Yorkshire lass in the Sierras!

[Sue]

Wow!
It was a weird trip to Bishop this tme. Last time was a week after my friends funeral, this time it was my friends husband, me and another friend. (BTW, there is nothing going on between us - I just rent a room from him!)
It took me 6 1/2 hours to get there, which sucked bum!

Finally got there Friday evening at 7.30, immediately hit The Lodge where my friends were waiting including Sierra Smity :)
My girlfriend was wasted by this point, and we still had to eat dinner! Overall, it was a fun night and Derek's fried chicken was awesome!
Spoke to the husband type person on the way up, he told me he loved me and would miss me.

Saturday, I hit up the hole after taking the dog for a walk (they got her just before my friend passed) and she's not yet 2, so still a puppy. The neighbors loved seeing my in my PJ's walking her!

Fished a bit, caught nothing. We went up to North Lake and other than the dog almost being eaten by 2 doberman dogs there was not a lot of action that day.
Or the next, when we froze our butts off on South Lake. My buddy caught a fishy. Woo.
Monday was a hard day for me, I'd stopped eating by this point due to stress nausea, so we went horseback riding.
I'm sorry, but I'm a city slicker and have been on a horse once before in my life. The nice people at Rainbow gave me a mule to ride!!!! It was cool, but I did have some girly screamy moments coming downhill.

Saw SierraSmitty most nights at the Lodge, and also met Oban briefly. Nice guy, but he barely said Hi to me. Waddup with that, Oban???

On Monday night, I caugth a fish. Yay! First one this trip. Tuesday morning I went back to the same spot - farmed a couple and caught 2. Went back an hour later while the others were cooking breakfast (bleurhg) and caught another 2. Yay. Happy happy goodness.

My girlfriend and I finally left around 4.45pm Tuesday. She was wasted drunk and tried to hook me and Smitty up - it was rather funny.

We took the 395 back at 95mph most of the way. Slowed down to 80 around Palmdale, and got pulled over by CHP just before Old Road on the 14 for speeding (fair enough). I was doing 80 by then. The nice officer only gave me a warning ( he was laughing at me for admitting my speed) so we got home withing 4 1/2 hours (including a food stop and a gas stop and spending 20 minutes trying to find the freeway after the CHP stop).
Smitty - thanks again for South Lake and sorry about my friend.
Oban - dude! I told Smitty to bring you drinking with us. Where were you???

[one_leg]

Ha Ha Ha, I'm glad your back, Sue. Wanna go back up there tomorrow?

Thanks for the report, now where's the evidence? aka PICS....lol

Oban was probably just awed into silence by your presence. He's a great guy.

One_Leg

[Sue]

Ha Ha Ha, I'm glad your back, Sue. Wanna go back up there tomorrow?

Thanks for the report, now where's the evidence? aka PICS....lol

Oban was probably just awed into silence by your presence. He's a great guy.

One_Leg

Pics to be uploaded when I know hubbytypeextypeperson won't be at "home". I have visitation with the cats tomorrow, so maybe then :cry:
Shame I never took a picture of my finger being crushed between the boat dock and the boat.
That hurt.

[Sierra_Smitty]

It was great seeing you again Sue...wish the fishin was a little better for ya. Your friend is hilarious...homegirl can drink that wine can't she! haha!!!!

Hopefully we'll catch up sometime this winter at an FNN event.

Peace,
Smitty

[Troutman65]

Sue, Glad your back also !! Nice report. From the sound of it you all had fun. Can't wait to see the pics.

I would of paid alot of $$ to see you on that Mule :lol:


Take care.


Troutman65

[xtranzman]

Nice job Sue, I'm pretty jealous that you have been up there more than I have this year, but at least someone is getting out...LOL..


Hope to see ya at Irvine in a few weeks.


Take care,

X

[Wingnut]

Nice trip Sue, glad to see that you're out & about. :wink:

Oban is kinda shy, I met him at the Legends event. He was telling that he was trying to get a job up there at Smitty's. I guess he DID get hired, congrats Oban!

[Oban]

Saw SierraSmitty most nights at the Lodge, and also met Oban briefly. Nice guy, but he barely said Hi to me. Waddup with that, Oban???

Oban - dude! I told Smitty to bring you drinking with us. Where were you???

Sorry about that Sue. My family was also up here this weekend. I was all over seeing scenery with them and rarely at Parcher's. Smitty gave me the weekend off to spend some time with them. I'm not a drinker, but I would have loved to sit down and talk with you guys.
When we met on the boat ramp, I was out of breath and had been feeling sick. My father sent me to go buy some bait, 4th trip up that boat ramp in like 30 minutes for various reasons, so I was barely able to muster out a "hello".

Wingnut is correct as well. I am kind of a shy, non talkative guy, but I would have talked to you a bit more if I wasn't so out of breath right then. Thanks for the congrats Wingnut.

Glad you at least caught something and had some fun up here. Fishing was pretty bad for my family that weekend too. I was trying to put them on the fish on the creek while I targeted tiny Brookies, but I kept ended up hooking into browns and rainbows that I wanted them to get.

[Beancounter]

Thanks for the Thursday afternoon entertainment Sue :lol:
Glad to see you had a nice time and caught some fishies.
8)

[sansou]

Funny report Sue!


See you around,

Sansou


(I met that Oban character at Legends. He is a real quiet guy....it's the quiet ones you got to worry about. ha ha!!)