Day 27: Fishing at Hebgen Lake

Good fishing music: Sufjan Stevens, Bat For Lashes, and Foals.

Today was a rest day, but somehow I still got a good 3 hours of cycling in. I offroaded it about 9 miles to get to some potential fishing spots. I ended up literally dragging my bike along the beach, but found a good spot.

So no fish, but something that will last longer, a fishing tale! This is my first so I’ll have to work on it.

I spent most of the day without much luck. No bites, not even a howdy doo. The pelican was gulping them down over in the middle, I knew they were there!

So I finally saw that something was gnawing on my worm. I put a new worm on and threw out the line yet again. Almost immediately, Bam! There was something on my line!

I freaked out. I was so excited, and had no clue really what to do next. So I did what I do in Zelda, reel it in, play with it, reel it in. While I’m doing that I’m saying things like ‘oh my god’, ‘holy crap’ and ‘fucking christ’.

I get it maneuvered over near the shore and I get a look at it. Now in zelda I’m very happy catching the smaller fish. I think the lady in the fishing shop put my longest catch, eighteen inches, up on the wall. This non-video game fish is probably like TWENTY inches!

It’s a massive rainbow trout! I look at it and I’m starting to wonder if I need to club this thing to death or something. The fish decided for me my next action. It took one look at this guy at the end of the line and quickly summed up my fishing experience. It could tell from my slack-jawed awe that I was not worthy. With a quick flick it broke my line. He was just toying with me.

It’s true, I’m not worthy of that fish. It wouldn’t have gone on the zelda fishing shop wall anyway.