Oliver's Visit - Part One...

Oliver arrived in Boise without problems and after Pam and he hooked up, they drove home. He saw the large Fireworks factory along the way and was impressed. My pool team placed 2nd in the tournament. It wasn't our best showing, but we did end up in first place as a team and Steve and I did end up tied for first place in the individual standings for the league.

Then, we had dinner and planned our first day of fishing. We got up early to be sure to get 'the spot' at Riley Creek. I woke up Oliver with my usual wake up line - "Hey, get up, someone is catching our fish!". It always works...

So, off we went, stopping at McDonalds for breakfast. We got there before anybody else and got the spot. We rigged up for some Sturgeon fishing and Oliver started getting his waders and float tube all setup. They we caught a nice Sturgeon which Oliver fought and landed. It was a nice one about 3 1/2 feet long an weighed about 30 lbs. He did a good job and was pretty excited since that was the biggest fish he had ever caught.

Then, he went tubing and wading with his fly outfit. He hooked a large golden trout on his fly outfit. As he was fighting it, which is a challenge on a fly rod, the rod couldn't take it and snapped off the tip. He was still able to land the fish with the broken rod. See the picture below...



After that, we hung up fishing and went to a local restaurant and had alligator and Sturgeon for lunch.

Then we went to another favorite fishing spot, Billingsly Creek, to check it out and look at all the fish. We didn't fish, since Oliver's rod was busted and it was getting hot and late.

Then, we went to Sportsman's Warehouse to get Oliver a new, and better, rod and other needed fishing stuff.

Then yesterday, We took off up north for some world class trout fly fishing. We checked out a lot of spots and ended up wading Silver Creek. It was a beautiful place and there were lots of good sized trout swimming all around. Its one of those types of places that has lots of bugs, like a wetlands, and the 'hatch de jour' is what the fish are eating - and we didn't have the knowledge or flys to do any good, but it sure was big fun. That was my first time wading and was pretty thrilling.

Then, last night, we had this amazing wind storm here at DaHouse. It was the worst one I have ever seen here. Oliver was impressed. It blew everything that wasn't tied down, away and took some shingles off of the roof. Today, Oliver and I have to find all the lawn furniture and bring it back. Then, after the big wind storm, we had to clean out all the dried bushes from the front of the house that filled it up. After that, the power went off and we had to use candles and flashlights. It was quite a storm, but only lasted about 10 minutes or so.

Well, its getting late and is time to go do my 'famous' wakeup line...