El Luna

Told you guys I'd get eclipse pics. Not the best quality (don't have the right lens for my D3000 so I had to use my little Coolpix S630) but they came out ok.

Hey, it's the best I can do with a tripod and a little digital camera with 7x zoom.
Here's what I got with my D3000

About 25 minutes earlier. Had to find my tripod which I thought I had lost.

Up next- Diablo...

Early Christmas at PB's house

I've been hanging out in Tailwaters for the past few days trying to decide on a Christmas present for Mom to get me.  decided I want a new 4wt rod that's a lot better than anything I currently have. Casted 4 of them alongside my Clouser and fell in love with a 7'9" G.Loomis Whisper Creek GLX 4wt.

http://www.gloomis.com/publish/content/gloomis_2010/us/en/fly/rods/trout_rods/whispercreek_glx.html

Yes, that is a $625 Fly rod. Travis got me a sweet deal on it ($340 or something like that) and matched it up with a sweet reel (Sage Click 4wt) http://www.sageflyfish.com/dyn_prodlist.php?k=132673 and a SA GPX line (I'm literally obsessed with this line)

This combo just seems perfect. The rod casts line really nicely, I love how light the reel is, and the reel is the exact same color as the reel seat. The problem? Mom won't let me use it until Christmas.

 This rod is just awesome. I haven't even fished it yet and I love it.


Now tomorrow is a big day. Wake up at 5, get in the car at 6 with Grandpa, drive 4 hours to Austin, pick up my new Diablo Chupacabra, go by ACK and get a new paddle, stand up paddleboard paddle, mount for my new fishfinder (more of a real graph and a GPS), and a few other things, then drive home. Now,  I need to set up a time to sneak off to one of the rivers and mess around with some Rios, Sunfish, and maybe a few bass. I may just end up back at Shoal Creek or Waller Creek that I fished during the clouser contest(and hauled on Rios and sunfish) or LBL is probably a good choice too.

Hey Guys-FULL LUNAR ECLIPSE tonight. It starts at 1:20 so I'm waiting on it so I can go get some pics. Everyone was all excited about it at Tailwaters. I hope it's really spectacular! I'll post some pics right after I get them tonight.

Another creek day

Hit the creek again yesterday after one of the elusive Golden Redhorse I saw last time. I noticed right when I started to go down the little path I made to get down to the water that the water was clearer and there were more leaves. I got down to the water (before I put my waders on) and felt the water temp. It was colder, much colder. I saw the redhorse again but wasn't able to get it, it spooked almost immediately after I saw it. I fished a size 18 Beadhead Zebra Midge the whole time. I got several on it.

I got about 8 little longears, 6 or so little bluegill, a few greenies, and 1 Red Spotted sunfish. A pretty good day considering the water temp and water clarity spooked fish and made them really lethargic. A fun day!

A trip to The Cliffs

Went to The Cliffs yesterday. I got 1 blue cat and 1 buff. Kinda slow day out there. I got the buff on salty maize and got the cat on a pineapple boilie. 

New alarms worked great! I love them already.

10lb Blue cat

I had Sophie with me. She just sat there and stared at me, tried to eat my method mix, and got scaed of fish.

10lb 3oz buff

New Alarms and a cool colored LMB

I finally got my new Fox Micron Eos bite alarms in Tuesday. Been waiting forever to upgrade the old alarms (shitty BFS alarms I got for 15 bucks each) and i finally did it. They are really sweet. I have only fished them for a short 1 hour trip to check to see if they worked  and I love them already.

I plan on fishing them tomorrow at the Cliffs or the Trinity Swag swim. I want to get into a few carp or buffs. It's been a while.

I went to the Library today and got this LMB on a little 3 inch craw on a jighead. I don't know what causes these black spots (I've heard it's stress) but this fish sure has a lot of them.

I have a pretty full week ahead. Going down to Austin to pick up my new kayak this week. I'm getting a Diablo Chupacabra (finally something other than my little emotion. I might still keep it but I don't know when I would fish it. Whatever.

Trinity Swag

I fished a new pond I found on Google Earth today and caught one blue cat. This place is smack between California Crossing and the Lewisville Dam on the Elm Fork of the Trinity.

This may be my new favorite spot. Not only does it look great, but I heard that there are huge gar and some carp in here. I'm putting in my kayak as soon as I can to figure out the whole

deal about this place.

If you guys haven't already heard I got hurt. I dislocated and sprained my knee on tuesday. It sucks. I can't bend my knee and it's hard to walk. Well, it hasn't kept me from fishing so I'm still doing it. I hope I can actually get a carp tomorrow instead of blanking like I have been. oh well...

creek day

Wanted to check out my creek this week. I caught a few little Green sunfish Bluegill hybrids. The water was cold and the fish were lethargic. But, I saw a Golden Redhorse! I almost never see suckers down in the creek, so this was a pretty special day

I got the 2 little ones I caught on a blue Theo's Bomber from Millers Fly Shop (thanks Jonathan!)

Yesterday was my Birthday! the sucky thing is I was sick almost all day and I'm home sick now. Been in bed all day and i hope to get back out to the creek  tonight once I shake this off

BUT i'm going to pick out my new camera tomorrow- a Nikon D3000. Finally a good camera! 

~PB