Fishing on Trout Lake

I was standing in the boat (the one I had fixed with help) in the middle of the river/lake in the pouring rain fishing.  There is a current there so I didn't have to anchor.  I was going around and around.  On the sand bar now rising since the snow is melted almost on the mountains, was a blue heron. A little later it's mate arrived.

The skies opened up and the rain stopped.  A lovely great rainbow moved across the end of the lake reflecting on the water.  Fish were jumping in the churned up water.  It was simply beautiful.

That is why I fish!  I don't care if I catch anything, but the act of casting and having an excuse to be out there on the water looking  up the light as it plays through the mist across the hills and valleys is worth it, wet or not!

Sometimes the weather is such that one minute it is rain, the next it is sun!  You never know really.  It can be cool or it can be hot.  One never knows what the next day will bring, indeed the next minute.  Sometimes as a bonus you bring home supper, but not always, and that is ok too.

I have lost so many lures and so on I have decided to make my own. I carve the fish out of cedar and try weighting them in different places.  My first one was not a success but was a good learning experience.  I am improving with each one.  Who knows perhaps one day I will catch a fish on one I designed and made myself. That would be cool.  Until then I will just carry on and enjoy the day, the light, the mountains, the water, the fresh air, the bird and animal life.  It is worth every minute of being rained on!