Once in a lifetime...

So at creative escape this year...Heidi Swapp talked about these once in a lifetime experiences...so the morning after I arrived home and I really wanted to sleep in all day.....(Just kiddin'! Maybe just 1/2 the day!) Kevin said that he and Len Mead and Tanner were going to fish the Puyallup at 5 am! Now mind you...Kevin has gone before with not much luck! But I thought to myself.....you have lived in Puyallup 11 1/2 years now, and YOU have never had this experience...and it is huge!!! (hence all the men lined up in the river....all up and down stream!!!) When Kevin invited me to go along....I think he though that I had lost my mind when I said...sure...I'd like to go!! So Tanner and I waited ( we didn't have wader's to go in ) And before too long, they both had their limit!! Kev said there were so many fish that they were hitting him in the leg as they swam on by! Not a bad day's catch I'd have to say!!

This is the big Daddy that Kev caught! They caught Silver and Pink Salmon. These guys get crazy...they yell FISH ON when they get on on their line so the other guys won't cast off their line....I wasn't too crazy about when they had to whack the fish on the head so they would stop flopping all around. Tanner warned me when that was about to happen :=<

Kevin said Tan...do you want to hold the big guy? Just then the fish started to squirm and just about got out of Kevin's grip...LOOK at Tan's face...he is cracking up!!

And Tanner finally stuck his hand in and had a good grip...but not for too long...he says~ "Dad...hurry take him...he's thinking of biting me!" Funny kid...can't wait till he get's waders and can really get in the action! It really was interesting watching how this all works...we have cars lined up for miles and miles on river road...fishermen just lined up in the river. Pretty amazing stuff here, and they take it pretty seriously!! So...now I can say I've done that one!! Even if I did want to go just for the photo's!! ha ha