Well, it is official, my buddy Nate Wood is having a little girl. He and Katty found out last week that they will be parents of a girl in November. So, I figured he might need a little down time in the sun, on a river, in a canoe, with a fishing pole…catching fish of course. So we left yesterday morning at 7 am and headed South toward Clinton Missouri and Weaubleau Creek(an Osage River arm near the Truman Res.) for an all day trip. Of course as soon as we got to the river (9am) and had dragged the boat down the steep, rocky embankment (with all the gear) to the river, it started to rain. But that did not deter us from going for it anyway. The weather ended up clearing up not long after we started and the sun came out in full force. The fishing was kinda slow to begin with but we started catching quite a few fish as the day went on. Nate caught 2 nice bass and we caught quite a few bluegill and sunfish also. But the kicker was when Buzz and John Hunter finally caught up to us a ways down river(did I tell you that they were with us also?). Anyway, Nate asked them if they had caught many fish(Nate was probably thinking that since it was slow for us that maybe it was slow for them also)and Buzz answered back “I stopped counting after 50″…and he was totally serious. I told Nate that God was being kind to Buzz cause he was about to turn 65.
Not long after this was when me and John climbed up a mud cliff and I wiped mud on my face and chest and ran off the cliff into the water…a mere 10 foot drop…into 5 feet of water. I didn’t even hit bottom. :0 When you see Nate make sure you give him a slap on the back of the neck…he will love it.
Jun 08