Visiting Friends in Lewiston, Shopping In Clarkston and Crawfishing in Wildcat Creek

Saturday September 25, 2021 Troy Oregon

Visiting day

We were headed to Lewiston Idaho, today to visit some friends of Marty’s that moved up here about a month ago. It was about an hour and a half drive to get to their place headed down  river along this road.river

 

And along this road that goes through a lot of farming areas. Winter wheat and hay  mostly.road2

 

We made it to their new place and did some visiting here in the carport.house3

 

Goat Girl

Their little girl and the goats got along well.goatgirl4

 

She likes playing with them.goats5

 

Nice barn

He has a nice barn up on the hill behind his house where we went up and checked it out.mat6

 

They were expecting a load of hay while we were there and it showed up and needed loading into the barn.hay7

 

They had a couple young lads to unload the hay and do the work while we watched.barn8

 

Load of weeds

Then they loaded up this big pile of weeds that got pulled up shortly after they moved here. They were taking them somewhere to dump them.weeds9

 

Shopping time

Around 3 we said our goodbyes and headed downtown Lewiston and over to Clarkston across the bridge in Washington to shop at a WallMart for some stuff to eat and some fishing tackle for Marty.

Headed home

We gassed up and headed back towards Troy back up the Grande Ronde River on this road. My windshield is a bit dirty, eh.road10

 

The plan

Our plan was to drive on up the river to Wildcat Creek and put the crawdad traps in the water and find a camp spot down river a bit.

Crawfishing

We made it to Wildcat creek and parked here and set the crawdad traps up and I put them in the water.traps11

 

This is the pool I set the two traps in for the night.creek12

 

Marty watched as I did the hard work playing in the creek. :O)marty13

 

Camp spot

After all the driving we did today we were tired out so I suggested we camp just a little ways down the road in this turn out as we need to check the traps in the morning anyway. This isn’t a main road so there won’t be much traffic tonight if any.camp14

 

We had some dinner and sat around shooting the bull in the dark until the night chill came in when we retired to our rigs for the night.

Nice day.

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Marty Catches Fish and We Eat Fish For Dinner

Friday September 24, 2021 Troy Oregon

Lazy day

Woke up here at Grizzly Flat this morning to a fine daycamp

 

Marty tried his hand at fishing in the Wenaha River by our camp.fishing2

 

He caught this one trout and that was the only one so far, but it was a start.fish3

 

There’s lots of wild turkeys running around here most of the time.turkeys

 

I went into Troy to post the blog and Marty tried the river fishing at Troy with no luck.

I was having a hard time posting the blog because of not so good internet so I said I’d meet Marty back at camp a bit later once I got the blog posted.

All smiles

When I returned to camp here, Marty had a big smile on his face as he finally  had some luck fishing, catching a small trout and two larger fish about twenty inches long that made his day and now I had a trout for dinner too.camp7

 

He returned the larger fish to the river as it was more fish then we needed.

I cooked my fish in butter and ate it. Very good fresh trout.fusg5

 

And here’s the one Marty caught and ate.dinner6

 

Later in the day we moved the camp spot a bit so we could get some morning sun when we got up the next day and Marty got ready to try fishing again.vans7

 

He fished some more with no luck.fishing9

 

This is our camp spot for the night.camp10

 

Gnats

Right now it’s dark and I’m having a problem of little tiny gnats getting into my van at small cracks and getting all over my bright computer screen so I have to finish this quickly  so I can get the bright lights out or they will soon overrun me.

We are headed to Lewiston Idaho tomorrow to do some visiting.

Nice day.

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