Posted pics on Facebook, but if it's not in the blog, it's not official. And I can share more detail here. September was free from work travel, so I took advantage of a Saturday to take the girls out fishing. We headed to the Tucannon River for some fall fishing. It's a pretty little river, generally with lots of fish. Sometimes you find them mostly small (4" to 7"), sometimes decent sized (8" to 12"). Today we found a mix. Pretty much all the action on psycho green under an indicator. I tried the stimulator as there are October caddis around this time of year, but pretty much all the action was on the nymph.
Once the girls were set up, I just pointed them to the water and they caught the fish. In one wide stretch, we were all three fishing side by side and catching them. We all caught plenty.
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| Jess fishing one channel where the river split |
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| Melinda fishing the hole on the other half of the river |
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| Melinda lands the big fish of the day. I was just upstream when I heard an excited exclamation as she was surprised by this larger fish. A good surprise. |
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| Jessica is not far behind in size. She was fishing the seam along the far bank, and doing it well |
After a little more than a couple hours, the girls said they were hungry (don't know what that has to do with anything - I can be hungry and still fish for 12 hours....), but since I do want them to go fishing with me again, we headed back to Dayton and Ray's Drive-in, the traditional stopping place since Jessica was 2 yrs old. After burgers and fries and other good stuff, I suggested that we stop by the Touchet River just a few blocks away. The girls were happy to stay in the car and knit or play games on my phone, while I fished a familiar stretch from the footbridge to below the dam. The fish were very willing, about 40 or so in the hour I fished, ranging from a little larger than fry up to about 9". Both the stimulator and the psycho prince were well received.
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| Touchet trout |
A very nice day with the girls.
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