Memorial Weekend

What a great weekend we had, just the two of us! As you know we were going to go backpacking but the weather did not cooperate with us so we head to Antelope Lake and did some fishing. We left Friday night, thanks again Grammy, the girls love you so much, as well as us, and made it to Antelope Lake at 11:00pm and set up our camp. We stayed in the back of the truck with our air mattress and sleeping bags. Well I didn't wear enough clothes because I froze. We both have mummy bags and were still cold. As soon as daylight hit Scott was out fishing. When he got out of the truck, there was frost on the window, so it was cold. After a couple of minutes he came back with a fish to show me that it was time to get up. I put on multiple layers and we headed out about 25 feet from camp. I casted a couple of times and got snagged everytime and was about to give up but we decided to head to another hole. Good thing because we started catching more fish. The rainbows were so beautiful, each one looking different as you can tell with each picture down below.

I caught this fish but it was just easier for him to take the picture.

The picture doesn't do it justice. It was beautiful with the rainbow stripe. Good size too!

Headed down stream again and I caught this one. It was so dark, the colors of the fish that is. We could see the fish hanging out in the water. I think at each hole I caught about 3 fish, one little ones and two good size. Scott was letting me fish them and he would take them off the lines and put on new bait. What a great husband! I got a bite with almost every cast.

Look how dark it is!

Finally it was Scott's turn to fish. He caught this in the second hole I fished.

See the red on the gill plates. The colors were amazing. By this time I had already caught a limit if we were keeping them. So we decided to head down the creek and find a new place to fish. We headed to the dam and hiked down but no bites. It was time for breakfast so we headed back and had some food and coffee. At this time it felt like it was 70 degrees out since when we started it was like 30-35. We were going to go kayaking on Antelope Lake but the wind picked up and we decided not too. We fished a couple of other streams and caught some little ones, well I caught one good size one. We headed to another lake called Round Valley Lake...it was beauiful and we were all ready to camp there but no overnight camping, so we headed to Butt Lake. Round Valley was nice but to shallow to kayak and fish. So we go to Butt Lake and are ready to camp at a camp ground but it costs $25 a night which is way to expensive. So we left Butt Lake and went to Lake Almanor. We found a great campsite which is pictured below. It was crazy because it took us about 2 hours to finally decide on a place. But it all worked out. We set up camp and decided to go for a walk and went fishing on the lake.

Scott caught this smallmouth bass from the shore. It made up hopefully for the next day.

Our campsite...nobody around us...thats how we camped most of the weekend. It was great!

A view of Mount Shasta early in the morning from Lake Almanor. Not sure if everyone knows this but Lake Almanor is a tradition in my family. My grandparents would come here from October to February. In fact my grandpa retired up there and is buried up there. We went to see him which is crazy! Its really hard to see your family name on a tombstone.

Scott caught the only fish from the kayak. What a great way to go fishing and enjoy the lake. It was beautiful, just wish that we could have caught some more fish.

If you can see this, its a picture of a carp in the water. we were in shallow water and I told Scott there was a fish on a branch in the water. He was like no its a whole fish. I still couldn't see it but finally was able too. We casted to see if we could get it to bite and Scott's bait was right in front of its nose but bite. It was huge, about 25-30 pounds.

After Lake Almanor we headed back on the 36 toward home and found a place to fish on a little creek that Scott always wanted to fish. He caught a small rainbow and that was it. We found this camp after unpacking and going for a walk. It was much better then the first one. Overall it was a great weekend. We enjoyed each others company and the girls got to spend time with grammy, who did a great job!

The girls playing with their new water table. Thanks grammy!