Wednesday, July 23, 2008

Fishing & a New Camera

So about 2 weeks ago Karl and I went fishing up around Christmas Meadows. I had never been to that area before and it was really beautiful. The fishing wasn't great but it was still kind of fun. The fish were sooo small! I would yank them clear out of the water and launch them flying into the air when I would hook them after they took the fly. I caught the first fish and I know Karl was secretly jealous even though the fish was only the size of my hand. Anyway, we were walking upstream because someone had told Karl that the fish get bigger the further up you go. We didn't wear our waders because we walked through some stuff that can snag or rip them up. The river wasn't that deep and wet wading isn't bad especially when it's hot like it was. We were walking up in the river and I started to slip and almost fell about 3 times so I decided to get out of the river to walk along side of it. As I was making my way to the shore I slipped and got my foot wedged into something and just kind of ended up sitting down in the water. It was pretty pathetic because it wasn't even like this huge, dramatic slip and fall with a big splash. I just kind of lost my balance and was forced down into a sitting position. My camera was in one of the lower pockets of my backpack and it didn't make it. I was pretty pissed at that at first, but as the day went on I was more pissed that I had to hike around in wet underwear. Gross, it is the nastiest feeling ever!

I finally ordered a new camera yesterday and hopefully I'll be posting some new awesome pictures that I'll take with it in the near future. I am trying to salvage and post the 2 or 3 pictures I took before the fall so everyone can see how cute and little the fish were.

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