Christmas shopping with Maya

Little Truckee River

Recently I was lucky enough to find the time to go fishing again. It sure is tough trying to keep up with my fly fishing addiction with a toddler and newborn at home. It had been more than a month since my last fishing day. I left for the day with my favorite fishing partner (Foxy) not knowing where exactly I would fish but decided to try the Little Truckee first. I caught my first fish after just 15 minutes on the water on a brown San Juan worm. The next fish came on a black micro mayfly. Both fish were Brown trout between 16 and 18 inches long. Other than those two fish the day was pretty slow. I am not complaining though, the L. Truckee is a really tough place to fish, you have to really know what your doing. So I feel pretty good about the two fish. I did see a monster brown which was at least 26 inches but could not convince him to take my fly. The water was extremely low and the fish were super spooky. I managed to spook several large (20"+) browns throughout the day.

Second brown. Check out the micro mayfly in his upper lip.

Apple Hill

Raquel and I took Maya and Foxy up to Apple Hill for one last trip before Noah came home. We had a great time and the weather was perfect.

Truckee River 10-4-09

I hit the Truckee one last time before Noah came home yesterday. It was a really tough day. The weather was cold, and stayed cold all day long. It even snowed on me. In fact at one point it was almost blizzard conditions. Well, it should be no surprise then that the fishing was pretty slow. In fact for the first four hours, not even a bite. It was after I finally accepted that I was going to get skunked and started heading back to the car that I decided to try one last hole. On my second or third cast, I got a hit, set the hook, and caught the first fish of the day. I have never been so happy to catch a wild 9 inch fish in my life as I was with this one. I caught him on a size 20 orange zebra midge. A couple of casts later, I caught a 16 inch rainbow on a size 6 October caddis.

More photos of Noah

Noah Tucker born 9-23-09 at 10:54am and weighing 4lb, 1oz

The end of summer

Well, this is the last week of summer for me. Where did it go? It seems like I just went on summer break a few days ago. What have I been doing? Well, probably what most would expect and definitely not what I would have expected. This summer has been very different than what I would have envisioned.

Just a few days after school let out for the summer, Raquel and I went to Kaiser for another ultra-sound and found out that we are expecting a baby boy this time. His name is going to be Noah Craig Tucker. Right after the appointment we went to Las Vegas to spend time with Mom and Mike. While in Vegas, Raquel and I celebrated our anniversary by spending a night on the strip at the Luxor. It was only the second night of Maya's life since coming home from the hospital that she did not spend the night with us, the first was last years anniversary which was also spent on the Las Vegas strip. As our stay in vegas was coming to an end, Raquel received a call from her Mom saying that she didnt feel well. Raquel had her brother taker her to the emergency room. It was discovered that she had a bad heart valve and that she also had a heart aneurysm. She went into surgery to have the valve repaired and have the aneurysm removed. Thankfully, the surgery was successful. The recovery time from such a surgery however is a few months which meant that Raquels mom would have to rest as much as possible and would not be able to watch Maya at all in the summer. In fact we feared that she might not be able to watch Maya for the rest of the year. Luckily, her recovery has been much better than expected and we are hopefull that she will be able to take care of Maya by the end of August when I am in school and when Raquel is working.

Towards the end of June, I made a trip out to Colorado to attend my brother Robby's wedding. On the day that I arrived, Robby had set up a game of golf at a really nice course. I had played golf only a couple of times before and that was many years ago. I was terrible. But I did improve quite a bit by the end of the 18 holes. It was a lot of fun, maybe I will start playing at some point. Unfortunately, this was the same day that Michael Jackson died. I was really shocked by the news. On Saturday the wedding took place. It was wonderful, could not have been better.

As far as fishing goes, I really didnt get to fish much, only three times all summer. I am used to fishing at least three days a week during the summer. With Raquel's mom recovering from surgery, taking care of Maya was my full time responsibility this summer. I miss fishing a great deal but Maya and I had a great time together.

In July, my Dad got married on the 4th in Lake Tahoe on the Tahoe Queen ship. It was also a really nice wedding and we did get to view the great fireworks show from the ship after the ceremony.

Also in July, Robby, Oriana, Mom and Mike came to California to go on an Alaskan cruise from San Francisco. We were supposed to be on that cruise with them, along with Jamie and Shannon but the girls got themselves pregnant which canceled the plans. However, we were able to take our annual trip up to the Oregon coast to Lincoln city. We had a great time once again. I wish that I could live on the Oregon coast.

Photos from Oregon.

Robby's Wedding

Dad's Wedding





The few fishing photos of the summer

Truckee river 5-26

Headed up to the Truckee river right after school yesterday. Started fishing at about 5:15 with Tanner. Caught several nice fish.

Another Tucker!!!!!

Yes, that's right! We have another Tucker on the way. The due date is 11-4-2009.