Fall Break

Over fall break, I went to Arkansas to go fishing. Every year for the past 3 years my dad, my brother, and I have gone there to fish. We leave straight from school Wednesday and get most of the eight hour drive done with before we crash at a hotel usually in the Memphis area. We wake up early the next morning and head straight to fish. This time we actually stopped before where we stay and fished at a new area for a good bit of the first day. The fishing there was not great so we left and went to our main honey hole.

That honey hole is called Dry Run Creek. It is a small stream that is very accessible. You can only fish there if you are mobile impaired or under 16, you must catch and release all fish, you must mash the barb off your hook, and you can not fish before sunrise or after sunset. There is a special spot at the back of that stream that people are not usually at where we catch most of our fish. You can basically throw anything at those fish and they will eat it right up. I have caught the biggest trout of my life back in that hole, some up to 25 or 26 inches.

Another great thing about going to Arkansas over fall break is that the weather is absolutely perfect. Most days the weather is somewhere in the 50s or 60s. It usually doesn't rain while were there. It really always makes me feel like it is really fall rather than Louisiana fall while I'm there. It is very nice drifting down the river in a boat. It feels like I could do that all year, so I always wish fall break was a full week.

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  1. Sophia GOctober 20, 2016 at 11:48 AM

    I like how you described why that honey hole was special for you and for others. I also like how you started a new topic for the 3rd paragraph but still helps the main idea of fall break.

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