Owyhee with Tommy

Finally Tommy bought his fly tackle by himself. Yeah, it is time to go fishing together again.

I selected the Owyhee River in Oregon to enjoy rise fishing.

Weather was perfect cloudy. We could see some rises here and there.

At first hole, there were good Baetis hatches. Baetis dun pattern should work well though, I missed some take...

Presently the number of rise got decreased and unstable.

Many bugs on surface made me confused. Baetis, Mahogany, Midge... too rich! It was first time to see Mahogany for me.





After we spent much time at first hole, we moved to 2nd hole for the last chance.

Tommy spotted some rises.

Still I was struggling to identify the fly with what fish feeding...

I had short bite to the Griffith's Gnat. Although I missed that take, I got certain confidence.

My first one was 18inches/45cm by midge parachute. This late one gave me a pleasure.

2nd one; 16.5inches/42cm good face.

The last one was 19inches/49cm fattest one in this river.













Anytime I visited this river, there was lots of learning for me.


I hope this healthy river goes on.

Callibaetis and Baetis; Fall Silver Creek

I went to the South Fork of Boise River first today after long long interval though, I was fed up with a bunch of anglers.

So I change the destination to the Silver Creek.

At Sullivan Lake(Slough), I did see some rise and no fishermen there. I found some callibaetis dun were sipped by trout.


I caught first one by #16 dun pattern soon. It was a kind of small one, but good start for me.

It was beautiful day there.

I caught some fish there. The largest one was 15incher, so beautiful.









This dun gave me a luck.

Around four o'clock, rises were stopped.










Then I moved to the junction of Loving Creek as second hole.

I found a few baetis dun there, so I selected its dun pattern without hesitation.

Although the number of rise was not so many, I found some certain ones.
The rising spot was so difficult to drift the dry fly naturally.






Fortunately I had good luck.

It was 16inch/40cm pretty colored one. I was so satisfied with this result.











After that, the rise was faded away, and I ended fishing.

I felt I made a better progress than last year.

Fishing with Tommy; Middle Fork of Boise River

Finally my replacement Tommy arrived here in Boise on Friday. I was surprised and pleased to hear that he would like me to take fishing this weekend. He gave me a chance to go fishing since end of August.

I picked the Middle Fork of Boise River up for his first place. I expected some active fish to dry fly still.

On the way we saw dead Skunk on the road.

I hoped it was not bad sign.

It was a kind of hot during daytime.

I tried dry dropper first, and got first one by pheasant tail as a dropper.

Small but good wild fish.

This was my first cut-bow(hybrid of rainbow and cutthroat) by corn head streamer.

Totally fishing there was slow. We were forced to do undersurface fishing. Tommy got skunked today though, likely had a good time there.

A little Cheap Red Wine Review; 11th

KENWOOD 2004: 3 star

Indian Creek 2005: 2.5 star

Bonterra 2005: 3 star

1st Shipment

Almost 80% of our stuff was shipped already today.

Now our life is likely close to camping.

A little Cheap Red Wine Review; 10th set

J. LOHR 2005; 1 star


Chateau Ste Michelle; 2 star

LOUIS. M. MARTINI; 2 star

Garage Sale

Our subdivision had annual garage sale today. We definitely jumped at it.

It was fun and good experience for us. Almost all of our stuff was sold out because of cheap pricing.

After that, we enjoyed cycling. It was first time for us to ride a bike together.

We are back from Glacier Trip!

Now we are back from long trip to the Glacier National Park(Total 1634.8miles). One of our dreams(Moose) didn't come true though, it was definitely wonderful trip for us. So let me upload the detail little by little.

This is the one of today's snaps.

She likes to do window washing especially.

This is not cloud but wood fire around council ID. Scary!

Grinell Glacier from Lake; Many Glacier

Our third try to see the Moose was still going on this morning.














We could see awesome sight instead of the Moose.











But we still needed to see the Moose...









The boat Cruise through the Swiftcurrent Lake and Lake Josephine made us excited.

This pic is the second ride at the Lake Josephine.












It was first time for us to see sipping bear.









It looked brown but species was likely 'Black Bear'.









After trail hiking, we could see the Grinell Glacier from the Grinell Lake.










On the way to be back, he gave her chance to handle it.









We stayed the Many Glacier Hotel that night.

It was a kind of classical good one.

Move to Many Glacier

We headed for Many Glacier from two medicine today.

It took about two hours by drive, not so far. After we found the camping space, we visited the ranger station to ask the best spot for watching the Moose.

Next we visited the Many Glacier Hotel and bought a boat ticket for tomorrow.

Then we did trail hiking to see the moose. Our first destination, FISHERCAP LAKE, had nothing.

This pic was close to second one,RED ROCK LAKE. It took about 1.5hours(1.3mile/2.1km) one way for us. My daughter walked very hard this time, I think.

At the RED ROCK LAKE, we could not see any Moose also.

We were back to the campground, and took the quick supper. It was Japanese lamian this time. I felt almost full.

We did go to the FISHCAP LAKE again this evening. We saw Deer's family though, no Moose again.

We hoped tomorrow must be...

Logan Pass and Camping at Two Medicine Lake

Today was moving day from Lake Macdnald to Two Medicine via Logan Pass by GTTS(Going To The Sun) Road.

Logan Pass Visiter Center

He was awesome RAM.

My daughter found them first. Good catch, sweetie!

I liked this contrast.

We tried to the trail to Hidden Lake Over Look though, gave it up halfway... She did walk by herself very well.

Two medicine Lake. We did camping there, and it was first one at the natioal park for us.

My wife's idea was great. It worked well for us.

Arrived Glacier; Lake MacDonald

She collected pretty stuff this morning.

We left that campground about eleven in the morning. I felt sleepy a little by shortage of sleep, but the blue sky gave me an energy.

After entering Montana, we did see some wood fire still. But smoke influence was not so severe like this pic.

After about 5 hours drive, we did reach the West Glacier Entrance finally. We had to pay $25 as entrance fee which was effective a week, since our annual national park pass was expired last July.

We checked in the Apgar Village Lodge which was close to Lake MacDonald, and had quick supper at the picnic area.

She was getting better to throw a stone. We could have enough sleeping time that night in warm room.