Hike with the hound.

Boys Night Out and About

 Beau and I went north to Odds to celebrate Scott's birthday and to play a little nondominant hand ping-pong.

 Clean your ears out and vote,  Donnie!

 Back down river to see the Fatmen B-ballers down at the Legion

 We walked the parimeter with the hounds 

 Then Beau ran.

Spike! Dead head.

Snow Day 2020

An ice storm came through last night.  I started the morning off with a two hour delay and then it changed to NO SCHOOL.  St after cleaning the basement the dogs and I did alittle hike.

Jace to the rescue. The big O put his chains on the truck so we to a slow noisy drive out to the farm to feed the cats. 

We heated up the shop 

and played some ping pong

as long as we were in the neighborhood we decided to wet a line

I hit the upper end an Jace hit the lower stretch.  Two each. All rainbows that's not to say I didn't have a few other strikes that I didn't hook.  All and all a pretty good snow day :)

Oh, What A Night!

 1 - 9 - 20   55* F

 After school I fed the cats and went for a walk

 The prairie was beautiful at sun set.

 I wet a line and on the first cast I hooked in to this beautiful brown!

 I was pretty excited and I was in a rush to get this fish back into the stream unharmed.

My PB 20+" Brown....WoW what a rush!

 It took me a while to calm down and the next cast I caught the nice brown

The temps were still nice and I had a little bit of sun light so I hit one more pool and I caught a rainbow.  

Time to call it a night.

More Stream time with brother Steve.

 Steve came over for a day on the stream before I have to head back to school for the second semester.

 Getting out and seeing beautiful stretches of stream like this makes up for the times when I'm on the stream and I don't catch any fish.

 Well, that was the case today,  no fish oh and no mustasche.   

It didn't seem to bother Steve either.

Day Two Of The New Year.

 Jimmy and I checked in on the cats

 Then we hit rolly

 And we each caught a nice brown to start the year off on the right foot

We did a little hike down on the  public land and I found this buck in a feeder stream.

A new project to clear the banks of the stream  Phase II

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