Hiking The Appalachian Trail Georgia to Maine

Thought you guys might enjoy following the adventures of Nathan Gressett one of my former students who is hiking the Appalachian Trail. He started his epic journey in Georgia 3 weeks ago and will complete the hike in Maine sometimes in late September or early October. He has not posted anything for the past couple of weeks because he got his cell phone wet and lost all contact. He will be back on line in a couple of days so if you would like to keep track of his journey just type his name in Utube search and it will give you his progress.

 

The beginning of the trip

 

Second day of the hike

 

Springer Mountain

 

Bat hunting on the trail

 

Neal's Gap

 

Blood Mountain

 

Dick's Creek Gap

 

Cow Rock Mountain

 

Low Gap Georgia

 

Low Gap is his last report

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



Bedding Bluegills Doesn't Mean They Will Hit

I found the bluegills bedding today, but the only problem they were not cooperating as far as hitting my offerings. I have seen this happen a couple of times over the years and today the fish were in lock jaw mode. I could see some on the beds swimming around, and they were not the least bit concerned with me close by. Even the cricket fishermen couldn’t muster a hit either. So what to do; because this happen as soon as I got on the water and I knew then it was going to be a slow morning.

My first fish of the morning using the Seal Leech. It is a dink, but it is a fish and got the skunk off my back.

A nice female full of eggs. She inhaled the Seal Leech. Nothing was happening on top and both these fish were caught in deep water.

I finally manage to land this bull bluegill on top right before the sun covered the lake. He was resting in a small cove off the main body of the lake. There were no more with him, because I sit and made cast after cast without any further action in the area.

The take home catch for the morning. One big bull and three females. I landed four or five smaller females that I released. I will blame the slow action today on a cold night, bluebird skies, wind out of the east, too much fishing pressure the last week or just plain and simply the fish were not biting. I get to count one for quest today. I am now 82 away.