Melinda Finally Visits the Creek

I realized that in all the years of fishing "The Creek", my youngest daughter Melinda had never been fishing there. When we'd head up to Wenatchee to visit family, the choice was always between playing with cousins (those her age weren't that interested in fishing) or going to the creek. Cousins always won out. Well, we finally remedied that parenting deficiency. 

Melinda was back for a week to visit home and had planned a day up to Wenatchee to do the Enchantments through-hike with a friend (19 miles and a ton of elevation in one day), so I drove up to bring her home the day after her hike. We make plans to stop at the creek on the way home (Rob came along) and were able to find a few fish. She quickly learned why it's such a great place and a horrible place to fish (lots of willing trout but overgrown with grass and brushy trees).

Note the fish is in the process of releasing itself!

Funniest thing of the day was when Mel made a cast, missed the fish and ended up with her fly in the tree branch above. Rob took over on the power play and immediately did the same thing. I had my chance with the double power play, but promptly missed the fish and ended up with my fly in the same tree. All three of us with our flies in the tree and the fish laughing in the stream!

Happy fishing!

Another Happy Birthday

Tom and I got together for our annual birthday trip, a couple weeks early to fit schedules. Not quite as epic as last year, but still a good trip. Some big ones, some small ones, and of course the ones that got away. Mostly nymphs early, but moved to hoppers by later in the afternoon. I took pictures of every fish we got to the net (missed a couple), I'll let them tell the story this time, except for the rattlesnake that Tom didn't see in the trail and full out stepped on it. Heard the rattling, saw it flailing under his boot, and jumped back... We do wear rattlesnake chaps, which were almost put to the test. Needless to say, we paid a little closer attention to the trail after that.