04-05-2011, 12:57 PM
OK...maybe not 
. I'd like to be some competition for you vets though!
My name is Marcus and I've been around for a good clutch of years, but haven't really been fishing since I was 15 years old or so and wasn't very "good" at it then. Haven't ever been into the fly fishing thing, mostly bait and a hook and a little bit of weight...and no real strategy at that. Mostly wherever pops wanted to go.
At this point, I am pops, and boy oh boy do I have my work cut out for me if I want my kiddos to have a good time fishing with me. Who would've thunk it'd be so hard to keep your kids occupied while paying attention to your own rig?
Long story short, I'm getting back into it 10 years after I stopped to pursue stupid teenage BS, and catching or not I'm having a good time with it! I hope to glean a bit of experience from the folks lurking around here that have been hitting up waterways near Idaho Falls (within about 100 miles), and share some of the memories I'll be making with my chillens this spring/summer/fall.
That said, I caught one about a week ago and I was SO EXCITED...but it didn't look like any trout I'd seen before. Made me think for a minute before sticking him on the stringer and gutting him, was just hoping he wasn't on the restricted list, but he swallowed the hook and I couldn't get the bugger out. With the 10 year gap in my fishing, it completely skipped my mind that I could cut the line and that hook would dissolve, so I strung him up, gutted him and brought him home. It was only after I got home and studied the fish identification charts that I realized it was a damn Utah Chub. He's still in my freezer, but I'm not sure whether I want to cook him and choke him down myself or if the pets are going to get him...but it was a good time catching him.
If you have any chub recipes, throw them out there...LOL. Pic attached just to illustrate the excitement.
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. I'd like to be some competition for you vets though! My name is Marcus and I've been around for a good clutch of years, but haven't really been fishing since I was 15 years old or so and wasn't very "good" at it then. Haven't ever been into the fly fishing thing, mostly bait and a hook and a little bit of weight...and no real strategy at that. Mostly wherever pops wanted to go.
At this point, I am pops, and boy oh boy do I have my work cut out for me if I want my kiddos to have a good time fishing with me. Who would've thunk it'd be so hard to keep your kids occupied while paying attention to your own rig?
Long story short, I'm getting back into it 10 years after I stopped to pursue stupid teenage BS, and catching or not I'm having a good time with it! I hope to glean a bit of experience from the folks lurking around here that have been hitting up waterways near Idaho Falls (within about 100 miles), and share some of the memories I'll be making with my chillens this spring/summer/fall.
That said, I caught one about a week ago and I was SO EXCITED...but it didn't look like any trout I'd seen before. Made me think for a minute before sticking him on the stringer and gutting him, was just hoping he wasn't on the restricted list, but he swallowed the hook and I couldn't get the bugger out. With the 10 year gap in my fishing, it completely skipped my mind that I could cut the line and that hook would dissolve, so I strung him up, gutted him and brought him home. It was only after I got home and studied the fish identification charts that I realized it was a damn Utah Chub. He's still in my freezer, but I'm not sure whether I want to cook him and choke him down myself or if the pets are going to get him...but it was a good time catching him.
If you have any chub recipes, throw them out there...LOL. Pic attached just to illustrate the excitement.
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