A hike in Flyngby's Backyard
Took advantage of the Holiday when the whole family was off together for a day of hiking and stream fishing for trout. So my wife and I and our two boys met Steve (Flyngby) who was our fishing guide for the day at his home in the mouth of the Cyn about 1000. It was a late start but at least the canyon would be a little warmer. We messed around for a little while looking for Geo Caches with my oldest sons GPS and Steve's GPS around steves house. We finally started our hike up the canyon about 1130 for a day of CPR trout fishing!
Family Photo, from left to right are Anthony, Eddie, Rebecca and Aaron.
Steve leading the way!
The plan was to hike straight up the canyon about a mile a large pool that Steve knew would be holding fish and then work our way down the canyon.
When we arrived Anthony was the first to bait up and get a cast in. His cast went over a floating log and being a more experienced fisherman I told him he should reel in and cast again so he did not get stuck on the log. He proved me wrong with the first fish of the day.
Aaron was next!
And Anthony again.
Here is steve helping Anthony out on the opposite side of the pool from me and Aaron.
Me and Aaron on our side of the pool.
Aaron got this one on our side.
Then mom came over and joined the fun. You can see the dam in the background.
Steve and Anthony negotiating a rock face to get back over from their side.
Mom with another.
And another....it was non-stop action, every cast.
Mom was having fun!
While we were fishing at the start of the Rose Bowl, we heard a large roar coming down the canyon and all looked up to see a Stealth Bomber fly over pretty low, it was a cool sight but none of us thought about taking a picture as we were all in Aww. I did get this shot on his return trip with a bit more altitude.
I caught fish too!
Aarons last fish of the day.
Steve has more pictures of Anthony he will add. It was getting late and we wanted to beat the Rose Bowl traffic to the 210 so we started our hike back out. We ended up at that one pool all day.
The hike out.
A few pics of the canyon on the way down.
One the way down I stopped and looked a decent pool and sighted a few fish in it and had to try and catch one.
Some of the fish were hooked a little deeper than we like, but we cut the line and released them with hope they will survive, they all swam off healthy so they should be fine. They are not the biggest fish but they are fun to catch. It was a great day for the family and we really enjoyed just being out together.
A big giant "THANK YOU" to Steve for the guided tour. Steve has worked hard the last two weeks to get others out fishing while he has been on vacation.
This is a video of me and Aaron......Gotta love watching kids fish.
Happy New Year everyone!
Eddie, Rebecca and the boys!
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Great job an all the beautiful little Trout.
Originally Posted by Wingnut
