Saturday, May 22, 2010

An overnighter

Josh took off on Monday, but not before getting to spend another couple days on the river.  With the truck packed full of all the car-camping essentials, we motored north in search of a few more rainbow.  The fishing was a bit slow--forcing us to change tactics a bit and work some different flies.  We could see numerous juvenile salmon in the shallows and a few arctic terns splashing down into the water so I'm guessing the rainbows were full of smolts and not very hungry.  I managed to hook into one decent rainbow, giving Karta an up-close-and-personal view of the fight.  Of course, I also lost the fish before giving her an up-close-and-personal sniff of the fish.
One of the wonderful things about car camping is that you can bring a ton of stuff.  By this picture you'd think we brought the hot chocolate . . .
. . . but it's something far more important:
A couple pudgy pies, some baked potatoes and a few sausages on a stick later, our bellies were full and we settled in for some late night sun by the fire.

After a lazy morning, we packed up and drove on a bit farther north to another of our favorite haunts.  It's hard to tell from the picture, but this fish seemed to have some cutthroat in it.

And The Wife, who may need a new set of waders:

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

A leak in the waders is one thing, but a hole up high on the leg is another thing entirely. Those waders might have to be replaced soon...no waiting for her birthday!
Cheers,
OR Mom

Austin said...

Yeah, it's getting pretty dire in the wader department. I've since dunked the waders in aquaseal, but probably just need to replace them.

Sam said...

Those waders are lookin like the leak like mine.
Looks like a great trip, nonetheless. Pass on to Josh that it was great meetin' and fishin' with him!
sam

Anonymous said...

Austin:

GREAT website!! Lots of luck up North!!

Phil Pister

Austin said...

Hi Phil, glad you found it!