Friday night my brother Jarrett came into town. He had brought both his ice fishing equipment and his snowboard. I have never been ice fishing before so Saturday morning, Jarrett and I went to Gene Taylors to purchase earthworms, meal worms, and salmon eggs. I also picked up my 2008 Colorado fishing license. We first drove to the end of the lake, past the dam, to look at some property. On the way back, we stopped before the entrance to Blue Mesa Reservoir and the Gunnison River. The first photo is Jarrett walking out towards the middle of the lake. The second photo is Jarrett drilling the first hole. We started fishing after 12:30 (I need to still adjust the time-stamp on my camera to reflect MDT)
After about an hour or so Jarrett caught the first fish as seen in the third photo. About ten minutes later, Jarrett caught his second fish for the day. As four o'clock approached, I hadn't caught anything yet and the weather was starting to get cold. I drilled out my own hole closer to Jarrett and put some new meal worms on my hook. A couple of minutes later, I caught my first lake trout of the year. Jarrett took the final picture of me with my 15 inch trout. Notice that I am not wearing my sun-glasses. Big mistake as the sun was extremely bright although the temperature on the lake was close to fifty. I also ended up with my first sunburn of the year. Most of the ice was at least 2 1/2 feet think but I did wander more out in the middle where the ice was only four inches thick.
This was the first time I went ice fishing and I am hooked! (bad pun) I had a great time on the ice with Jarrett and later, the fish provided a delicious dinner for the two of us.
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