Underwater Color

Well I finally got out the last three saturdays to really start fishing for the season. Water is still real high and dirty. Cort caught a huge carp by Utah Lake. He fought it for like 15 minutes it seemed like.

Days gone by

Sher will be happy to hear I have no new fishing pics, so I found a few I took last year. The first one is The Castle Rocks. These are in Almo Id. where I grew up. I really liked this pic of the trout. I had the camera ready when I released him. Thought it turned out cool. And the last one is of Redfish Lake in Idaho. I took this pic while I was up helping my dad cut poles. Not a bad place to work.

Yeah, fish again

More trout pics. I could never bore of them. The bugs are hatchin and the moose are watchin.

Whiteout

Sunday morning I left my house at six a.m.. It took about two hours to get to Strawberry. It was snowing so hard I could barely see the turn off and I was only going 25MPH. So I get on the ice and the only thing that wasn't white is a part of the lake where the water comes in from the river. Everything else was white. The ground,sky, east and west, north and south. My tracks I made were filled with snow in about 20 min. So If I couldn't see the inlet (the only thing that wasn't white) I wouldn't know which way to get back to my truck. It was exciting. Caught three nice Cutthroats. When I was leaving I could not see the road and I got too far to the left and got stuck. I dug for an hour with no luck. That is when a new kind of fear came over me. Luckily I wasn't miles from the highway. So I walked to it and waved down help. So then I'm headin home and got to Midway to find out that Provo canyon is closed, cause of snow. So I went and crashed Jeff and Karen's Superbowl party and headed home the next morning. Adventure

Peaceful Day

It is always a peaceful day when you are fishing. Caught some more on my Bamboo Rod, as the snow slowly fell.

So Funny!!!!!!

Ice Fishing

Last weekend I went to central Utah with my friend Jed. It was my first time to go ice fishing. I caught the first one, but it was my only one. Jed caught six. Jed is holding a really nice Cutthroat he caught. His dad only caught one fish also, but it was a hog. 22 inches and 5 lbs. He caught it in the last half hour of a 8 hour fishing day. Goes to show that "Good things come to those that wait". Thayne is the one holding the bent rod. The last pic is me holding Thayne's trophy. I promised him I wouldn't tell anyone that I caught it, If he would let me take my pic with it.

Browns and Boo

I went up the canyon today to see if I could find some fish. With the dogs with me we had a fun time breakin through the snow. I think they liked it more than me. We found a few browns in the blizzard.

Bamboo Rod

After about 3 months of working on my rod, it is finished. Sher helped me take a few pics. It has exceded my expectations. I am very excited with the way it casts and feels. It was really worth the time it took building and i plan on building more.
I built the reel seat with the same piece of mahogany the i used to build the planing forms. I also used a 1920 Indian Head nickel on the butt.

Bamboo

Some Bamboo pics