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ren ferry slip in excellent condition and two other parties already in the river and fishing the first series of riffles, We eased our boat into the stream, a simple operation from the paved ferry landing, and dug our paddles into the crystal clear water as we headed for midstream.
For the better part of an hour we unsuccessfully worked the usual smallmouth haunts—the riffles, rock ledges, the protected water behind midstream boulders, rock cliffs and rapids—running through our proven bass killer lures. Checking with the other two parties, we found their luck no better than ours. Yearning for action we switched to small underwater lures and proceeded to work the shoreline for sunfish. This proved to be the answer to our fishless stringers for we had soon strung half a dozen plump, yellowbreast sunfish. This change in tactics also brought us bass action as we found them near the shore under the overhanging vegetation. Soon several chunky bronzebacks joined the sunfish on our trailing stringers.
At about noon we hurtled the rapids at the Hatton ferry crossing and- pulled | ashore for lunch. The other 4 two parties left us there arfl 'after luiTch ^re drifted §> Scottsville with the river to ourselves. About midafter
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