July 2014

Summertiiiime, and the livin' is easy... It's been almost a year since I updated this blog. And I had such good intentions... Oh well, I'm going to start plugging away at it again and, with luck, I'll get back up to date before summer kicks in again.

Something left half of a muskrat under our picnic table at Tunkwa!

Now there's a feat - four retrievers sitting still for a photo. It didn't last long!

Sadie catching some air.

Stretching her legs.

Wendy and Sadie peeking out of our camper at Plateau Lake.

We had the whole place to ourselves.

On the road out from Plateau Lake. It's steeper than it looks!

Wendy needed to hold trees out of the way from time-to-time.

Fish on! Peter Hope Lake.

'Twas a nice one!

A blunt-nosed Peter Hope Lake trout.

This odd contraption was hanging from a tree in our campsite at Peter Hope Lake. I wonder what it is?

The Great Blue Heron hung around in a tree nearby for quite a while.

There were some woodpeckers chowing down in the trees nearby, too.

They make very cool pecking patterns on the bark.

Sadie and Norm's dog get acquainted on Tunkwa.

Such cool-looking creatures are chironomid pupae.

Sadie didn't want to get left behind!

I see you!

Is it safe to come out?

I'm outta here!

Well, there you have it, finally some photos from last July. If I do one month per session whenever I can I should get caught up by July...

Cheers! KW

May, 2014

I'm catching up! 'Only six months behind now...

May brought a big event - Alison graduated from Emily Carr University of Art & Design! Yet another reason love spring. The fish are waking up and I even caught a few, I was able to get my school flyfishing club out for a couple of fishing trips, Alison and Lucas met Sadie, and so did Barry and Marie Solieil and their pups Gadget and Pippi. 'Twas a good month!

Greeting us as we arrived at the UBC Chan Centre for the Emily Carr Convocation

The Chan Centre was a great venue for the convocation ceremony

Here's Alison receiving her degree!

Proud parents with Alison Woodward, B.F.A.

After the convocation we went and enjoyed the grad art show.
This is the caption for Alison's piece.

Papercut mastery

The future Mr. and Mrs.

Well done, Alison!

Some of the gang at our first SMS Flyfishing Club fish-out of the year.
We fished Hall Rd pond, stocked with catchables for kids by GoFishBC.

Fish on!

Sophia's first time fishing!

Evan and his dad

Sometimes tangles happen...

Success!

The gang lined up at our second fish-out at Shannon Lake.

I even managed to get out and fish a bit.
This one was caught in Zipperlip Lake. Gotta love that Moby net!

Another one from Zipperlip. Amazingly, Sadie's not trying to eat it!

They are slippery devils... ;-)

Bill in his snazzy new Smith Brothers pram

Marie Soleil introducing Sadie to Pippi and Gadget.
Treats kept their attention!

Alison and Lucas meeting Sadie.

April 2014

 Yes, I am officially the least conscientious blogger on Earth....

Oh well, here are a few photos to start getting up-to-date.

Near the end of March we adopted a new family member - Sadie! She's our beautiful 2 year-old female Yellow Lab, and as you can see in the photos she settled in pretty fast!

Sadie's first walk near Mission Creek with Wendy and me

She likes the couch!

And she loves to cuddle

I made my annual early season trip down to Sawmill Lake to shake out the shack nasties (although the trip to the Methow helped a lot with that!).

First still water fish of the season

A fish to justify my Moby Whale a little...

After a couple of years waiting for my neighbour who promised to remove a stump beside our driveway, and I finally got tired of waiting and decided to take care of it myself. Thank goodness for pickups with low-range 4WD and a strong rope!

Almost out!

Gone!

One day we were over at Alison's future in-laws, the Belgroves, and we all had a go with Darrell's pellet gun. We even hit something, eventually...

Lucas helps Alison take her first shots

Barry taking a bead

Even Wendy gave it a go!

Some more Sadie pix. She was great during her first boat ride, but not so much on the drive to the lake - she expelled her breakfast into the backseat and half-filled the cubbyhole on the door with recently eaten dog food. Yuck! No pix, though. She showed us what she does when she gets bored, too.

First boat ride

Near the end of April Trout Waters puts on their Customer Appreciation Days. This year I had the pleasure of representing Sage, Rio and Redington as a pro-staffer for RB Sales. As usual it was a fun day capped off by a great meal at Olympia Greek Taverna, complete with belly dancer.

Don Chatwin, owner of Moby Nets, chats with the Shimano rep

Savas was busy at the till!

Nick capturing some Facebook fodder

Will tying up one of his Atlantic Salmon fly masterpieces

An example of Will's prowess

Try as he might to be inconspicuous, Don couldn't escape...

All in all, it was a pretty good April!

Cheers! KW