Well, here we are in beautiful Pine Grove. It is located in the foot hills of the Sierras and is a really pretty little town. It is kind of clustered here with Sutter Creek, Jackson, and Plymouth. We are parked in our friends yard, Rick, Pat and John Richardson. Rick and Pat are in their 80s and just the best folks you would ever want to meet. Pat is very spry but Rick is starting to show his age. John is their son. He and Barry were in Nam together and have remained good friends all these years. John lives with his parents and works at the Indian casino here. We have been getting a little fishing in. We are proud to report that we DID catch some CA trout!. We fished the Meculumne River but to no avail but then we went to Bear River Lake and we did catch some rainbow there. Lake fishing is pretty different for us but we really enjoyed it. These rainbow look a little different than what we are used to. Not as much color and bigger spots. They bit the same tho! Then yesterday we went to Sacramento and fished the American River, which pretty much runs through the city. It was pretty amazing, we didn't even feel like we were in the city while we were on the river. It is a pretty large river and the king salmon were starting to run. We saw some but didn't hook into any, rats! We were actually fishing for steel head, but didn't get any of those either. We had a great time though, all the same. Went to a park area that was recommended by the flyshop, then a fisherman told us another good place to fish, so about 5:00 we went to that one. Went about 10 miles, took us about 30 to 45 mins, due to 5:00 traffic and ended up on the other side of the river from where we were fishing in the first place! Yikes, didn't we feel silly! On Sunday we took John's hot rod and Wayne and Frank and Katie joined us with theirs and we drove to Sacramento in the old cars. It was very fun. Went to the flyshop and then to a bar and goofed around. We did have a great time. Today we plan to go back up the mountain and fish some streams.
We will be here until Nov. 6th, then we will go to Bethel Island to visit friends. Barry graduated from high school with the guy. Then we will head for TX for Thanksgiving. OK, so that about brings you up-to-date. The weather is grand, and the company wonderful, so we are just hunkered down for a while. Later
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