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Kayak Adventures with my boy #4159906
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Me and my oldest have been out in it in with the kayak recently.

Two weekends ago, me and my buddy Joe took our four year old boys on a 13 mile trip down the Cahaba from Jericho to the highway 14 boat launch. Can't say enough good things about the young un's they did an awesome job. Hung in there tough the whole time
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Last weekend we fished a section of Valley Creek I grew up fishing when I was a kid. Brought back so many memories being back on this creek. Felt good to take my boy back to my old stomping grounds. We started hauling in some pretty decent sized spots before the rain caught us. Ended up catching 38 total Saturday afternoon. When the bottom fell out we hunkered down under an overhanging limb and ate our sandwiches his momma had packed for us. Such good memories. Thank you, Lord.
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Re: Kayak Adventures with my boy [Re: Nightwatchman] #4159907
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Yep good times and some nice bass!

Re: Kayak Adventures with my boy [Re: Nightwatchman] #4159914
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Good times. Those are some nice creek spots!



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Re: Kayak Adventures with my boy [Re: Nightwatchman] #4159915
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Re: Kayak Adventures with my boy [Re: Nightwatchman] #4159936
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Where did you put in and take out on Valley Creek? Is that John's Rd to Lock 17 Rd? Those are the only two that I see since they fenced off the area by the treatment plant. That's 13 miles!


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Originally Posted by William
Where did you put in and take out on Valley Creek? Is that John's Rd to Lock 17 Rd? Those are the only two that I see since they fenced off the area by the treatment plant. That's 13 miles!



The 13 mile trip was last weekend on the cahaba. This past saturday is when we floated valley creek.

A fella behind my dads house was nice enough to let us take out on his place. It was about a 2 mile float from Johns road.

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Re: Kayak Adventures with my boy [Re: Nightwatchman] #4159959
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Re: Kayak Adventures with my boy [Re: Nightwatchman] #4159986
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πŸ‘ŠπŸ»πŸŽ£πŸ‘πŸ»πŸ‘πŸ» good times indeed!


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Can’t make it more better than that

Re: Kayak Adventures with my boy [Re: Nightwatchman] #4160253
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Great time had there!!


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Thats awesome
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Re: Kayak Adventures with my boy [Re: Nightwatchman] #4169392
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Awesome! We started taking our grandkids with us when they were about the same age...they loved it as much as we do, and are still always eager to hit the water!


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Good looking young men. Those are some nice fish from that area.

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Re: Kayak Adventures with my boy [Re: Nightwatchman] #4171970
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Me and the boy jumped back out in it this weekend. Luckily my dad joined in on the fun. Great times, awesome memories, thank you LORD!
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Re: Kayak Adventures with my boy [Re: Nightwatchman] #4201404
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Spent most of the weekend in Orange Beach totally getting skunked. Decided I missed my boy so we jumped in the truck and headed home. Managed to get home in time to make an afternoon of it. We wore 'em out. I don't know how many we caught, probably 75. Darn near burned the bearings out of our reels. Thank you, Lord for this little boy
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Where's yall go this time?


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Originally Posted by William
Where's yall go this time?


Same stretch of Valley Creek behind my dad's house. It is a pretty easily navigable run for the boy and if he gets bored I can flip a spoon out there and catch a dink or two to keep him interested. I have historically caught the bigger fish in holes slow fishing soft plastics, though. There are a couple of deep drop offs and rock walls we typically stop at and I target some bigger fish while he digs around and gathers up "Sea Shells" for his momma in some smaller pools. Usually our lunch spot as well

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Valley Creek is still on my list. Haven't been out there because we haven't had any rain. Johns Rd to Lock 17 Rd is 13 miles and is ambitious even with the water up. There looks to be a takeout on Loftis Ln where an old bridge crosses the creek there. Might ride out there one day and see if that's useable.


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Originally Posted by William
Valley Creek is still on my list. Haven't been out there because we haven't had any rain. Johns Rd to Lock 17 Rd is 13 miles and is ambitious even with the water up. There looks to be a takeout on Loftis Ln where an old bridge crosses the creek there. Might ride out there one day and see if that's useable.


I will go with you if you want me to. I grew up fishing it when I was younger. We used to float from behind my dads house to Rock creek, no boat, no canoe, no nothing, just float on your back all day.

Used to get out there during the summer and float and wander around in the woods and come out on Middlebrooks drive in Adger.. had to walk down the road until we came up on a house, knock on the door, ask to use the phone, call my dad, and ask him to come get us

Awesome times back there as a kid

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Awesome, great trip and fish!

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Looks great, thanks for posting! Valley Creek looks bigger than a lot of rivers.


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Originally Posted by poorcountrypreacher
Looks great, thanks for posting! Valley Creek looks bigger than a lot of rivers.


It is a beautiful tributary....so sad how it has been abused over the years via various chemical spills, however, I will say that it looks better now than it ever has(other than the B'ham hide and tallow grease spill a couple months ago). There have been days where it was a pretty nasty cesspool

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Valley Creek where it enters the Warrior looks like one of those floating plastic bottle islands that you hear about in the Pacific Ocean. It is awful.


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Originally Posted by William
Valley Creek where it enters the Warrior looks like one of those floating plastic bottle islands that you hear about in the Pacific Ocean. It is awful.


It used to look that way all up and down the creek. Not as bad anymore but there is still some trash. But down there where it drains in at Clevengers, yes it is very bad

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Thanks for sharing your trip with us!


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