Tuesday evening I picked up Parker and Jordan and headed for Jordanelle. Jordan had just returned from his 2 year mission serving in Argentina. As we drove to the lake and stopping to get needed supplies for the evening Parker and Jordan shared stories of their experiences and plans for the future. Jordan working on his firefighter certifications and Parker starting his PhD at BYU this fall. Both with great ambition and enthusiasm, it was fun to listen and hear their thoughts and plans. We arrived at the lake unloaded the boat and I parked I returned to the dock and the boat wasn't running.
Strange Parker always has it ready to go, we tried to start it a couple times, and Parker said “I think we are out of gas!” I was thinking no way, but then he said "Yeah it was running then just sputtered out, I didn't turn it off." So he look in the tank and sure enough out of gas! I was frustrated because I didn't even think it possible we usually run a tank all summer, but this summer we have been to a couple different lakes and making runs to find the fish and hadn't checked the gauge.
I just put the trolling motor out and we left the dock. Fishing was on the agenda and we were going to fish. Parker asked if the dock had a gas pump, I didn't know of one and we couldn't see one, so we continued to fish. We fished the marina bay for a couple passes and then cut across to the docks and started looking hard for a gas pump and finally hidden back in the very back of the docks we seen a pump. We went over asked how much a gallon, knowing it was going to be highway robbery but found out it was even worse $4.95/gallon I swallowed hard and gave them a $20 and just smiled. We got 4 gallons and left. We went around the point to our small boat launch pattern and within seconds Jordan caught the first fish of the evening.
We fish the pattern for about an hour fighting the wind and wakes, oh yeah it was blowing hard! Not getting any more hits we ventured down the west bank and found them. We had 5 in the boat within minutes all nice Rainbow trout. Jordan had 3 to the boat and lost them but he was happy to get the chance. We all had a great evening and caught some nice rainbow trout. We loaded up at night fall, cleaned the fish and headed for town. We stopped in Heber at the local hot spot the Dairy Keen and ate dinner. Hope you have a great adventure this week. Headed to the Uinta's this weekend and hope to have a fish tale or two to share.
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