Vssi Group

[Bill Babler]

Had a really fun loving group from VSSI Inc. at Lilleys' the last couple of days. Saturday night saw a huge trout fry with tator's, corn on the cob and lots of really fine fixin's.

Report from Friday evenng was Bob Klien, took hold of the show with Tony Wiedele. Both guides clients caught trout like they knew what they were doing. In completely different ways.

Tony like most of the rest of us is an upper lake rat and he worked the streight line sculpin jig and when the water started to flow, went with the suspending stick and really caught the Brown's. Great job.

Bob on the other hand took the ladie's and really put the hurtin on the fish in the bait area. I mean he had an excellent set of trout for the Saturday fish fry. Bob seems always to have a handle on the bait fishing,and he really proved it on Friday. Super job.

Both guide boats reported catching about 40 fish per boat in the last 3 hrs of the day. Not bad

The other 3 of us hung in there and we pretty much covered the fry so Saturday was mostly catch and release.

Tim Paige had a really good day on Saturday with lots of quality rainbows on crawlers in the bait area, and my boat got them going in the restricted area on midges drifted in the shade along the bluff bank.

I had a couple of very good fisherman and it allowed me to toss a dry fly a mite. Just flat super on the dry. Big, Big colored up bows along the bank.

A size 8 red stimulator was the key for me and the midges were a size 16 in the blood midge pattern that I tie.

About 1pm when the heat hit it was over for all. No wind and no breeze with quite a little bit of boat traffic took care of the rest of the day. It was nap time anyway after 2 days of fishing and we had to be refreshed for the picnic.

Phil and his staff were great and the pavillion is one of the nicest places you can ever have a gathering. Great breeze and the lake to look at while you cook and eat.

Many thanks to Curtis, Lisa, Phil and Jerry, for logistics. Tim Paige, and Becky Babler for the cooking and Melody Paige and Me for standing around and looking good. Her anyway.

What a place for a great time.

[Forsythian]

Bill, just a quick note to let you know I really enjoy reading your posts...

I guess there are some in your line of work who eventually take things for granted, but it seems that you really enjoy what you are doing, and it's clear you have a great level of appreciation and enthusiasm and respect for your peers and your clients. Keep at it!

[Phil Lilley]

Bill- you'll have to tell- or get Tim to- what you ate and how you fixed it. I wish I had stayed around to help....eat.

We had a great trip to KC visitng my daughter Sara and husband Josh. And yes we took in a Cards game and watched Albert hit another one over the wall. Funny to see Royals stadium full of red shirts.