Monday, August 20, 2007

Family Summer Aptos trip




It has been a long time since the Brooks family have been to Aptos, yes the last time we were all in Aptos "we were ALL togther" if you know what I mean.



Here are few photo's from the beach



Samuel checking things out summer 2007





Katie, Lauren and Olivia at the beach in Carmel








Ben and John flippen

Emma

James
Katie and John



Sunday, August 5, 2007

John's species list



Kern river Golden trout

caught July 21, 2007

Kern river rainbow trout

caught July 21, 2007

Bonneville Cutthroat trout
caught July 26 2006

Saturday, August 4, 2007

Golden Trout Wilderness

July 18-21 the Brooks brothers went out on a search for the "most beautiful" trout the golden.We stared out in Las Vegas and as always, we had to make a few stops. The first stop was to REI for one item and the next stop was to the Bass pro shop for another; however, we managed to leave town around the time we thought we would. After the four an half hour drive to Golden trout wilderness, we arrived at the south fork of the Kern and pitched our tents in the dark (Dad had his own tent as he tends to snore and keeps everyone up.). In the morning we were able to find the river, sadly we found out the river over the last five years has suffered a lot of drought so the river was very low and we didn't have any luck in the river. We decided if we were going to catch any Golden's we needed a new river. We got a hot tip about 9 mile creek, and headed there. We hike in about 5-6miles with 3000ft drop. When we found ourselves away from civilization we were able to catch some really nice Golden's.All brothers and dad were able to catch one too.
7" Kern River Rainbow trout, caught July 21, 2007

15" Kern River Rainbow, caught July 21, 2007

9" Golden trout, caught July 21, 2007