The Cake Is A Lie

Pretty Much Epic

I left Emalie snoozing in bed around 4am on Saturday.

By the time I was passing through Downtown Dallas it was raining and my joy was mixed with the worry that it would screw up my fishing...

I arrived in Athens about an hour and 45 minutes later and was pushing the john boat, sans motor, into the drink about 6:30.

I was fishing a boogle bug popper with a #12 Surveyor Nymph w/tungsten head and after that got lost I switched to a #12 Silver Lightning Bug.



Red Spot Sunfish on a psych prince




Gill Zilla



Nice Native Strain Bluegill





Wedged my self here

Caught fish there


Fed a gator...






Sunday Emalie and I visited the Folks and she caught some little bluegills in the neighborhood...

More from Alaska

I am heading out to East Texas this weekend, hopefully I will have some nice gillPorn to post early next week...

Until then, enjoy some Pike!


My buddy Pat getting out of the float plane on Alexia Lake

His Biggest Snot Rocket

Here there be monsters


How come I can catch a dozen of these, but I can't catch a cahin pickerel for the life of me!?

Big Shallow Lake


Gotta love the Tyger Wire!

Way to go Pasqual!

I love Umpqua Fly Boxes

I don't mean to gush but these are great fly boxes. I have owned C&F, Clifton, Orvis and a few others...but these Umpqua boxes are my new favorite.

1. I like being able to see the flies through the clear case.



2. The foam is really high quality and doesn't rip.



3. Variety of sizes and layouts.



4. Strong hinges and closing clasps.



5. Aesthetically pleasing colors.

I need to try out their streamer/flats box

http://www.flyfishusa.com/flyboxes/Umpqua/umpqua-fly-boxes.html

I Can See It Raining Fire In The Sky

Emalie and I visited some friends in Breckinridge Colorado near the end of last week and over the weekend. We went on a float trip on the Colorado, did a hike up to an Alpine lake to search for Cutthroat and visited a mining museum. We also enjoyed the mornings that were 38 degrees...


Colorado Brown Trout. Whater was high and muddy but we still managed a couple dozen fish...


Em's big catch...




Hike up to Mowhawk lake...

Don't go chasin' water falls...

Shrooms!

Emalie and Rebecca making snow angels

Rocks!

Emalie's Cutthroat

Snow in August?

Hopefully doing some fishing this weekend.

Been reading a great book about the history of Area 51 by Annie Jacobsen, It is a very interesting historical account of many of our nations key moments of the last 60 years and the development of "Black Projects"

Good summer read.