Today Dennis and saw the river gauge at Fransisco at 2.18 and we thought it would be a good time to do Jessup's mill run on the Dan River. We dropped a car at the Hart's access and put in at Jessup's Mill. It is around a 6 mile run. The folks at Jessup's Mill are very nice, tubing and let us park our car there. I can not wait until they get everything fixed up there. It is a work in progress. Jessup's Mill has camping and music a couple of times a month. http://jessupmill.com/?page_id=538
When we got into to the water I noticed the painted river guage on the bridge said 1.9ft and the water was very muddly from the rain last night. This was a fun run but I would have liked it at a 2.00ft or higher. It is very hard to read the river lines in shallow water when the water is so muddy. We bumped and scraped our share of rocks that we could not see coming. Came the closest I have come yet to flipping today, twice. I did a 360 degrees spin on two occasions stuck on a rock as well.
I found a new fishing technique today. Just paddle our orange liquid logic coupes down the Dan River and trout just jump out of the water into the back of your boat, at least that what happened to Dennis. Discovered that the river guage for Fransisco is close to the Hart access. It stated a 1.9 when we got out. I'll have to remember that.
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