A great day on the Delta.



I am glad to say that today is day four, Friday of round seven ,usually a hard day and I am feeling pretty good. The first four day's of each round are steroid days and I usually feel mentally whacked as well as physically rough. So far I am feeling O.K.

I spent the last couple of day's hanging with cousin John. Wednesday I just hung out in John's garage as he was working on his neighbours boat trailer. John and Don did all the work and I just sat around and played with the dogs ( I brought my my dog Shelby over to play with Bear, John's dog)It felt good to be out of the house enjoy friendship and getting to do guy stuff.!

Thursday was a great day. I got unhooked from my infusion bottle(always a good thing) and I went from the infusion center straight to John's house and picked him up in Babyblue(my hotrod truck) and John drove us out to Holland Tract Marina where he births his beautiful 30ft, Trojan boat. It is a dream boat. Flying bridge, fabulous cabin, great back deck, full canvas and twin motors. We are talking styling!!! We slipped out of it's birth around 10:00am and cruised out to John,s favorite fishing spot. John let me have the helm on the out bound leg . It's a thrill being up on that flying bridge looking over the bow and cruising such a beautiful craft. We anchored up and set about fishing off the back deck. Sitting in nice chairs, drink in hand or in the refrigerator, gently swinging on the anchor. I do enjoy fishing with John, he just loves fishing and gets excited every time he put is line in the water. He is just fun!! I brought leftover pot roast and taters for lunch which John warmed up in the micro wave and we grubbed up pretty good around noon and took a small fishing break at slack water. Shortly after lunch the tide changed and the fishing began again. We pulled anchor around 2:00pm because we ran out of bait. We fed the little strippers mostly but John caught a couple 16 inchers. Keepers have to be at least 18 inches. Maybe it is a good thing we ran out of bait or we might still be out there.!! I am looking forward to my son Curt's visit which is comming up in a couple of weeks, We are going out with John and hopefully Andrew for a fishing trip on the that beautiful boat. That is the start of the fall stripper run. Maybe we will get the big one!!!