Hello Riflemen-I have been starting some of my fishing trips early before sunrise. I do this when I want to be at a certain fishing spot at first light. Thought you might like to see the river as we see it then-
Looking east and drifting west. for the first 45 minutes of daylight or so there is too much glare on the water to see any rocks at any depth-


Drifting west away from a bridge some of you may be familiar with-



I'm not sure where this is and bet I was really trying to figure it out when I took this photo-



This water is completely reflective at this point of the morning-



He should have been fishing 12 minutes ago-

Cool stuff and great photos BL!

I hope to see those views one day bud. One day for sure!

Hey BL. What's with the dead reckoning. Pretty hard to get lost on a river. You can usually see land, and you can generally tell if you're going upstream or down. Now the ocean, that's a different story.

Jim shared a valuable secret with me the first time I met him.....roads and rivers both run Both Ways

Yea, but if you can't figure which way is upstream and which is down, your in a vegatative state.

I get confused once in awhile and row up the 8 miles to the next boat ramp. I usually figure something is up befor I get half way there bl

Hello Riflemen-Dead Reckoning, if I can figger out whether it's evening or morning I can use the sun for finding east then if I know that with a few complicated computations I can determine if I'm going downstream or upstream. It's called navigation and is offered as a home schooling class by several different sources but it does require some serious maff background and a goodly amount of serious study. Most folks just leave this up to the guide (me). More times than not I will navigate from the "put in" to the "take out" without much problem. Life is good, Bestlever

best way to tell where the sun is, is put on yer sunglasses.....if it's light...the sun is in front of ya; if'n it's dark, the sun is behind ya!!! If'n you hear laughter, somebody what knows ya is nearby! and it's overcast! that's dead-reckoning!!

ya reckon? yup! got an idee!!...ever been ta West Virginia??

looks like summer, I reckon....short sleeved shirts!

sunrise or sunset? depends...stomach growls it's sunset, I reckon!
no ice in the river...reckon it's definitely summer!

if the boat stops in the water, I reckon the water is low, or BL is asleep midship. if'n ya tallk and git no answer, I reckon it's the later!

Dead reckomning surely works!!