Thu, Nov 26 2009
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The older you get, easier it becomes to sit back, reflect I remember camping on gravel bars with my grandpa. Back then a cup of coffee had coffee-grounds in it, and you rolled up in a blanket under a canvas lean-to and tried to find a soft place in the gravel. And you never turned a bass loose.
Grandpa use to talk about how lucky I was that things were so much better for me than they had been when he was a boy. I thought about using this column to explain how you can take a small river boat and a paddle and pack the right gear in it and spend three or four days on the river like we did, but I got to thinking that if I keep doing that, we won’t be able to spend days like we did this past week all alone. And really, no one who has an ambition to get off all by themselves to enjoy the river has to be told how to do it, they already know. But most people are more consumed right now about how bad the economy is, and they are busy with more important things. So for me, mid-week makes the river, way downstream from any access points, a very secluded place. And that is nice. I may do it again next week because the color of October still isn’t at its peak, and the smallmouth are still hungry. I may camp on a gravel bar and get up early and fish a little or hunt a little. ... Or then again I may sit there and watch the river carry away last summer’s leaves and think about the time I caught that big bass several years back. I wouldn’t mind taking someone along who can keep the skillet clean, keep the fire going and cook, and set up a tent. Claudia Mundell, from Carthage, Mo., won the contest to see if a lady could write a good outdoor story for my magazine, the Lightnin’ Ridge Outdoor Journal. Mrs. Mundell won the $50. prize for her story about a trout fisherman. Readers of this column who would like to submit a story for our Christmas magazine need to send them in before Thanksgiving. We will again award a $50 dollar prize to the winner. It needs to have a Christmas or a winter theme, of course. Address correspondence to Larry Dablemont, Box 22, Bolivar, Mo., 65613. Send e-mail to lightninridge@alltel.net, check the Web site www.larrydablemont.com, or call (417) 777-5227. 
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