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Planned this trip for months. Bought two extra kayaks for the kids. Get up to Hondah to buy our permits just to be told that reservation, pacheta, etc. are all closed due to fire danger. Had to stay on the 260 corridor. Went to horseshoe and it was a complete mess. Campers everywhere. Ended up camping at A1. Lots of small stockers, about 6 to 8 inches. Biggest one was 13. Hit bog tank for a few hours. Dirty, dirty, dirty place. My buddy actually reeled in a used tampon. That was when we could fish between the wind and rain. Still a good trip, just didn't get to go where we wanted to. 

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9 hours ago, ctafoya said:

Planned this trip for months. Bought two extra kayaks for the kids. Get up to Hondah to buy our permits just to be told that reservation, pacheta, etc. are all closed due to fire danger. Had to stay on the 260 corridor. Went to horseshoe and it was a complete mess. Campers everywhere. Ended up camping at A1. Lots of small stockers, about 6 to 8 inches. Biggest one was 13. Hit bog tank for a few hours. Dirty, dirty, dirty place. My buddy actually reeled in a used tampon. That was when we could fish between the wind and rain. Still a good trip, just didn't get to go where we wanted to. 

That's a drag.  Glad you stuck it out and made the most of it, though.

Last year this exact same thing happened to a group of us that do an annual Christmas Tree lake fly trip.  Had to adjust last minute, and ended-up on NF land (Big Lake, Black River, etc...).  This year, our annual trip was planned weekend before last, so we lucked-out and just beat the closure.   In the old days it seemed rare that there were forest closures.  These days, it seems like almost an annual occurrence.  :( 

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10 hours ago, trphyhntr said:

 

Lucky 

Catch and release. 

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