Gone Fishin'!

This year is just packed with firsts for me. I went fishing for the first time yesterday. At least, it's the first time I remember. My dad may tell me otherwise if he reads this. Anyway, I went fishing with my friend, Aaron, at third dam up Logan Canyon. It was really beautiful and the weather was great, aside from a bit of a chilly breeze. Aaron taught me the basics and then let me have at it. The first time I baited my own hook and cast on my own, I caught a fish! What can I say? I'm a natural! Actually, it was pretty hard NOT to catch that guy. I was worried I wouldn't know what it felt like, but that fish just chomped down! He was a brown trout. I even held him bare-handed to get a picture and then let him go swim away.

After catching that first fish, things slowed down for a while. We moved a few times, but no fish. I even resorted to calling them: "here fishy, fishy, fishy!" No luck. So, we decided to trek back and go to a different spot across the river. Keep in mind, Aaron had yet to catch a single thing...not even a spare tire! I had a good feeling about this new spot, though.

Sure enough, in no time I had caught another three fish! It was just one bite after another. I'm pretty sure I caught 3 fish in 4 consecutive casts. These guys were rainbow trout. Apparently rainbow trout aren't as resilient as brown trout and they didn't last through the picture-taking, so we had to keep them for dinner. I felt kind of bad, especially since I don't eat fish...yucky!

Aaron did finally catch a fish. Acutally, he caught two. I was getting nervous that he might catch up, but it was about time to leave and I ended up catching another fish on my last cast.

Final count: Becky 5. Aaron 2.

And he's been fishing since he was a kid! Go me. The most amazing part of the whole experience was that we brought them home, cooked them and ate them. I can't believe I actually ate fish...I ate fish that I caught! CRAZY! It wasn't even that bad. I kind of liked it. Mind-boggling.

Other than my fishing trip, my spring break has been super lame. I have been psuedo sick. I have a sore throat and junk in my throat...ish. It's enough to make me feel yucky, but not enough that I feel the need not to do things...but I don't want to do things. Eh, I just feel lame. Even worse, I have a TON of homework this week. I have already done three lab write-ups and probably 8 hours of research. I did a couple hours the other day, but didn't know that if my session timed out it would clear everything I had saved in the folder. So, I spent today re-doing all of that and then trying to narrow down my search to about 7 articles. SO HARD. Research bites. Oh, and yesterday we found out that the huge project we did for program evaluation was only half done! I've also been helping write more of that. Oh joy. Now all I have to do is take those 7 articles, read them, develop a code sheet from them, redo my problem statement and write a literature review plan. Not to mention, read and study two chapters in my research design book (each chapter takes me a minimum of 4 hours). Spring break? Yeah right. At least the weather has been nice. I like studying on the deck in my backyard and goodness knows Riley loves to stay outside all afternoon.

I cannot write a short blog post. I'm sorry.