June 4, 2008

This is day three and the last day of our fishing trip. The weather isn’t very good. There is a heavy mist and it looks it could rain hard at anytime. The weather forecast is for sunny skies and temperature in the lower eighties. Hopefully the day will get better later.

Instead of going out on the lake this morning, we went to the sporting goods store where Bob bought his fly rod that broke and see about the lifetime guarantee. They are sending his rod back to the manufacturer for replacement. It will take a few weeks and then he will have a new fly rod. Here is Bob standing next a nice stringer of bluegill that the owner of the store caught.


These are some very large bluegill. We didn’t catch any like the big one but we did do well.

The weather did clear later in the morning and we headed for the lake. Today’s catch wasn’t a big as yesterday but the fish were larger. Once again we had very windy conditions on the lake making it difficult to put those magic poppers in the best places to catch fish. Rick caught the largest again today. He is a very good fisherman.

This is one of the fish Rick caught today. At the end of the afternoon, we had 30 good size fish to fillet.

Here you can see the novice, me, getting directions on how to land a nice fish. Bob is multitalented. He can take pictures and give instructions as the same time.

Rick is happily holding the largest bluegill he caught today.

The people that own the place where we stayed don’t enjoy fishing but love to eat them. After cleaning today’s catch, we gave them to these kind people who shared there home with us. I’m sure they will enjoy them as much if not more than we would.

We had a great time and three days does go by quickly when you have this much fun. Hopefully we will get the opportunity to do this again sometime. Thank you Bob and Rick for a very memorable fishing trip.