Big Fishin'

With Josh's time in Wyoming winding down and no new snow within easy reach, we again turned our attention to the rivers. We got out for a few hours after work last Friday and found some great fish. There were huge rainbows and cuttbows on redds, with various fish eager to take a well-placed egg pattern. Since our camera was still MIA, we were left with Josh's camera-phone for the heavy lifting.

Here I am trying out my new hat. It's a thing of beauty (the hat, that is). The Wife scored it from some of the locals. Not only does it sport the old TU logo, but it's mesh, has a rope across the bill and has cruise-ship-captain style gold holly leaves on the bill. Amazing. I've been told I look like my dad must have in the 1970's...

Later on I grabbed a hold of this toad:While I caught nice fish, Josh got the big one of the day:The fishing was so good we came back the next day, and the day after that. We caught several great rainbow/cutthroat hybrids fishing riffles with small egg patterns. I'm not sure I have ever caught as many large fish outside of Alaska.

After our last day of fishing the weather turned and Lander received about 5 inches of snow. Josh's flight out of Riverton was canceled, forcing him to spend an extra night here before heading out today. Between the epic skiing conditions a couple weeks ago and the huge fish this past weekend, I suppose we got after it pretty good while Josh was here.