Memorial Day Weekend 2009

Wow!!!  This weekend was perfect.  The friends, family, weather, water and trout

 

Saturday early AM started with a few hours of trout fishing.   I caught over 12 trout in about 2 hours.  Mostly rainbows on streamers; a few on blue wing olive.  The early morning was interrupted by a visit from my oldest son (Spencer).  He wanted to go fishing. That’s a first!!  We caught 2 trout before he started throwing rocks.  A 12” brown and a 14” rainbow trout on a BWO.  After the rock throwing session, the trout were not hitting quite as well.

 

Saturday afternoon the Harman’s (Angelina, Todd, Spencer, Christian), Jermey and Mika, Roby’s (Kelsie and Fred) and friends(John and Lori) went canoeing on the South Branch River.  The water was perfect.  Fred and Kelsie were the first to “roll the canoe”.  The kids really had fun swimming at the cliff hole.   We rented from Eagles Nest Outfitters.  They did a great job, getting the group safely to and from the stream.  We really appreciate the extra effort.  As soon as we returned home, dinner was served.  I’ve been trying to get mom to provide food to customers for year.  They are missing out.  The meal was awesome, and the timing was perfect!! On the table hot as soon as we arrived from our trip.

 

Fred & I spent some time together fly fishing Saturday evening.  It’s the first time we’ve taken the time to fish the property since starting the expansion in 1996.  It was a great evening.  Fred’s 1^st trout on a fly rod was a brown trout using a Blue Wing Olive size 14.   The fishing was great; during the day we caught over 15 trout with the largest about 18”.

When it became too dark to fish, we joined the family at the camp fire for Smores!!

 

Sunday early AM started with another few hours trout fishing.  I caught over 14 trout in about 2 hours.  Most of the rainbows were caught on a black steamer with a “PINK” head just above the bridge.  A few brown trout were caught on a blue wing olive and a few more rainbows were caught in the riffles between Cabin #13 and #15.  During the early morning fishing, two bald eagles were flying just above the rock cliffs at the cabins.  Around 8AM my youngest Son (Christian) showed up to go trout fishing.  He caught 3 trout in about 20 minutes.  One rainbow was at least 18”.  It was our family’s largest trout of the weekend. Angelina fished for a few minutes and caught a couple of trout. On of the most interesting was brown trout that was hook on the tail.. It was a great morning. 

 

Our 2^nd UTV Wilderness tour of the weekend was planned at 11AM.   It was a full tour  2 ATV guides; and all 4 UTVs.  The trip was another relaxing trip to Richwoods!

 

Finally, we really spent some good time training the next generation on “how to have fun”!!!

 

Weekend Summary

30 trout (largest 18”)

Fred’s 1^st trout on a Fly Rod

Angelina catches a brown by hooking it on the tail

Canoeing with Family and Friends

2 Eagles

2 trout for Spencer

3 trout for Christian

Campfire & Smore’s

UTV Wilderness Tour

Inter tubing and swimming

Mom’s good cooking!!! (I wish I could get her to cook for our wonderful cabin guests!!)

 

Todd Harman, Co-Owner & General Manager