On the way up Hwy55, I kept telling the kids to watch for Roger because I knew he was on the river that day, and sure enough we saw his truck on the side of the road. So we hopped out and watched him go down "Houndstooth" until he floated off into the smoke. Speaking of smoke, just look at the picture to see how thick it was from the local forest fires. Luckily it cleared out as we headed north.
Over the weekend, we fished Little Payette Lake (beautiful and quiet, but no bass)....
....Payette Lake (busy, beautiful, no bass)....
...and Cascade Lake (Nice Bass Shanna!!).
Shannie scored this nice 3 and a half lb smallmouth on a watermelon/chartruese tube. Just about took her to the cleaners a couple of times before we finally got it in the boat. I think she just discovered a new favorite camp/fish area! Most people fish for trout at Cascade, but I'm kind of ignant of all that so we caught a bunch of smallmouth instead. The perch were thick as flies, so Mia nonchalantly hooked a couple. Coop, meanwhile, simultaneously tried to play his new GameBoy, assemble a Peanut Butter and Jelly sandwich, and solve two jigsaw puzzles, all with minimal success. His TFAS (Total Fishing Attention Span) is about 90 seconds so he didn't manage to hook anything but me.
Overall we had a really nice time, which I think goes without saying (so I won't).
