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Home: Thursday – April 30, 2015 – Lake Wilderness

This morning was another day of fishing.  Today I did have the use of my electric motor so I didn’t get near as much exercise.
But I did cover a lot of the lake.  I caught the first four in about 45 minutes (got to the lake around 8:00 a.m., I don’t wear a watch since I retired so I don’t always know what time it is) and then didn’t land the last one until after 11:00 a.m.

I caught the largest one last.  The largest one weighed 3/4 of a pound and all five weighed 2.5 pounds.  I hope to smoke these and Friday’s catch this weekend.

InReach tracking says I traveled 2.73 miles today on the lake and 2.89 miles yesterday.

Home: Wednesday – April 29, 2015 – Retirement Goal Achieved

One of my retirement goals was to start doing some lowland lakes trout fishing.  Today was my first day out on Lake Wilderness.  I got to the lake a little after 7:00 a.m. and had my five trout by 11:15 a.m.
They range from 8 to 12 inches.
This is an aerial view of the lake’s location.

Here is a road map view of the lake’s location.

In 1976 Dad and I built two boats for fishing and sailing.  My boat has been in the garage since probably 1979 or so.  We moved to Enumclaw in 1977 and Tanya was born in 1979, I don’t think I have used this boat since Tanya was born.
My boat is the yellow one sitting in the lake.
Here are a couple of pictures of truck I recently purchased and by fishing/sail boat.  It has actually taken a while to get the boat cleaned and to rebuild the trailer.  It needed new tires, lights and hitch coupler.
It was a good day and I’ll be out again tomorrow morning.  Tanya is giving me her BBQ now that she is moving to Poulsbo and I think I have figured out how to use it to smoke trout.

 

Fort Flagler – Thursday April 16, 2015

It is a beautiful day at Fort Flagler

Sunny and warm for April, we will be here at least through the weekend and maybe for a week or so.  We have site 115 which is a front row seat to the northern opening of Puget Sound.

By the way it is first day back to work for the lovely Mrs. Tanya Garcia our son-in-law Mike Garcia doesn’t return to work until Monday.  They are both wonderful people. 

 

Home – Thursday February 26, 2015 – Boat Trailer Coupler

Another project has been to get my 12 foot lake fishing boat back up and running/floating.

Today I put a new hitch coupler on the trailer.  Dad and I built two boats in 1976 and the trailer I have for my boat was new in 1969.  The coupler was in pretty tough shape so today I cut the old one off and bolted a new one on.  The original was welded onto the 3 inch box channel of the trailer’s frame.
I didn’t take a before picture, this is after the old coupler was cut off and I was cutting the welds off with a hack saw.  I did a lot of the cutting with a 3 inch air cutter I purchased from Harbor Freight several years ago.   I think I paid about $7.00 for it.
You got to love Harbor Freight.
Here is another picture of hand cutting the old weld bead off the trailer frame.
The new coupler, it is much better condition then the old one and should keep the trailer attached to the truck.  I’m looking forward returning to fishing this spring.

 

Home – Wednesday January 28, 2015

I have not updated the blog’s theme (the way it looks) since it was started in 2010.  I am now using theme named ” 2014 “.  I will be adding some of the new features of this theme as soon as I figure them out.   To start with this theme allows for multiple headers which will be displayed in a random sequence.