
My faithful readers are aware that I had a tough choice to make on Saturday. (If you didn’t see, read the post just before this one…)
Since I faced this choice when it was 10:00AM, if figured that I might have enough time to sneak both in…
The first thing that I saw when I hopped in the car was a good sign…

The fuzzy dice in the car where showing 7… since I had just come out of the house, I considered this my “comeout roll”; and seven wins the front line on the comeout roll! (Okay, enough craps references…)
When I got to the lake, I was met with an absolutely beautiful day…

I tied on my favorite bluegill fly that seems to be a killer on the stocker trout and started casting away…
It only took about 10 casts, and I managed to land a great little rainbow! So the trip was a success right off the start! Even though he was a “put and take” stocker trout, I don’t eat them; so I released him to fight another day.


To tell you the truth, the rest of the trip was pretty boring. I got a couple of more bites, but no hook ups. I later decided to jump to the main lake and try my hand at some late season bass fishing; but the only thing I caught was a single bluegill…

After a couple hours, I decided to call the day a success and head for home.
And for those of you who were curious… yes I made it to the football game to cheer on my Huskers over Michigan…

Touchdown Balloons Over the University of Nebraska’s Memorial Stadium

I got made fun of a little bit by my friends who saw the blog post about my “tough decision”; since not attending the game is not really an option and therefore was not a “decision” to make…
Either way it was a great football game, and a great way to round out a great day…
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