My girl and I bailed out for four days and headed to the mountains...found a secret squirrel spot to set up camp for a few days, nearest neighbors were over a mile away.

Managed to squeeze in one three hour fishing session, and it was pretty darned successful for such a short amount of time...got a couple of big Dollies/Bull Troots, two summer Chinook, one wild summer run, and a handful of rainbows, cutthroat, and a whitefish.

A few pics...

Home for four days...







My Camp Kitchen with Camp Cook





A few views of our back yard, and down the river a little ways...

Backyard





A bit downriver...





And...a couple fishies that managed to stick around long enough for some photos...

A beautiful spring/summer Chinook hen, very spunky!



And a 28" Dolly Varden/Bull Trout with a huge kype...this fish was easily 9 pounds, mebbe a bit more...



Found these tasty little buggers while out on a stroll...



They were sauteed up with dinner about an hour after finding their way into my hands

We were also happy to find that our camping zone, besides being far from anyone or anything else, was well stocked with both red and blue huckleberries, many of which made it into a fantastic cast iron skillet cornbread that my girl whipped up for breakfast on Saturday morning.

All in all...best four days I've spent in quite a while. The first couple of days the alarm went off at 5am for me to get up and fish...didn't even bother with the snooze button, just shut the damn thing right off and went back to bed. Didn't even bother setting it at all the last couple of days...having too much fun hanging out around camp with my girl to go off fishing by myself for more than the one short jaunt I did.

Got a rock stuck in one of my tires, and it developed a leak...but it happened on the way off the mountain on Sunday afternoon and stations with compressors were spread just enough to allow me to get all the way back to I-5 where got it fixed...no biggie.

Unfortunately while waiting to have it fixed I found out that someone had drained one of my accounts of a few thousand bucks by using it to buy clothes and perfume online...but hopefully the bank will follow thru and have that cleaned up in no time.

Not nearly bad enough stuff to even slightly mar how good a time we had

Fish on...

Todd