To fish. And that's what I did. Just blew off all the house/yard/garden work and fished. Fished for shad Wed and Thursday. It was great. Met some high quality people, caught a lot of fish. Saw a striper stalking around a huge school of shad.

On Friday I had had enough of crowds and hit the canyons. Fishing was ok, more like mid June than early May. It felt good to escape for a day into the places I'd fished most of my adult life.

Blew out my old Simms wading boots in the canyons. Right one separated from the sole on the walk into the first canyon, then the other one on the way into the second canyon. I guess when the time comes it comes.

All stiff this morning but I ain't as young as I used to be. I'm also not as old as I'm gonna be, so I better do it while I still can.
Ed

P.S. ....I'll be buying some new wading boots this week.