Aeneas Lake the opener:

      **** I was asked to do the creel report for Ryan our Biologist. I arrived at 7:35 stopped on top of the hill, and took account of fishers on the water by 8 AM, and talk to as many anglers as possible and the count again at noon.

    At 8, four anglers on the water, Gary and RB where at the launch getting ready to go out, and it wasn’t until about 9 before I was ready to be fishing myself, I worked my way around the lake from the launch along the eastside over towards Ken’s house on the northeast corner, I found Chuck R of Oroville, fishing Chromimids in 18-20 feet of water. He is one guy that is always there for opening and first thing he says to me, Hi Putmbac good to see ya, enjoy your blog. When I asked him what time he got on the water and how has the fishing been doin for him? “Damn slow just a few hook ups, been here since 7. Can’t believe how calm the water is haven’t see it look like glass in a very long time.” Chuck was right the whole lake looked like glass flat and water clear. Here it’s late April and the water temperature is already 61. The sky was overcast with some big blackish clouds.

I talked to a couple of other guys and they all pretty much said the samething that it was slow.

      I did pull out one Bow dragging my Punkinhead it was long and skinny at 13inches.

By 10 Bob P.  in his mid 80s put in and Bill O. now 93 where putin in their boats Ken and his wife were getting ready to launch and there were a couple of other back at the launch where I put in.

I dropped anchor in 9 foot of water changed out to my Sage RPL and put on a # 16 Chromie snowcone and moved the indicator to about what was about six inched above the weeds and gave it a fling of 50 feet. It wasn’t long before bobber down and my first real fighting fish. Nice 16 inch fat and healthy Bow. I stayed there for a while with many more until I hooked two more fish that both found something to wrap the line around and break me off.  After re-rigging twice I pulled anchor and moved off a ways.

      The guys trolling around weren’t doing so good but the ones that knew what to look for could see the size of the shucks had changed out to match the hatch and were doing real good.

By noon Gary, Scott, RB and I headed over to Doc’s parents place to meet up with Doctor Dave to talk and do some planning for our BC trip in June. We set the dates, figured out what to eat. I’ll do the research as to where we’ll be staying and the lakes to fish this year. Seven days 6 lakes.

By 12:45 we were all back into the water I gave RB a couple of flies and a little advice as to how to fish them and he did great the rest of the afternoon.

                    We were off the water by 3:15 all had another fun time.

Heard from Ryan that the road to buzzard is still pretty bad It’s raining here now so guess I’ll do some chores help Ginny make me some cookies glue up the new mount for the fish finder and maybe mow the lawn. YEA RIGHT!!  

         It's always a great time with good friends on the water and seeing some of the other guys that you only see every now and then. Like Bob in his eighties,  he is a great fisherman with lots of knowledge. and to see Bill still at it at 90+  still out rowin around can't cast far anymore but he can still catch fish after fish and have a fun time. I just hope I can still be at it with the same passion later in life.