With the rivers on the rise and clouding up, a couple weeks ago I took a break from the combat salmon fishing of the Willamette and took the whole family to Henry Hagg Lake for some trout fishing. We got to the launch at the crack of 11:00am, launched the boat, parked the truck and much to our surprise, an ODFW truck backed in for a trout stocking.
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| Hagg Lake trout stocking |
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| Little G ready to catch some fish! |
Word of advice, if you're going to take a 1.5 yr. old trout fishing, do it on a day they're stocking the lake....it helps! Actually, I do think we caught more carryovers than planters but it was really great for the kids (and me) to see the stocking.
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| Big G with a fish on! |
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| Proud fisherman! |
At 3.5 yrs. old, my oldest son is really learning his way around boats and fishing. He's adamant about learning to bait his own hook with a night crawler and insists on de-hooking his fish with his own needle nose pliers. (he even knows which side of the boat is port and which side is starboard)
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| Cooking our catch, tailgate style! |
Both boys helped with parking and cleaning the boat but the best part of the day was cooking our catch. They didn't want to cook the trout on the big grill in the back yard, they wanted to use "the garage grill". So we tailgated in the garage, cooked some trout and watched the Seattle Mariners game.
Great family memories! I am so blessed with the wife and sons I have.
