Tuesday in Montana..the Small Fish

Another lazy day on the wake up trail....Jeff and David decided it was time to try some fishing and would take the girls...no not Wendy & Lori, they went to the SPA!!!! We boys decided we would try the stream we crossed yesterday while horsback riding. On the way down the hill, Avery shouted, "hey dad, there was soemthing back there on the hill off the road,,,it had big horns"....now Avery has become my expert deer spotter in the woods when we go skiing so I had to turn back.....we were absoutlely amazed....2 large Big Horn Sheep, one was defintely a trophie, they were about 15 yards off the road...see pics....

Anyway, back to fishing....we drove up a gravel road, found a house that looked abandoned,, and drove back thru the yard until we came with in 20 yards of the stream. We got all the rods prepared for the girls, showed them where to be and what to do...no fly fishing,,,zebco's and worms...Jeff and I began fishing and the next thing we heard "SPLASH"...laughing and laughing, then anohter then another and after about 15 minutes the girls fishing event was over and they were fully wet,,,jeans, shirts, shoes,,,you name it....we fished on....caught a few that made us happy...probably never fished more than 400 yards of the stream back and forth, caught maybe 15 , but kept 2...fun for us....the girls had at somepoint walked back to the car, had lunch, laying on the surburban, back, hood, top, even called their moms to tell them we had abandoned them because we were out of sight...from the car! Bite stopped about 4pm, so we headed back to the 4 Star Exxon and had another ice cream before heading up the mountain.

A little later that evening Jeff and I rode to the top of the point where we were staying, we found a logging road and deceided it was for us.....it took us up and up and up,,,turning around at the top was a little bit of an issue but we managed...the house of glass from yesterdays pics is actually a pic we took looking down from where we were with the best zoom we had....we figure that house to be about 20,000 Sq Ft.....Anyway, the top gave great views...

Dinner...fooseball tournament in the play room , and bed at somepoint....