..:: fish on ::..

Today I had the awesome privilege of joining my friend Bryan on his boat to go fishing for lake trout on Lake McDonald in Glacier Park. What a great experience!

First of all, the weather was fantastic, the lake was glass and the backdrop... breathtaking!



We were fishing with lures and down riggers and a bag full of trade secrets that Bryan knows - of which I am sworn to secrecy for all eternity, so don't even ask ;-)

Any way we weren't even out there an hour before the fish started biting... it was epic.

Rischelle and I both caught some monsters. Bryan was just playing the part of charter guide today, so he let us do all the catching.

I caught this beauty which was about a 12 pounder. Isn't she pretty?



Rischelle also caught one that was approx. 12 pounds. We didn't have anything to actually weigh them, so we just had to give it our best guess, but you can see from the pictures how nice these babies were.



Of course we released most of what we caught after snapping a few "proof" photos. We did keep this "little guy" however as dinner for the night... yes... he was tasty.

We were out on the water like 8 hours or so, and it seemed like about 3 hours. Crazy how fast time flies by when you are out fishing on one of Montana's most beautiful lakes. Yet how incredibly slowly it creeps along when you are stuck behind your desk working all day. Why is that, and why do we get five of the slow, dull boring days, and only one of the fun ones each week. Doesn't seem fair.

Anyway thanks Bryan for an awesome day, and some awesome fish!