Johnsfolly

Check the Leaderboard buddy. Even though you two just keep catching trout, you're making good progress with your Utah adventures☺!

Congratulations for both of you two completing the Utah Slam, but all these cutthroats are starting to look the same. Can't wait to see something different, maybe a chub, a cisco, or a whitefish!

BH - You definitely have the better deal than the Mrs. ! Of course you keep her in flies, yard carp, and carnitas with lots of cilantro ! Maybe that's a fair trade if you throw in the dog.

Congrats! That is a great looking gar!

OTF - great photos of the Current. I haven't been to a couple of those spots. So that creates the yearn to explore those watersheds more fully. Thanks!

I find that creek fish tend to be far more aggressive. Maybe do the competition in a relatively small pool. I love it when fishing topwater and you see multiple wakes heading for your bait. Just got to keep telling yourself.. wait for the tug.. wait for the tug!

I picked up some body glove wading shoes at Academy. They cinch down nicely and keep out the sand and gravel. They would be good for short portages or getting out of a boat to fish a gravel bar. They don't have the soles for rough walking on coarse chunk rock.

I agree with BH and N9BOW that Ham gives more than he gets back. Always willing to put guys on fish. And I do politely disagree with Ham. He is the man on that water! Great post guys and a great day on the water!

Michaleen Flynn is one of my favorite characters "Easy Nooww! No Patty-fingers, if you please." "Me mouth is like a dry crust and the sun is that hot on me pate." "I- I think you have more sense than I have me-self." That was some real horse sense! Sir - Sir - Here's a good stick, to beat the lovely lady. I watched "A long voyage home" with John Wayne, Barry Fitzgerald, Ward Bond, Mildred Natwick (The Widow Tillane), and Arthur Shields (Reverand Playfair). Not a great or memorable movie, but a lot of Quiet Man actors.

Surprised that Ham didn't roll his eyes on this statement. No love for the "clicker" - The Horror!!!

BH - Still have one more cuttie for the slam to talk about, but I can't wait for you to let the "cat" out of the bag !

Marty - really tight quarters, spooky fish, but if it wasn't so hot waiting for them to "forget" that you are there, you could probably catch a few out of a couple of those little holes. A lot like some of the little holes that I have pulled out a new topminnow or darter or a spooky rainbow in Crane or Barren fork creek ! Great photos, but sorry to hear about the difficulties in keeping those fish healthy.

That's a great fish for a small creek! Congrats! Must have been a fight that you will remember for some time.

Again - Very nice cutthroats! Great job on finding the best place to fish for these guys. Seemed pretty cool to see the bike race. When we lived in PA the Tour de Trump (later changed to Tour de DuPont) bike race would go right past our apartment. With all of the motorcycles and support vehicles, it's amazing that the riders could get any fresh air. The last summer that we lived in Ireland we where driving on some out of the way highways and realized that we were in the middle of a road rally race! That was exciting.

Congrats on the first Colorado cutthroats! Sounds like you overcame difficult conditions but both of you scored. Great job! Can't wait for further installments.

Just make sure that you give her a shotgun or a pellet gun to pop a few balloons if she gets too high !

Flysmallie - really like the smallmouth fish face photo! Great trip photos! I always enjoy your photo essays!

Seemed like the perfect box lunch to the otters☺! Sorry about losing your walleye.

Now I had heard that S-Car go joke back in grade school before ever seeing Trading Places. That movie solidified my crush on Jamie Lee Curtis that started with Halloween 🎃! I didn't have any issues with her role in True Lies either☺!

We get a lot of ballooning that goes on around Columbia. During out first two years in Columbia we once had a balloon come down in our apartment complex. Jackie loved it since they used her to push out the air as they were folding up the balloon. She was only 4 or 5 at the time. We have been up to a height of 50 feet in a tethered balloon during a 4th of July event. Both of us have wanted to try a real balloon trip. One of the Africa trips that my dad did when he was actively marking off his bucket list was a balloon ride over the plains. I remember his photos of riding high over the wildebeest and girafffes. The cost has been too high for us to take a trip. If you guys can afford it or make friends with someone that has a balloon, go for it☺! Pretty certain it would be a blast.

My betterhalf has talked about ziplining for the last few years. So this year for her latest birthday (won't say how old she is, but only a single digit using Roman numerals and it's not C or M), we finally got her out to a zipline course in New Florence, MO (Eco Adventure Zipline). Of course Livie and I had to go along for support ! Since we are novice 'liners' we signed up for their Soaring Six course with the option to expand after the first four lines to the full ten line course. Just a nominal cost to do the full ten. So after thinking that we have this ziplining deal down we opted to go all in for the Treetop Flyer zipline adventure package. Their course traverses a couple of deep ravines. The one line goes over a 245 foot drop. We got up to speeds of 30 to 40 mph. Livie is a bit of a daredevil. So she fit right in. we even mentioned that she might have like a line that travelled through a flaming hoop! We had a great time! We may have to come back at the end of Sept for our 22nd anniversary. I'll post the videos we can get them in a format that I can link to this post.

Tonight wanted burgers. Mixed 85/15% chuck ground beef with garlic powder, montreal seasonings, dried basil, tablespoon or two of red wine and worchestershire sauce, raw egg, bread crumbs. cooked to medium then melted on the swiss cheese. When the cheese melted put it on a sesame seed bun with mayo, sliced onion, pickle, and tomato (one of the multicolored yellow and red heirlooms). No Pictures - sorry.

I never liked Blondie's attempt at rap with Rapture. "Cause the man from Mars stopped eatin' cars and eatin' bars. And now he only eats guitars, get up!" YIKES!

Mitch - I had forgotten about seeing this video. Thanks for Posting ?!??! Wasn't this song the basis for that animated film with Johnny Depp - Rango?

I saw a couple of basketball sized bryozoan colonies in little Dixie back in June.