Louis, Louis Lake, We Gotta Go Now

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Rain and Hail at South Pass City
A rain and hail storm giving my truck, in the background, a wash.

We got up, had breakfast, and headed out early to Louis Lake. The weather prediction was for rain before noon and we wanted to be gone before that happened. A nice zucchini and green onion omelet, a cup of coffee, and we were off. 

We arrived at the lake a little after 9 AM and 16 minutes later I had landed a nice spake- by Connie's accounting, the largest fish of the season. I think her fish a couple of weeks ago was longer, but this fish was heavier). We caught three fish in our first hour of fishing. And then the wind picked up. Fishing slowed down, mostly, I think, because it was difficult to cast to the more productive areas. In the next hour, we had a few strikes and Connie landed one fish. Dark clouds were building and building and then the wind stopped. I know what this means. We loaded up, left, and watched in the rear view mirror. Three splake and one rainbow trout. Not bad, really, for two hours of fishing.

 We saw six pronghorn antelope on the way out to the lake and 13 on the way back- eleven of which were in one herd. Decent!

We got back home, put everything away and I went down to the archives to do some computer work for a while. Connie had started a batch of sourdough English muffins and needed the dinette table to knead, shape, and raise the muffins.

Shortly after I got there, the skies opened at SPC and we had rain and hail. I had a good writing session and headed back to the trailer. Connie and I took a quick walk along the Flood and Hindle trail- I wanted to take a couple more photographs of the maul I found yesterday and I wanted to photograph something else I had seen yesterday. I found the maul and then, wow! Yesterday I had seen an aspen that had been drilled by a sapsucker. I had never paid attention to this before, but once you look, it is everywhere.

Aspen with scars from sapsuckers (and a lot of weeping).

 Hike finished, I returned to the trailer and started the pellet smoker. Connie was baking her English muffins, but mixed up eggs, spinach, and cheese for two large frittatas. We make these, divide them into fourths and our workweek breakfasts are done. I threw four ears of corn in with the fritattas for dinner tonight and tomorrow. I sat outside while all the smoking was going on and observed a couple of rufous hummingbirds, the first birds of the season to visit our hummingbird feeder.

Fresh trout, smoked corn on the cob, and coleslaw for dinner. After dinner, Connie went for a walk and I read a bit and did a little writing.

 

 

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