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endLight
05-21-2007, 11:30 AM
Just had a weekend of camping and fishing at Sugarpine, outside of Foresthill, CA.
DFG had planted the week of May 7th, and the trout were crazy around sunset, jumping and hitting flies, but somehow I got skunked. No fish seemed to want what I was offering. But oh well. In the morning I was teaching my girlfriend how to fish (bad idea since i ain't catchin' anything.. i know...)
and I set her up with my good Berkeley pole and my Dad's old Mitchell reel that's about thirty years old but still works. Well wouldn't you know she's jabberin' away about gossip or whatnot and I point out that her rod tip is bent almost to the water and she should set the hook. She shrieks and starts haulin' it in, and I tell her to keep reeling... as an apparently NICE rainbow leaps out of the water fightin' and fussin'

Here are some pics of the first fish my girlfriend has ever caught:


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one_leg
05-21-2007, 11:38 AM
Tell Mr.s endLight One_Leg said "Congratulations on the 1st Fish."

Those old Mitchels are great reels and they will repair them for free
if anything goes wrong with them.

One_Leg
ghetto dad
05-21-2007, 12:02 PM
nice job!! did she eat the heart???
endLight
05-21-2007, 03:16 PM
Eat the Heart? I don't know that anyone does that anymore.. and I didn't think of it when I cleaned it for her. We did Barbecue it last night, though! The meat was incredibly pink, not whitish like a stocked trout...
Troutman65
05-21-2007, 05:46 PM
I never ate the heart of any fish. I am still catching them. So I don't belive that crap about eating the heart B.S.

Nice that your G/F hooked up a great trout for the first time !!!

Sure is one beautiful trout !!!!

thanks for the post.
ghetto dad
05-21-2007, 06:13 PM
I never ate the heart of any fish. I am still catching them. So I don't belive that crap about eating the heart B.S.

Nice that your G/F hooked up a great trout for the first time !!!

Sure is one beautiful trout !!!!

thanks for the post.

nice skirt, trout....
Troutman65
05-21-2007, 06:23 PM
Ghetto Dad ,

I Have learned from the error of my old ways.
Troutman65
05-21-2007, 06:25 PM
Troutman65 not Dumb Dumb Ghetto Dad