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Monday, July 28, 2008
Fly Fishing Trip
Angelina, my sister, invited me on a fly fishing trip to the Green River in Flaming Gorge National Park. It was so amazing and beautiful!! We went on a boat down the river and our guide, Darren, gave us instructions on where to cast our line, when to knead it, when to let out line, etc. It was soooo amazing!!
The picture of me on the boat really is a picture of both my sister and I, however it keeps cutting my sister off. Anyhow, she has this really great smile (a totally fake one) because she wanted to get going and catch a zillion fish, while people wanted to take pictures. It really is a great shot. =)
The picture with me and the fish is such a funny picture because when I first went fishing in Kelseyville, CA and took a picture with it, it looks very similar to this one.
It was a great trip, my dad caught the biggest fish, I believe it was over 24 inches. My sister caught some big ones...and well...I had caught a big one, but being the inexperienced fisherwoman that I am, when I should have let the beast "run" up river, I didn't and it snapped the sucker off! It took the fly and and ripped my line! It was a big beautiful Brown. I don't know how big it was, but I imagine it was probably comparable to my dad's.
The whole experience of fly fishing on the boat was great!! At first I was really nervous because the FIRST time I cast a fly fishing pole I caught my mom's leg. YIKES! I thought I would hurt someone since we were on a 3 person boat, but shockingly my sister, the pro fisher, was the first to catch anyone--me!! She caught me in the thigh, but later I got her back by accidentally hooking her life jacket. YIKES!
The fishing part of the trip was amazing! I got the hang of casting and could eventually aim my line wherever Darren told me to throw it and I got soo many bites!! I also missed a lot (didn't set them soon enough). I think the fish were at 45 and I was at 23. 45 vs. 23....not bad for a first timer! We didn't keep them though, it was catch and release. It was so much fun, as soon as my fly hit the water it seems like they were biting! And I had on my polarized lenses, so I would see the whole thing! When they would just look at the fly it would drive me crazy!! I was thinking, 'Just bite it already!!'
When I wasn't fishing, my mom and I were hanging out at the Spring Creek Ranch Bed and Breakfast. We hiked around, enjoyed the rain, watched a fire start and end, fed the horses, read, talked, and ate a ton. It was so much fun and so RELAXING!
Anyhow, if you haven't tried fly fishing, you really should. It is AMAZING!!!
The picture of me on the boat really is a picture of both my sister and I, however it keeps cutting my sister off. Anyhow, she has this really great smile (a totally fake one) because she wanted to get going and catch a zillion fish, while people wanted to take pictures. It really is a great shot. =)
The picture with me and the fish is such a funny picture because when I first went fishing in Kelseyville, CA and took a picture with it, it looks very similar to this one.
It was a great trip, my dad caught the biggest fish, I believe it was over 24 inches. My sister caught some big ones...and well...I had caught a big one, but being the inexperienced fisherwoman that I am, when I should have let the beast "run" up river, I didn't and it snapped the sucker off! It took the fly and and ripped my line! It was a big beautiful Brown. I don't know how big it was, but I imagine it was probably comparable to my dad's.
The whole experience of fly fishing on the boat was great!! At first I was really nervous because the FIRST time I cast a fly fishing pole I caught my mom's leg. YIKES! I thought I would hurt someone since we were on a 3 person boat, but shockingly my sister, the pro fisher, was the first to catch anyone--me!! She caught me in the thigh, but later I got her back by accidentally hooking her life jacket. YIKES!
The fishing part of the trip was amazing! I got the hang of casting and could eventually aim my line wherever Darren told me to throw it and I got soo many bites!! I also missed a lot (didn't set them soon enough). I think the fish were at 45 and I was at 23. 45 vs. 23....not bad for a first timer! We didn't keep them though, it was catch and release. It was so much fun, as soon as my fly hit the water it seems like they were biting! And I had on my polarized lenses, so I would see the whole thing! When they would just look at the fly it would drive me crazy!! I was thinking, 'Just bite it already!!'
When I wasn't fishing, my mom and I were hanging out at the Spring Creek Ranch Bed and Breakfast. We hiked around, enjoyed the rain, watched a fire start and end, fed the horses, read, talked, and ate a ton. It was so much fun and so RELAXING!
Anyhow, if you haven't tried fly fishing, you really should. It is AMAZING!!!
Saturday, July 19, 2008
What a Day...
Life without Daniel is getting too boring to handle. Today I was going to go to Las Vegas with Eric and Amanda to do some shopping, etc. They decided they wanted to watch Dark Knight while they were there too, so now I'm not going because I told Daniel I'd watch it with him when I go to Elko...So instead I woke-up, went running with Simba, returned home and vacuumed the downstairs for a few hours, cleaned the kitchen, ate a few cookies, stained one layer of the color I didn't want onto the dresser I spent two days sanding, and now I'm sitting here...being bored and disappointed about the stupid dresser. SO NOT FAIR.
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Fishing on the Green River
My first time fly fishing!
Fly Fishing at Flaming Gorge National Park
We just got on the boat and mom took a picture of us. Ang looks so happy! =)
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He was so small! Now he's like 110 lbs.!!
Talented Simba
He is so talented he can balance a turtle on his nose!
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The grey one is the one I'm dog-sitting.
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Daniel and his sexy car
