With the 2007 fishing year starting to draw to a close, and reading some of the other posts with reflections on this year, I thougth I’d post the year review in photos.
This is the first summer my son and I have been fly fishing. He’s 12 and I started fly fishing with him as something we could learn together and hopefully be able to spend some quiet time together. It worked. No, he does not have the fishing passion I do, yet, but he does love to fish and it’s one of the activities where we can get beyond the “fahter / son” thing and just be fishing partners. We can talk about things on a man-to-man basis and sometimes just fish and not say anything at all. All summer, we only had one outing where things went badly and that was my fault not his. I forgot he’s a kid and got frustrated with him for being a kid and not really being serious about fishing that one day. What a mistake and I promised him I’d never do that again and have kept my promise.
So, 2007 in review:
The first fish he caught on a fly rod. Your average creek chub. This was early March:
A whopper I caught. Just for the record, my son must have freakishly large fingers. And, for the record, that dry fly is about the size of a coke can. :lol:
A very pretty warpaint shinner we caughe in the Smokey Mountains. If those fish grew to 10 or 12" I would fish for nothing else.
One of the Smokey Mountain streams we fished. You had to be a mountain goat to climb over these rocks. It was very difficult going, but we were rewarded with some very pretty rainbow trout.
Brookville Tailwaters - our local trout stream
Really big net. That Marlin I caught barely fit in this net, just to give some perspective on the size of this trout 
My son casting at Brookville
The day I forgot my wading boots (check out the shoes on that guy)
My boy being a kid looking at some butterflies on a rock.
Antother Smokey Mountain stream we fished
A pretty nice Brown I caught at Brookville
Another decent brown at Brookville
A video of my casting “style”. Click on the image to watch the show.
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One of the last fishing days of the season.
Well, that’s a sampling of the fishing this year. We’ve had a great time. Thanks for letting me share this with you all.
Jeff