Adventures of the NW Troutbum

Prineville-Prineville/Ochoco Reservoir

troutbum — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 05:48:36 +0000

Fished Prineville and Ochoco Reservoirs last Sunday with some friends for a while. Had some luck at Prineville. Friend caught a couple little smallmouth bass. Then went over to Ochoco Reservior for a while and I knocked the catfish dead as my nickname is “CATFISH” ha! I was catching catfish left and right! Like usual at the place:D Then it started to cool off quickly and we left soon after that. Fun day overall though with the guys!

Boogie Man On The Deschutes

troutbum — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 02:34:00 +0000

Finally, after we got out of the house, we headed to Trout Creek…Fished the usual areas and got nothing! Only saw one Trout jump and the rest of the time NOTHING! Now for the boogie man story…..Well, we had drove up to the boat ramp area and tried fishing some faster and bigger water. It was getting dark and I was fishing close to a bend on the river. I looked back and I see a guy upstream from me…thinking that it is dad, I sneak up behind him..with him out in the water a few feet, its harder for him to hear me. So I’m sneaking up behind him in the somewhat dark, I jump behind a tree and start making noises…stomping in the leaves, shuffling my feet, then I peaked around the tree and I could see him looking in my direction…Shuffling my feet in the leaves some more, I then JUMP from behind the tree and ROAR! Looking at the guy more closely, I notice, ITS NOT EVEN DAD! The guy said something but I had no clue what! I slowly walked off and went to find the person I was looking for..HAHA!!!

Clackamas River-Trout Fishing

troutbum — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 00:57:00 +0000

Today was the exact opposite of the past couple days. Cloudy and quite a bit cooler. Fished past Carver. Started off with tons of bites aroud these big rocks and then fish on! Had it on for a few seconds and then POOF! It was gone! Started to fish my way up river, casting as I walked, and had few strikes. Came up to a tree submerged in the water, casted, and bam! Fish on! This time I got it in and was only a small rainbow at most 8″. Was hung up a ton on the bottom rocks. Lost a few flies, which made me kinda mad. lol. Overall, I fell two times and banged my knee both times, but fishing was still fun!

Garibaldi Weekend

troutbum — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:17:00 +0000

EXCESSIVE HEAT ADVISORY!!! So you know what that means? Head to the beach where its 30 if not 40 degrees cooler. So thats what we did. Was picked up Thursday evening and headed to Garibaldi to stay with Betty and Reberta at their beach house. It was so much nicer there. Fished Friday afternoon with some sandshrimp out behind the house and ended up catching 7 fish; 4 bottom feeder fish, 2 Greenling, and 1 Surf Perch. The Bottom Feeders were at most 7″. The biggest Greenling was about 13″. The Perch was like 13″-14″. Overall the beach was super! GRAND! Food was great. People were great! What more can you ask for?!!

-Above photo, 14″ Surf Perch caught on Sandshrimp.

Steelhead Fishing on the Clackamas River

troutbum — Sat, 09 Aug 2008 03:49:00 +0000

Went and fished the Clackamas River for some trout but then ended up that I was fishing for huge Steelhead. There was a deep hole way up the river that was holding a bunch of biggin’s! Couldn’t get them to strike but the small trout were sure going after the wet fly. Caught two rainbows nothing bigger than 10″, still was fun to catch them.

Deschutes River

troutbum — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 01:12:00 +0000

We went to the Deschutes River and I hooked 4. Two rainbows and two whitefish. The first rainbow was a freakin “MONSTER”. Had to of at least weighed in at 2-3lbs. Was just over 18 inches. The second one was about 17 inches. Dad finally caught one before we left and was around 13 inches or so.

PARTAAAAAYYYY

troutbum — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 21:54:00 +0000

Party starts at 8:00 tonight. Haha just kidding. The parents went to Mud Lake in Idaho for a funeral for Kathy’s mom “PUG”. Even though she was cremated they are having some sort of Ceremony for her. They come back Monday night. I’ve got to watch these ladies cats down the road and on the instructions for me it says: if cat with brown and white goes down as in dies, call these people for euthanasia. Then it said something else with the other cat because its getting old. I have to carry it down the stairs because it starts to breathe heavily after coming down stairs. The owners are worried about it. So great these cats are gonna die on me!!! Hopefully not. Or else its gonna be crazy calling all these people for euthanasia or whatnot!

Basketball

troutbum — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:06:00 +0000

Well, played some basketball up at the local park and of course I BOOSTED up my record of 16-4 to 18-4. Today it seemed like dad was making a lot more shots than usual, so the games remained super close on each game.

Road Trip

troutbum — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:24:00 +0000

We drove down to San Antonio, Texas, to see
my brother graduate from Lackland Air Force
Boot Camp. Going one way was about 2,300
miles and after that we continued on to
Arkansas to see family. Entire trip was about
5,500 miles in all. But was worth it to see
Geoff graduate and to see family and scenery
along the way.

Geoff “Bulldog” Pratt

This is where Geoff stayed at during his fun stay.

I believe this was the University Of
Mexico in San Antonio, Texas.

This was at the Alamo right in the heart of Downtown San Antonio. These ladies were doing “who knows what?!”but it was funny to take the picture. NOTICE the lady in the pink is looking over at me thinking, why is that guy taking pictures of us!!! HAHA…O Well.

Athletic Activity Day

troutbum — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 05:22:00 +0000

Started the day off at about 1 p.m. and went down to the church . We hit some golf balls in the large field. Some of them went really far and we were afraid that they were gonna hit the cars driving by. We had Buddy and Racecar with us in hopes they would chase the balls and bring them back and also get some excercise. But Buddy was runnin’ around in front of me and eventually laid down and offfffff courseeee and I knew it was going to happen, I hit Buddy in his forearm. He went crazy. Whining and doing circles. But it didn’t appear it was broken or anything. He was ready to chase the ball right after the incident. He still is limping though. We were hittin’ some of the balls about 150 yards but then there were some that only plopped right in front of me. Once we hit about 150 balls, we had to pick them all up, which was sooooo much fun.NOT! After we picked all the balls up I noticed that I was getting a blister so I popped it. That wasn’t fun, nor was it a very good feeling. I put some antibacterial stuff on it and HOLY COW, I WAS FREAKIN YELLING!! It was stinging so bad! Later on we played basketball and I defended my title of the UNDEFEATED! 7-0. Played some tennis after that and it was pretty fun but we were not doin’ so well at hittin it back and forth. Tomorrow we’ll see what it holds.