Fishing

Fishing

The Post with the Most Hits

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I have been seriously looking at the why I should keep this blog or why should I blog thoughts lately. It is fun to go back and read some of my old posts.  Since this blog started in 2005 my ideals and beliefs have certainly changed.  My first post is here.  I lost some post when the database went wonky and I started the blog thing again so the posts prior to 2005 are lost in cyber space. I think this is the first post where I mentioned multiple sclerosis ?


Today’s Post

Bifurcate In The Road post s  have been photography and deciding what camera to purchase.    I photographed the bicycle race and ended up with this blog being featured in the Sacramento Bee.  Unfortunately the photos were not included because they needed room for a big pic of a UFO or something. But it was exciting just the same to see my blog in the paper!  The post with the most hits in one day this blog as ever had happened because I attended a photowalk and a couple of my photos were linked to here (even if kmilyun is spelled wrong).   The power of links!

Then there was the motorcycle.  Here is what I thought about my first HOG meeting (and a bit at the end about Arco arena – bye bye kings).  And of course the bye bye motorcycle post.

Fishing! I still love to go Bass fishing but the heat usually gets to me. We do get out once in awhile with either Brandon or our friend Ronny.  Fishing is about friends and family and lots of worms sometimes.  Then there are the boats. Rubber and aluminum.  I still have the fishing boat but I need to replace the water pump propeller so I can cough- cough sale it  🙁 . I now own too many bass poles and have enough lures and plastic worms that I pass them out to friends. The plastics not the lures (you can never have a big enough selection).

I have gone off on tangents about computers, beans, puzzles,  dogs, bicycling,  well lots of things.  This blog really has no point, no one set subject matter, it has always been post about whatever floats into my pee sized brain mind.  Perhaps a blog with no clear cut purpose.  Having a clear cut purpose is the rage nowdays. With social media taking a forefront if a blog does not have ONE major purpose/theme it gets lost in the land of google hits.

Here is the most  popular post – the post with most hits everyday – HERE.

Well if you have browsed the posts let me know which one is your favorite post ?

North to Shasta Lake

<—– Finally a tomato turned red! It was like watching a pot waiting for it to boil. My lemon cucumber is taking over the planter even though I keep cutting it back. We are getting about three to five a day now so I might have to start sharing. The peppers are producing well also.

My ear is still sore but it is nice to have it back in one piece.

We spent this past weekend visiting our friend Ronny. Brandon drove over from Nevada and KRP, Brandon and I headed up I5. I did the driving that way hunting down dinner was their problem hee hee. Besides it a tradition that Ronny plays pyro with the barbecue.

I put a video together quickly so it is not the greatest but hey it is done. The little cheap video camera does not have stabilization so it is hard for me to get steady footage – yeah yeah I know excuses, excuses. Along the same line, the fishing was terrible! KRP was at the dock and said that everyone coming in was complaining how dead it was. Apparently very few boats brought in any keepers so Ronny and Brandon’s fish count more LOL My largest was 1/4 shy of legal.

It was freakin hot by 10am Ronny asked if I wanted to go in and ding dong me said NO so about 11:45ish I gave in before I turned into a short circuited baked Jan. O yeah the floating toilets that I never have paid much mind are now on my list of awesome things. They even have rails around them making access fairly easy – must have been cause I did not fall in the lake. Usually we go out on Ronny’s dads boat but Mark and Nina gave Ronny their boat – way cool.

I still can not decide if I want to fix the water pump deal on my boat and practice practice in a parking lot backing up etc or if we should just sale it. If we were closer to Shasta it would be a definite keep it. We hate going to Folsom because fighting on the docks is common and the water fleas and music boats seem to relish swamping fishing boats.  Go figure. I am to chicken to do the river thing.

The weekends video:


First Fishing Trip

janslide (68)I guess it is all the crazy things going on but I have been going through all the old slides that my father has taken through the years. Then I noticed many folks seem to be reminiscing also so I figured I join in.

Here I be on my first real fishing trip.  We were at a cabin at Echo Lake and the pole you see there sort of ended up with the tip in the lake. I remember my dad getting it back out somehow and all was well.  It was really a special deal because my dad rented a row boat  one day  so we could fish out in the middle of the lake instead of from the shore.

My mom cooked the trout up for us and my brother and I felt ever so special having caught the dinner. And, yes we had to clean them ourselves. Not particularly a nifty thing but we were allowed to use a knife under my dads supervision – so it was worth it.

Those are my dads waders (and hat) I have on, you figure he is 6’4″ and I am only 5’5″ now. My brother and I loved to get into my dads shoes and stomp about it somehow made us feel larger and important LOL.

Lost in the years of photo weeding out are all my pictures of chipmunks that I spent hours luring in so I could take a picture of them with my little brownie camera.  I remember my mom not particularly thinking that attracting rodents was a good thing and my little brother kept scaring them away to make me mad.

On this trip we also hiked up to the top of Echo Summit. We had a picnic up there and complained all the way back down because we were two tired kids.