June 3, 2008

When we got up this morning, as predicted, it looked like it would rain today. We had a little rain in the morning and enough in the afternoon to make us stop fishing. Rick and I wore rain suits in the afternoon but a real man doesn’t need one.

Today is my birthday so they let me catch the most and have the honor of the biggest catch of the day. Thanks a lot for a terrific Birthday present. It was very windy in the morning and we had a hard time finding appropriate places to fish with a fly rod. We did catch fish but it wasn’t easy. After lunch the wind eased up a little and we caught fish in some of the places we couldn’t fish in the morning before getting rained out.

Later, the afternoon rain stopped and Rick wanted to go back out and see if we could catch a few more fish. We did have good luck and caught nice bluegills. Because of starting and stopping a couple of times today we didn’t think we had as many fish as yesterday’s 52. On the way to the boat dock, Rick took the fish from the live well and put them in a 5-gallon bucket and counted them. Much to our surprise, we caught 95 fish today and most were bigger than yesterday’s catch. Today we had a lot of 9 to 11 inch long bluegills.

All I could think of was how long it will take to fillet them. Rick and I handled this chore while Bob made our dinner.

Here are some more pictures from today.

This is what serious fishermen look like.

I bought this reference guide for Bob although he doesn’t think he needs it.

This is my biggest catch of the day.

Rick is happy with this catch and Bob is the proud Papa who taught Rick to fish.

Bob likes his catch also.

Did I tell you about the bass I caught?

Unfortunately Bob broke his rod landing this bluegill.

Today fog rolled in just before sunset.

This is the freezer with 294 fish fillets after two days of fishing.

All three of us are very tired and our backs ache from setting and standing in the boat all day. We should not have any problems falling to sleep tonight.