First run of the boat, Deer Creek

This morning we were going to hit it early, on the road by 5 am, we were headed to Electric Lake. 6:30 the eyes popped open, Deer Creek it is...lol. We got on the lake around 8. The boat started up on the 2nd pull, Parker pulled it to the dock and I parked the truck. We picked a new tour of the lake today we went south of the ramp and trolled the roadside bank. Parker got the first couple hits running jack-o-diamonds, then we seen a boat pulling in a couple quickly and they were running J-O-D's as well. Parker hooked up the first fish of the boating season, a nice Rainbow fun to catch it jumped and played for a couple minutes. I quickly re-rigged to J-O-D's as well had a few hits and Parker brought in another he was quite pleased with himself by now....lol. We trolled back and forth found the hot spot then everyone pulled in around us and we pulled out for a minute to let them all go by, it was all good, one of the little kids on the other boat pulled a nice Bow in, he was ecstatic, it was fun watching and hearing his excitement. I finally got one to take the hook, they were short hitting me most of the morning, but this one took in to the gills, as you can see in the pic. Parker pulled another and was really ribbing me then, we had a blast. We continued to run the route and got hits, got our worms stripped, then on the last pass I got hit and lost the entire pop gear rig, must have been a nice one to break off 18 lb lead core line....ya I know, no pic no fish...lol. We took off blew the carbon out of the engine back to the dock. With intentions of going later this evening but other plans came into play. We headed home, seen Mom and Dad for minute went home and cooked them up for lunch around 2pm. Good first outing for the season. Monday another adventure.....Yuba, Currant Creek, ??? we'll have to see where the mule takes us. Until then enjoy the pics, sorry about my fish he has added colors.

Antelope Island

Went with our Honors Biology class on a field trip to Antelope Island. The class took off Wed. Morning and went to the Farmington Bay wildlife park and then did a service project for the DNR and removed Dyers Woad a noxious weed that will take over the area if not taken out. They then went to Antelope Island and went on a tour with a DNR ranger around the Island where I met up with them after spending the morning at school. We set camp at White Rocks Group Campground a remote area on the West bank. We had hobo dinners and I made cobbler in the D.O. the kids ate it I don't know how it really was no one said anything....(I used pears on accident), but they cleaned the pot. That evening 2 members of the Ogden Astronomical Club came and set up their telescopes for us. They were very nice scopes on home made with a 16" reflector and the other with a 12" reflector. The 12" was all computerized and tracked the object you were looking at. We looked at Saturn through both and it was amazing. The 12" you could see 5 of it's moons it was awesome they stayed with us until 11 pm and then had to go they both had 4 am wake up calls for work. We were very appreciative of their time and equipment.



We woke up and got breakfast. We woke up with visitors around the camp.

Spent the night in my new tent it was nice and comfy. Lots of room and up off the ground.



We broke camp after Janniece Leis made us French Toast yummy!




The kids went on a hike on Lakeside Trail and met up with us at Bridger Bay campground where they did a little more work on the Dyers Woad weed. I was on lunch detail which meant I went to town and picked up Subway for them. After lunch was play time in the lake, some of the kids had never been there. Then they met up with a biologist from Westminster College and learned about the Brine Shrimp in the lake. Bird logs were kept by everyone and reflection notes were written. Mine was about the amount of bugs!!! Great trip and fun thanks folks for letting me go.

Highway 31 tour and then some...

We took off for Fairview canyon to see what was a available. When we got to the top it still has plenty of snow. All the lake are still pretty well capped but I bet by the end of this week they will be pretty well open. Electric was very near breaking up, Cleveland actually had some open on the banks and some folks were giving it a shot. I don't know the lake just north of Cleveland but it was capped. We headed south down the canyon tried the stream for a while needed our fly rods for the upper stretch where you could actually see them, we just watched and thought DUMBA**** should of packed the flies. Anyhow ended up on Huntington Res. fished for probably 3-4 hours with no luck threw everything at them. A guy in a boat pulled up close and asked if we had had any luck? Nope. He then told us he hadn't seen a fish on his finder all the way around the res. but said the water was 57*. We fished for a short time more and figured we had reached maximum insanity....you know when you do the same again and again hoping hoping for different result.....yep we had maxed it out. We took off went back up 31 and turned off onto 264 and went to Scofield, all the small lakes and ponds were still capped Fairview Lakes were still capped as well as being snowed in yet, seen the upper end of Electric and seen a little open water there and again a few hardy souls had walked into it and were fishing the 20' hole at the creek. Went by Scofield the wind was whipping pretty good seen a few out trying their best we kept going. No fish, good idea when water will be open now, so a half way productive day.