fishing at trial lake

This is Trial Lake in the Uinta mountains. We headed up there with Eric to do some fishing. Unfortunately, the fishing wasn't that great on this trip -- everyone managed to catch at least one fish, but the ones we caught were small, so we threw them back in the lake. We spent a lot of time waiting for a bite.



Finally! Jacob landed a fish big enough to keep! David helped him get it off the hook.
Wahoo -- proud fisher boy!
David and Sarah took Jacob's fish and put it on the stringer and then left it down in the water with some rocks holding the stringer in place. Sometime during the next half hour or so, the fish came back to life and managed to get itself, with the stringer still attached, back out into the lake! We saw it out there swimming around and it refused to be caught a second time. Yep, the big one that got away! Jacob was a bit disappointed, but it makes a great little story.

Mark helped Matthew hold the fishing pole for awhile and then...
ta-da! He caught a little fish!
Mark also helped Zach take a turn with the pole.
What a day for relaxing on the rocks hoping for a nibble.
Eric provided the kids with Airheads.
Jared managed to reel in this little guy. He tried to throw the fishy back, but he didn't want to live, so Jared decided to use him to complete his fishing merit badge requirements.

Yes, gut the thing to prepare him for cooking & eating.
After fishing, we stopped at Provo River Falls to have lunch before heading home.

Its too bad the fishing wasn't better, but it was a really fun day anyway!