Baja1ab
04-27-2015, 09:48 PM
Headed up Friday mid-day w the wife and kids to Tinnemaha Campground. The back story is my wife's family has been going for years - decades actually. Her grandfather was the organizer of this annual tradition and he unfortunately passed around this time last year. This year we made the trek and met her family there to enjoy the creek, fish and also to install a memorial bench that the family had made (and Inyo County blessed).
Woke at 5 to hit the creek. Being the known family "diehard" fisherman I had 5 kids under the age of 10 on my coattails, lol. I spent most of the morning untangling, retying and baiting hooks, lol. There's lots of brush, trees and other things for the little ones to get into.
With no fish to show for our efforts, I finally had the last one toss in the towel around 9:30am and it was time for me to figure this thing out...and I did. I caught a couple on Powerbait and salmon eggs but the one-two punch of the day was Lip Ripperz Floating Dooies in orange/white and yellow/white fly lined on a light hook and under brush and other shadowy areas. I completed my limit and proceeded back to camp, grabbed the kids and put them all on fish for the rest of the day. It was a ton of fun!
Around 4pm the wind was just HOWLING and the wife gave me the look and said "do you want to go"? (You know the look, lol) I told her it was up to her. After the 3rd time her asking, I knew she was done so we pack it in and headed back to the IE. Although our trip was cut short a good time was had by all!
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Woke at 5 to hit the creek. Being the known family "diehard" fisherman I had 5 kids under the age of 10 on my coattails, lol. I spent most of the morning untangling, retying and baiting hooks, lol. There's lots of brush, trees and other things for the little ones to get into.
With no fish to show for our efforts, I finally had the last one toss in the towel around 9:30am and it was time for me to figure this thing out...and I did. I caught a couple on Powerbait and salmon eggs but the one-two punch of the day was Lip Ripperz Floating Dooies in orange/white and yellow/white fly lined on a light hook and under brush and other shadowy areas. I completed my limit and proceeded back to camp, grabbed the kids and put them all on fish for the rest of the day. It was a ton of fun!
Around 4pm the wind was just HOWLING and the wife gave me the look and said "do you want to go"? (You know the look, lol) I told her it was up to her. After the 3rd time her asking, I knew she was done so we pack it in and headed back to the IE. Although our trip was cut short a good time was had by all!
http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee425/baja1ab/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_5801_zps97b358c0.jpg
http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee425/baja1ab/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_5798_zps1673e7ed.jpg
http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee425/baja1ab/Mobile%20Uploads/FullSizeRender_zps11568dcf.jpg
http://i1227.photobucket.com/albums/ee425/baja1ab/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_5802_zpsfa85e3c0.jpg
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