I took a day trip out west with my good friend Jeff to visit the Apple Canyon River & Kishwaukee River. Jeff camps every summer at Apple Canyon River with his family , and had some good small mouth bass fishing there. We left early and got there just as the sun was coming up. The water was lower than normal, so the fishing was not as good, but it was still beautiful. We walked and scouted the river, throwing our lines here and there. After we had lunch, we headed back east to the Kishwaukee River, somewhere neither of us had been. It was larger river with less wading access, but was supposed to be good for pikes and small mouths. We walked and marked the points. I sighted some fish towards the bridge and threw in a brown woolly bugger to check out what it was. It seemed to be a sort of carp, although I am not sure what exact species it is. It was sizable, and fun to catch. I threw some smaller poppers and caught a few blue gills in the resting pools. It was good trip, just catching up on life, on changes that were coming, and transforming into new chapters in our lives. All things change, sometimes a little unexpectedly, but we remain hopeful that it is for the better.
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