Easter Weakend...

I have been 'talking' to this guy, Don, on some of the fishing Internet forums for months. He is the moderator for one of them and we have become friends working on all sorts of fishing dilemmas and issues. He lives up north in Idaho Falls and spends about 1/2 of his time fishing. Besides fishing, he has a kitchen cabinet business and designs kitchens and is a gourmet chef. Anyway, he is one of few folks I know that knows more about fishing than I think I do...

So, after many aborted attempts for various reasons, he came down this Saturday to do some Big Sturgeon fishing with me at my favorite place, DaHole, in Bliss. He got down there about 6:30am and I met him and we went down to fish. And we fished all day until about 4pm. It was a great day and we had a lot of time to chat and tell fishing stories and work on details about fishing. And, after spending a full day and tons of fishing gear and bait, we ended up with him catching the only fish - a 9 foot Sturgeon. See it in the picture below:



Well, did I say 'feet', I meant inches... And, did I say Sturgeon, I meant Squaw fish... But, I was right in that being the only fish caught all day.

Actually, I didn't write that fish story. It was given to me by the resident DaHole fishing story writer/editor, which I have pictured below as he is working on another story:






I had to walk past him to get to the cars and I was caring a coat and a couple of fleeces and some other stuff and he got up and was checking me out reeel close. I was starting to feel like those guys in Italy before the big race... Luckily, he didn't come after me - I guess he was working on a story deadline or something...

Then, after all that fun, I came home and Pam had cooked all day making this great prime rib roast and all the trimmings. Her sister Roberta and husband Vic were here and we all had a great dinner. After that, I felt like I had been ridden hard and put away wet from all the fishing. It takes a lot of energy to cast those big sturgeon rigs and I must have done it at least 50 times during the day. I was pretty worn out.

Then on Easter Sunday, I got up early and did my yoga so I could move after all the fishing. We decided to go to the early services and get to this "Easter Special Las Vegas Style Buffet Brunch" at a local events center. I think what makes it a "Las Vegas" style rather than a "Normal Ho" style was this really cute ice sculpture on the bread table. Anyway, it was a great meal and was only $ 14.45 each. It was open from 9am until 2pm, and we got there about 10:30am and had to wait for a place at the trough. We got this really cute 2 person booth and it was all good. We were home, prone and groaning before noon. It was a short but good Easter Day here in DaHo...