaver like "I am back with my Mom, what you gonna do now"! I paddled away to keep looking behind me thinking that Beaver is gonna kill us both.
So much for the sunset.
I paddled a little ways down and get out the yak to check him out and wrap him in extra gear I had in a dry bag and he will not move out of the seat in the yak AT ALL. Poor boy! I continued to catch a few more shad and call it a night. He stopped shacking when the heat came on in the truck.
This is not the first time he thinks he can surf. Big bark but if anything comes to close to him...right in my arms he goes. Mama's boy.
Anyway....here come the shad in Aylett.
'Andrea
Mattaponi SHAD are coming in and I caught some. All over the depth finder. Can't wait for the RUSH.
Watched the sunset as I floated down the Matt to look over to the side and see a deer drinking water...awh, pretty. Floated down to where it was drinking as it had already left and heard some leaves and twigs crackin' and thought more were on the way to drink. Held onto my dear Tarzan(dog) as he was bundled up in a towel in my lap so when he saw them he wouldn't bark.
Sure enough here comes a HUGE beaver, she or he didn't even know we were RIGHT there and it litteraly dropped itself in the water sideways startled. I laughed, Tarzan thought he was "guard of the yak" jumps up over the depth finder to the front edge of the yak and realizes he is falling in and tries to dig his little claws into the yak and goes completely under the water like a fat sinker! I reach down and he is scared as the beaver is RIGHT there with us. I grab the paddle and turn my yak to have Tarzan swim to the back end of the yak and hold on like a little person with both paws until he let's go because the beaver smacked it's tail and water went everywhere. He gets to the bank just as the Beaver does. Beaver's HISSSSS? He squeals, runs back down the bank of the river and jumps into the yak on my lap, I wrap him back up in the towel, he is shacking from the cold and starts to bark again at the Beaver like "I am back with my Mom, what you gonna do now"! I paddled away to keep looking behind me thinking that Beaver is gonna kill us both.
So much for the sunset.
I paddled a little ways down and get out the yak to check him out and wrap him in extra gear I had in a dry bag and he will not move out of the seat in the yak AT ALL. Poor boy! I continued to catch a few more shad and call it a night. He stopped shacking when the heat came on in the truck.
This is not the first time he thinks he can surf. Big bark but if anything comes to close to him...right in my arms he goes. Mama's boy.
Anyway....here come the shad in Aylett.
'Andrea