Super Bowl with family

On Sunday, after going hiking in the morning, we went over to Peggy and Debbies' house to watch the Super Bowl and to meet their new dog Dex, Dexter, or Tucker. They have not settled on the name yet. Grandma and the dog seemed to have really hit it off with each other.

Grandma with her new friend.

The brothers watching the game together.

Hiking over the weekend

We went hiking with Jamie, Shannon, Aidan, and Landon on Saturday. We drove down to Fairfax in the Bay area and hiked Cataracts falls trail. It was a really nice hike with beautiful waterfalls. However, Maya is not a little baby anymore and the weight of carrying her almost too much for me. She is going to have to start hiking with her own two feet soon. Raquel did great with Noah.

















We stopped in Vacaville on the way home for dinner and
found some toys for Maya and Aidan to play on.

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.

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