Opening of Trout Fishing

We tried something different this year and setup camp at a campground next to one of our favorite trout streams. Friday night at Mark and Pattis house, Saturday night at the campground. No tent as we were going to sleep in the vehicles.



As we were setting up, re-Pete drove in. He had just finished fishing and had his limit (give or take). Finally we got fishing on Saturday; got our limit; had dinner back at camp... trout, beans, and potatoes all washed down with Point Amber and a New Glarus Brewery sampler pack... Spotted Cow, Fat Squirrel, Uff-da, and about 5 other kinds. We had a bocce ball tournament which was quite a shoot-out. Jerod pulled out to an early 8-0 lead, but I came back and won with a 21-10 whooping.



Jerod opted to sleep in the Honda, Pete and I tried to sleep in the Tahoe, but the initial arrangement had our feet higher than our heads and when Pete tried to switch around he became all frazzled and decided to sleep sitting up in his own vehicle in the driver seat. That left the whole floor of the Tahoe for me, which was great except I got very cold and did not sleep too well. Pete did not sleep much in his vehicle either, so next year we bring the camper. I seem to remember somebody wanting the camper in the first place this year... hmmm.


We slept so bad that we got up and had breakfast, then packed up camp as we already knew we were not going to be sleeping like that again. We did some heavy duty fishing, getting our limits at one spot, then decided to try an area we had not fished before. It was a big, deep, lawn-chair, bobber-type hole that we usually do not fish but we gave it a shot. I caught a small one below the hole, then a 10 inch brook trout in the hole. Jerod had gone up stream to check things out and came back saying everything looked pretty bad upstream. He started fishing just above the big hole I was working on. All of a sudden I had a big one on so I yelled to Jerod and he cam over and helped me get it up on the bank. Jerod said the hook was barely in the lip, and when it got up on the bank, the hook fell out completely. That was close... turned out to be an 18.25 inch brown trout. I believe it is actually the largest trout I have ever caught.

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