This years "deer hunt"

For almost my entire working life, I would take a vacation around the general deer hunt. I wouldn't always have a tag, but would come anyways to help family with their hunt and most importantly, spend time with family and good friends. I guess it is just something in my biological clock. Well, this year for a variety of reasons, the buddy I do most of my big game hunting with and I decided to just buy a point for general deer. I didn't draw any other tags, so no hunting for me this year. Nevertheless, I still decided to take a few days off this week like I normally would.

Here is how my "hunt" went.

The first day, I wrestled this fish onto the float tube.



I went ahead and kept it. I still have mixed feelings about doing it, but it provided 3 nice packages of red meated goodness.





The next day, the fish were a little smaller, but were a bit prettier. I never tire of chunky fall brookies.









The next day, I spent the day doing stuff with my wife and family. Sorry, no pics.

Then my brother and I tried to hike to the top of the world. Well, the top of a certain part of the Wasatch range. ;-)



Anybody fish here before?



And higher yet.





This was not something I would expect to find at 10,300 feet on October 15th.



Finally, I stopped by the stream for a couple hours on the way home. These pictures were taken specifically for Garyfish.;-)





Good luck to all you guys heading out on the hunt this week. May you find what you are looking for.