The blog has been quiet for a while now mostly because weather, life, and an overabundance of water has conspired to keep me from fishing this year. I was able to take one trip in February to the Stanislaus river, our usual winter fishing location. I have written about the river quite a bit elsewhere, so I won't belabor it's charms, but we had a good half-day of fishing, and landed a few rainbows under the bridge. I also got a chance to play my new bag-pipes during lunch.