Another picture perfect summer day and I think it's Saturday, right? I took a road trip yesterday which included a stop in Republic to mail out a package. Oops. I knew it was the fourth of July but without no festivities in town it looked like any other non dedescript day on Quartermain street. I had laughed only a few days ago when a friend went to the bank on Sunday and the front door was locked. Who is laughing now?
I was fired up when I left town because I was going fishing for the day at my favorite trout spot. Check out my gallery for my catch of the day. It was the first time I'd gone there this year and it brought up great memories of last summer with Janet and the wonder dog Pippen snd all the way down to picking wild, red roses off the side of the road. Not many places where the roses are free, eh? I poked myself in the eye with an errant branch working my way through the jungle to the stream. It is tough sledding for sure and the well used path Kris and I made over 20 years ago is all grown in and mother nature has taken over. Funny how time goes by. I can hear the running water before I get to the stream and it is music to my ears and blinking eye...
Fishing here means jumping from rock to rock and finding the good holes where the brookies lurk. Kris and I know every single hole in this 200 yard stretch of water and on my first cast I felt that jerk on my ugly stick and pulled up a nice 8" brookie with the orange belly that shows it is a native. I put the fish in my creel and said like I always do, "Can't catch three until you catch two". Superstition, I guess....
The mosquito's weren't taking any prisoners but I was because I left my bug dope with Blue by the side of the road. Not to worry. I found some mud muck by the edge of the water and covered my face, hands and arms. It may not be pretty but it is what the Indians did 200 years ago and it still works. I caught my limit, 5, in a couple hours and that includes throwing back many. This stream never stops giving and I will never stop coming to my little secret spot in the middle of nowhere and somewhere in the western part of Upper Michigan...
Have a great weekend and can't wait to read how your 4th went. Take care and do good deeds....
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