Seniors, Misadventures and Deer Creek Trout

A friend, Loren Brooks, sent this in. He also goes by the moniker Doctor Sebago

Chapter 1: Although we left on time (7:30 am) for a day of fishing for Rainbow Trout, things were not going just right.

The Utah State Parks, "Senior Adventure Pass" (a 12 month admittance pass for $35.00) was not in the truck, so we flipped a U and sort of took care of that.

We had traveled about 20 miles en route to the lake when the starboard trailer tire blew out and rocked the boat and it's passengers. I-80 is a busy highway at 8:00 am in Parley's Canyon. We found a wide shoulder and pulled off the road. The tool chest was not in the truck but the tool chest in the boat came in handy for the tire change. The Hilti-jack was in the Ford truck, and we were in the Dodge truck.

If you ever have to change a tire on a boat trailer be sure to have something better then what is given by Hinckley Dodge, in the form of a jack. Laying on his back, Vern Christiansen, (age 86) worked on getting the spare tire off the frame of the trailer. Lew Warner, (age 78 +) was his assistant. Reese Memmott, (age 83) scouted the hillside for a block of wood, while "Dr S" located the "Mickey Mouse" jack that comes with the Dodge truck. The block of wood came in handy.

There were two pairs of gloves in the boat toolbox, but none of us thought to use gloves. Reese dug a hole under the tire with a screwdriver, which helped in getting the tire off the trailer, but gave him a dandy blister in the palm of his right hand. (Always use gloves when digging a hole with a screwdriver.) The bad thing about the blister is the fact that Reese had a golf game Thursday at Jeremy Ranch and it could effect his swing and putting ability. Oh well, the spare tire had enough air in it to get us to Heber, Utah for a pit stop at McDonalds and a chance to clean up our hands and arms from a wrestling
match with tires.

Chapter 2: The need for speaking Spanish is becoming important. Lew Warner ordered four "Sausage Egg McMuffins" (sem's) to go, while the rest of us were in the rest room taking care of business. We are now back in the truck. When we opened up the sack to pass around the sem's, it was discovered the contents to be four burrito's. Dr. S speaks very little Spanish, but elected to tell the lovely senorita that we got the wrong order. After the exchange Dr. S., returns to the truck with the bag of sem's only to discover the bag contains four more burritos. It was concluded that no matter what you ordered you were going to get burrito's. After another discussion with the lovely senorita, we wound up eating the burrito's which turned out to be sausage egg burrito's and they were very good.

Chapter 3: By now it is 10:00 am. The Deer Creek State Park attendant acknowledged proof of our pass and we were admitted into the park. (Dr S has misplaced the 2007-2008 Senior Adventure Pass but had the receipt of purchase, which went well with the attendant. From this point forward it was one of the best days in 2007 for trout fishing. We caught 15 Rainbow Trout and kept 14. The wind failed to come up on the lake, like it usually does, in the afternoon. The weather was perfect. We used every worm in the boat to catch these big Rainbows. Thanks go out to Mark Anderson who provided the worms. That's another chapter, which will be omitted from this episode.

Vern Christiansen, had a smile on his face. His first trout was caught on a fly behind a "dodger." Then he just kept adding to the pot with big beautiful Rainbows. He also got a beautiful German brown, on a silver Sebago and worm. Lew Warner was the victim of rotten leader on the first two hook ups. After getting some new leader from Reese, he put an "equitable" share of the fish in the pot, one of which was the largest caught on this occasion. You can count on Reese for catching big fish no matter where you fish. As for the captain of this adventure, (Dr. Sebago) he did not get skunked. Thanks to Lew Warner, Dr S now has two new tires on his trailer.

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