June 22 & June 24.

[taxidermist]

22nd I took my brother, wife and son down to the river. We did very well mostly on silver spinners and crank baits, we caught several undersized browns and one almost keeper Cutthroat. Water was up a bit but did not slow downt he bite.

Brother who lives in Las Vegas had a great time, he is not use to fishing plus as a kid all dad could do was yell at him when they fished so his interest in fishing is not strong. While catching fish he made the comment, "Man I can see why you like to fish, you never know how big or even if you will hook the fish."

Yesterday wife, son and I hit the river again, wow we were caught out in the torrential downpours and wind. Had to pull the boat out and empty the water!

Fishing was a bit slower than Friday, but darn good for size. Ife was at the top of her game she was out fishing us by a third. She was fishing from the middle of the boat.

The rain triggered serious fog, fog so heavy that even in areas we fish weekly I managed to hit a log thats been there for years. Funny things is I know that section of the river pretty well but man the fog was heavy and that may have also triggered the larger fish to be less cautious about biting.

Late in the day after the fog was lifting, my son had a nice brown on his ultralight, he was not gaining anything on the fish as he was fighting the fish one of the asshole guides ran over my sons line, severing the line of course. (((You bet I have filed a complaint about the asshole.))) Funnier ont the trip later is ahole guide and his clients were watching as my son landed a brown that scaled almost 3 lbs, then caught a huge sucker on the next cast.

We could hear the client asking "What are they using?" Well the sucker was far enough away his client thought it was a brown trout and my son said guess we should turn this brown loose.

Later at the ramp the client wanted to know what we were using, my son looked at him and said "Ask you deadhead guide!"

John