A Day in Island Park

Last weekend, the end of June, Clay's brother, Tyler, and his friend Caeli came up from Utah to hang with us. Friday night we did a session at the Temple with our ward and then Saturday we headed up to Henry's Lake and fished their outlet. The first place we went there was nothing...other than Caeli finding this fish just "floating" by the bank which was a good 16 inches. So, Clay went to grab and it suddenly came to life! So we took it with us happy that we already had a big one! We left and went more into the trees and fished a wider river/stream. We borrowed our friend's waders so I put mine on and headed through the bushes upstream. We got into the water, quietly may I add, and instantly saw fish jumping! I was so excited! I am the type of fisher that if I don't at least see that there are fish there, I lose all hope. Ha ha So it looked like a bright day. Not too long after was I already having bites. I ended up catching at least 4 fish, however, they were not the legal size limit so sadly I had to throw them back in. It was so cool though just catching them and reeling them in! In the meantime of me catching mine, Clay changed bait and as soon as he cast his and took the first reel, his pole just bent like it had caught on a log. But NO...it started pulling so he had caught a big one! He finally reeled it in, and it was a good 17 incher!!! It was so cool! I act so surprised and excited because we haven't caught anything like that! So we caught some good ones there. We went to one more place and it seemed like a lame place but Clay was by a little dam and cast it by the side of it and low and behold, the same thing happened and he got a 16 incher! Tyler was taking it off the hook while Clay was freaking out that he was going to drop it when he took it and chucked it onto the bank. I picked it up and it had some spasms or whatever so I freaked and dropped it. Anyway, that's all we caught and so it was time to gut 'em so they let Caeli help out, this being her first time fishing. We then headed off to Tyler's old Bishop's cabin in Island Park and visited with his family and had some grub. We took off with the 4-wheelers up to Sawtelle Summit. It was an awesome ride and the top was spectacular! I was a bum and didn't go explore like the others so they were the ones getting the pictures. We ended the night with dinner at Pond's Lodge. I got a funky burn on my arms because I only used the remaining sunscreen from my face and didn't rub it all in so now it's a weird looking tan. Ha ha It was a lovely weekend!