How is this for an amazing day? Warm and sunny, no wind and we caught so many fish we had to break out the regs to see how many an underaged fisherman could keep! FUN FUN FUN
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Pathfinder once again
Sep 5
Family Reunion
Aug 3
This year is the year Gordon and Mary, Butch and Sandy and Ed and Dorothy each celebrate anniversaries 40 years or more. In celebration, we held a family reunion here in Casper.
We may start sounding redundant when we talk about taking kids out fishing and hunting and the importance of doing so.
“Passion does not arrive on videotape or on a CD; passion is personal. Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young, it travels along grass- stained sleeves to the heart. If we are going to save environmentalism and the environment, we must also save an endangered indicator species: the child in nature.— Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature Deficit Disorder, 2005
It was awesome to see Kassidy and Tristy light up as they reeled in fish after fish and contemplate touching the slimy things. By the end of the day they were measuring, weighing and discussing fish. Tristy even picked one up that had been gutted!!
Pathfinder/Boysen
Jun 23
Boysen is as low as we have seen it. We were fishing new territory this trip. It is interesting to see the lay of the land under the water we normally fish each year. ’There is that hump’, ‘I didn’t realize that little hole was right there’. Makes for a less than dull trip even if the fishing isn’t fast….Which it is was not. We still were able to pick up several walleye between Wednesday night and Thursday morning, but we decided it would be more fun to get back to Pathfinder, pick up a good friend, and look for trout. So, we loaded up in time to hit the road with lunch in the cab of the truck. We drove through Riverton and took Hwy 135. The views were amazing! It looked as is it was early May with all the snow in the high country of the Wind Rivers. We got to Pathfinder and met up with our friend Tyler. Headed to Bird Island. Picked up three nice Brown’s but not many rainbows. We then headed back towards the marina and found the feeding rainbows again feeding shallow on top in the evening. It was one after another of big rainbows! What a perfect evening of fishing 
Pathfinder fun!
Jun 17
We waited until evening to go to Pathfinder hoping the wind would die down enough to have an easier time controlling the boat. Trolling for trout is one of the funnest ways to catch fish when the action is fast. It takes teamwork and concentration to play this game! Using a kicker motor for speed and a bow mount trolling motor to steer, we drop our lines from 50 to 100 feet behind the boat and wait for the action to begin. Once a fish hits, you must get the pole out of the holder immediately so as not to lose or break off the trout. Then another person needs to kill the kicker and take over steering to make sure the other lines that are still out do not get tangled. This person also must get the net ready, these are nice big trout! Once the fish is on board, kick the motor back in gear and put out the crank bait that just landed a fish. It gets wild when there are only two people in the boat and 3 or 4 lines out and even more crazy in the wind.
Glendo
Jun 15
A lot of fishing is best in the evening and early morning. So, it is great that we have reservoirs nearby that we can get to for these bites. We got to Glendo around 3pm Tuesday and headed to a spot that has not been drowned quite yet. It is a place we know we can always catch fish when water levels are still not too high. We jigged for walleye while also dropping a smaller jig to the bottom for perch. It was a chilly, breezy night, but the fishing was quite good. We stayed until well after dark and used the almost full moon to guide us back to the ramp. We were in the water by 5am and limited out by 5:30, but we kept fishing around the lake looking for other potential hot spots for the rising depths.
Pathfinder weekend
May 16
If you spent any time outdoors on Saturday you know it was about as miserable a day as you can get in the spring. We took our friend Shane and his daughter Caitlin out early in the morning. It was Caitlin’s birthday and we wanted her to catch a big rainbow! What a day 
we froze and the fishing was not the best we have had. Of course being miserable never helps the fishermen make the right decisions about finding our prey. We did accomplish our goal, however and by 9am, Caitlin had caught a couple fish and we could get the heck out of dodge!! Sorry it was not the best day, Caitlin!
Sunday was a completely different type of day. It started out windy and cold, but not even as cold as yesterday. By 9:30 the wind died completely down and the lake was glass. We caught quite a few fish and Max learned to use the net! Crazy Wyoming weather…
The weather last Saturday and today was as perfect as weather can be for spending time in the boat. The temperatures were perfect and , you might want to sit down for this, there was no wind!
Pathfinder
Sep 25
Fall fishing has arrived. It is a little slower this time of year, but we stuck with it and were able to catch our limit today. We will be smoking these fine trout tomorrow!!