First Fish

We have had the boat out twice so far. The weather seems to be stuck in the 50's and the nice days are very windy. Jim managed to catch a nice trout. The meat is pink like a salmon and it was very tasty. We were also given a fresh caught "lingcod" or eelpout. I boiled it and we dipped it in butter -- poor man's lobster -- it was good.

We are fishing in Banks Lake and the sides of the lake are canyon walls. The white streaks along the walls are from spring waterfalls. We missed the actual falls -- that's when the snow is rapidly melting. Life here is a bit different with everything being a long drive. We had to go all the way to Spokane to get the trolling motor for the boat fixed. That is 180 miles round trip and when you are lucky to get 10 to12 miles to the gallon it gets expensive. There is a Walmart about 30 miles away so we are trying to stock up when we do drive that far. The good thing is there is a small grocery store here in Coulee City that sells good meat.

We are surviving the typical challenges of a new home for the summer -- finding good meat, good places to get things fixed, where to get haircuts and where there might be a good place to go out to eat. So far we haven't found much in the way of restaurants. The campground is nice so far -- not busy at all so we have it mostly to ourselves -- I should say us and another camphost couple. We work three days on and then have three days off and just keep rotating the schedule that way. We have met lots of nice local people -- who feed Jim cookies and cinnamon buns.