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

Iowa's First Day Hikes

A STEP BACK IN TIME

 An Eagle patroles this streatch of stream, feeding a trout.

 I hope he had better luck than I did.

 But with the temps pushing the 60* make, who could complain

 I didn't think these pictures would turnip but here they are

 The old ping pong table in Chappy land hasn't been used in a while

 and the collage of holloween pictures has fallen to the floor

Sasquach, the hide and seek champion.

MEMBERSHIP HAS IT'S PRIVILEGES

 December 29th and Susie is still on the mend.  So I had to go to the membership party at Jubecks solo.

 Several times a year Jubecks has a membership party for it's patrons and todays party featured Southern style foods preped by Chefs Steve and Miles

 The crew at Dan's table looks happy the see the nitrogen made chocolate ice cream

 It paired well with the Stout

I popped next door to Oolongs to grab some food for this evening

 and viola Pho to Go!

Phytophotodermatitis

 While making margaritas in Phoenix, Susie a reaction to the lime juice and exposure to what little sun we had.  So I had to make a run to the store.

Eventhough the weather was not all that nice, 37* and rainy

I managed to catch a trout at my first stop. 

 By the time I got to the second stream the rain came down even harder

 and fog set in.

Three slips, two lures found along the stream and one trout later, I made back home to doctor the burn.