My Life and Travels
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.
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.
The park is full this evening and some people had to leave without finding a place to stay.
Hank and I went for a walk this morning.
Here is the aerial picture:
On the walk we saw two coyotes, and I got a picture of the second one.
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.