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With some trigger-happy folks, yes.

Not That kinda governor, silly😀

Hey, I’ll occasionally use a Wooly Bugger, so I’m outta the closet.

For those that don’t know, that ^ means pasta with egg sauce and pancetta is illegal.

Those are not fly fishermen turning their noses up at you, those are snobs who happen to be fly fishing.

Sorry anglers. I couldn’t help myself.

Delete them yourself, that’s what a guy’s gotta do. Audience reached, point made, nobody’s mind changed, no friends made or lost. Back to banking!

What’s a guy got to do to get a post deleted around here???😀 Nevermind-I think I know. Stay tuned!!

Check your phone for the 7 words you can’t say😀

Summertime! Cleaned the bird poop off the table and set up this delicious lunch. Sweatin’ and swattin’ and swattin’ and sweatin’. Back inside we went!

I don’t know if this would work with fish, but we really like this shrimp taco recipe Shrimp Tacos Ingredients Marinade 1/4 cup canola oil 1/2 teaspoon chipotle powder 1 teaspoon ancho chili powder 1 teaspoon garlic powder 1 teaspoon salt Sauce 1/2 cup mayonnaise 1 teaspoon Trappey’s Red Devil hot sauce 1/4 teaspoon chipotle powder Salsa 1 mango, diced 2 teaspoons minced jalapeno 1 tablespoon minced red onion Juice of 1/2 lime Sugar if needed 1 pound peeled, deveined shrimp 6 medium-sized flour tortillas Directions 1. Combine the marinade ingredients. Marinade shrimp for 1/2 hour at room temperature. 2. Combine sauce ingredients and set aside. 3. Briefly heat flour tortillas on grill to warm and slightly char. 4. Remove shrimp from marinade. Grill shrimp until just cooked through.

Excellent post, @WestCentralFisher! Well-written too! Thanks.

Wonderful trip report! Congrats on a great trip making memories with the family You got into some nice fish too! Silverthorn is an interesting experience: Drop off the shoppers, go do some fishing, everyone’s happy!!

Sounds like fun! We love the area, though we’ve never done it in the summer. Sounds like that was a good thing!

I can’t estimate size with any certainty but maybe you can judge by the pic. That’s a typical suburban curb behind it. Maybe 14 to 18 inches?

That’s a good point about the legs. Thanks.

Service to others is a good thing, and your granddaughter is to be commended. It takes a good heart, commitment and effort to serve. More than most are willing to do.

Alright gentlemen…Help me with this one. Turned the corner at the end of my street and this fellow was just sitting there. I stopped, thinking, ‘Cool, a Cooper’s Hawk! I never have seen one up close.’ Why he stayed there looking at me, I don’t know. I rolled down the window and took a pic. As I got to looking at it I thought the color was wrong. Cooper’s should be more of a buff color. Anyhoo, he sat there longer than I thought he should, then he flew up into a nearby tree. I never saw anything he may have been eating, so I’m kinda puzzled.

We did a Mediterranean food themed cooking class with my daughter and future son in law over the weekend. We’ve done several of these and they’re always fun. We did hummus, tzatziki, kafta kabobs, dolmathes and a Greek salad. The dolamthes were onion, rice and some seasonings. Not that great, honestly. The ones we make at home are a meat and rice combo and much better. We’ve never made hummus before but will in the future. It was delicious. Kabobs were overcooked (by them) but would have been good otherwise.

I always try to use natural light whenever possible, hence the deck pics. Photography is about the light!

That's crazy enough it just might work!

Bourbon brown sugar glazed salmon with pecan crust. The missus did a good job with this.

As long as we're talking about MY trip now I'll share a little excitement I had. We were staying in Breckenridge and I had gone to the edge of town to fish the Blue River a little. I parked and was walking up to the stream kinda looking down and not really paying attention to my surroundings. I heard someone to my right say, 'Look out'. Not in an urgent way, but pretty calmly. I looked up and there was a momma and baby moose in front of me. Maybe about 50 fifty feet? I stopped and started to retreat a bit. Momma didn't seem to be too worried, but I don't have a lot of moose-reading experience. I felt comfortable enough with my situation and her demeanor that I snapped a phone pic. Here it is, cropped some so they look much closer than they really were.

Sounds like a fun trip. We were in that area back in 2017. Did the raft thing on the Arkansas near Leadville. I don’t know what class rapids we did, but it was right at pucker level for us.