The Striped Fever!

Hello all. It has been a long time since my last post. By now you should take that as no surprise though. Well to start things off I finished this semester of school, I had an easy load of 7 credits. Physics, History, and a fitness center course to fill in a credit. I also took the second half of the Book of Mormon in institute. Glad to say I graduated with an Associate Degree of Science, and also I graduated with a 2 year Degree in Institute. The institute completion was a surprise, I guess I wasn't focused on completing any particular requirements, but I got them notheless.

I turned 24 in April. My friends Timmy and Josh, and their wives Trini and Candace, threw me a rockin steak eatin' Kareoke Party.

During the past semester I was working two days a week when I didn't have school. It payed the bills and was good enough. OH! for those who didn't hear I got out of motorcycles for a little while. I sold my Blue Yamaha and also my KTM (I only had the KTM for 1 month). I got out of all my debt, and I even came out ahead with some money I made when I sold my VW Vanagon. I haven't been riding for a few months now. It doesn't bother me that much, it has been really dry and any group riding would have been miserable with all the dust that would have been kicked up.

So now that I've been out of school for the summer I have been available to work all week. Too bad there's no work. We have been working on a house in Pine Valley, but the homeowner hasn't been paying my boss, and he had enough of it. So last week instead of working for free we all took a trip to Lake Powell to go fishing for a few days.













We went out for striped bass, and normally the catch is abundant but in 2 days we only caught 26 or so. We all decided to stay for another day. We talked to this old timer and he gave us tips. We headed to town to get more whole anchovies which was our bait, special hooks that the old timer said to buy, some more snacks, and Subways for dinner. We got it all at WALMART! PAr tof the plan was to sleep on the boat because at dusk until night was one of the best times to catch. We did catch a bunch, we fished into the night until about 9:30. My boss Laymon and Jesse went to sleep in the back on the fold down seats and I slept in a sideways sort of curl with my feet hangin atop the bow in my sleeping bag with my pole baited and line in the water. I caught one fish at about 10:30. We all fell back asleep, and I threw my pole back into the water.





The night was kind of miserable, for the other two guys, But I was warm and comfy as could be in a semi-fetal position, and feet over the bow. The night was pretty bad, the wind was howling, the boat was rocking, we had to wake up often to pump water out of our leaking boat, and sometimes the hourly security inspections on the Glen Canyon Dam, woke us up. (We were parked on the security buoys which were about 700 yards or so from the actual dam. Its a customary and good spot to fish). At one point I woke up around 3A.M. I checked my pole which I was grasping through my sleeping bag. I was kinda disappointed, it felt like I had a snag but as I tried to free my line, it started wriggling, I reeled her in and plopped a fish in the back of the boat, where Laymon and Jesse were not-so-sound asleep now. I ACTUALLY CAUGHT A FISH IN MY SLEEP. Jesse got jealous and threw a few casts but didn't get anything so we all went back to sleep.








In the morning Laymon woke us all up to the sound of WOOHOO boys its fishing time, and he threw a fish into boat. We got a hold of ourselves, and around 6AM we threw in our anchovie baited lines and within seconds of casting we had fish on the line, it continued for another 45 minutes or so, until it got later and other boats showed up. We think being there all night gave us an edge, making us incognito. We caught a bunch more but stretched out over a few more hours.













It was a lot of fun and we saw some awesome scenery travelling through the channels and canyons to and from our spots. It was just a fantastic time. If you want anyomre pictures, just email me.




In all we caught 54 fish, mostly Striped Bass. We also caught 3 Walleye, a Bigmouth Bass, a Catfish, and my whopping Ring Perch.











I caught the most diverse amount of fish, the smallest and the longest, measuring 23 inches! I wish I could tell and remember all the funny things that happened. Just imagine putting 3 happy-go-lucky goof-off construction workers together on a boat for 3 days, you're bound to have lots of practical jokes. Like gassing the throttle as you "go" off the back of the boat. you also go crazy, I once thought I had a big fish when I really caught my line on the bow railing. The harder I pulled the harder the "fish" pulled.














We had a fish fry the other day with everyone's families and it wsa some good eatin'. Now I got the fishing bug. I've been fishing nearby 4 times in the last week. I just registered our Aluminum fishing boat and there will surely be more trips in the future.

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