Waiting for Spring.
Is this winter over yet? I have been waiting for some warm hiking weather and it just isn’t coming very fast. It is a good thing that I have been adicted to ice fishing this season. I have gone so many times, enjoying the freezing temps! Well thats not why I go, I just love to catch fish. I don’t like to eat them, but I give them to people that do love to eat them. Out of all the times I have been out I have only been skunked 2 times. But I have made up for it all the other times fishing. Today I went out to Strawberry Res and even though it was a slow start I caught quite a few and even some of my biggest yet this year. I am kind of glad that all the Cutthrouts that I catch are in between that 15 – 22inch mark, cause then I have to throw them back. I do feel bad keeping them sometimes, but at least they aren’t going to waste. Even in March there was still 2 feet of ice to drill through. I think I will make it out a couple more times before I call it quits for the ice fishing.
We are planning a trip here in a couple of weeks for my birthday down to Escalante on Hole in the Rock road. Want to hike to Zebra and Tunnel Slot canyons, and then camp at Dance Hall Rock, then hike down Hole in the Rock to Lake Powell and do some fishing. Now all this might get done as long as mother nature doesn’t ruin this plan. We have been trying to make it to Moab a couple times this past month, but there has been more snow that way then there is here! We will get out soon!!!
Mother Nature, just let spring come!
