Hunting journal, v4471
Page 101
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Kirby's Bar, Weydham (7) July 8, 1978 We drove to Weydham and had a visit with Henry Heath. He had a doctor's appointment that sent us on to Kirby's with the assurance that he would join me later. I was amazed at the change that the Nov. 1977 flood had rendered - Kirby's Bar is essentially gone and the suspension bridge to the island has disappeared. He walked across to the head of the island and fished down the newly cut channel to the old suspension bridge. Ted and I both located picking fish along the cut bank as Ted hooked and landed his. Later Bobby showed up and he hooked me below where Ted caught his, so we had two fish in hand at lunch time. Henry Heath and Jim Haly joined us for lunch and we enjoyed some stream-cooled cans of beer and a bottle of wine while we rolled around in the grass telling lies. After lunch Henry and I went downstream to a big pool where we spent the afternoon casting to a rising fish (4 to 5 lbs. Henry said) that refused us. He returned to camp as all repaired to Henry's house for beer, shorted, tea and biscuits. Then we went to a new hole above Weydham and cast away the evening until nearly 10 PM. Jim Haly caught two fish. None of the rest of us did a damner thing.