Home to Greenbelt - time for rest!

Hannah and I spent an extremely restful two weeks in Greenbelt - so restful in fact that during the course of a few days out of our two weeks I wore my sheepskin slippers all day. Hannah and I caught up on our favourite TV series Dexter as well as the series Entourage, which is based on my best friend Nick Hodge’s life.

Jenifer spoiled us a few times and took us out to eat at some great restaurants. We spent the rest of our days reading, watching a bit of telly, playing with Callie and playing disc golf.

Hannah’s friend Morgan and her man, Darren came to stay for a night while driving from California to Massachusetts. We finally got meet her mystery man whom we had all heard so much about! He scored 39 on our 43 point check list. 4 points are always held in reserve on a first impression!
It was great to catch our breath and it also gave us plenty of time to plan…Operation Cross Country!

Fishing report
I have been fortunate enough to befriend Harry who I met at Bass Pro. Harry is retired at the healthy age of 51 and works one day a week at Bass Pro to take advantage of the employee discount. Harry took me fishing on the upper Gunpowder for wild browns. The gunpowder is a heavily fished river, but for good reason. The river has been well looked after and the trout although educated can get up to 5 lbs. With winter starting to kick in, the morning was clear but very fresh. There was a hatch of mayflies around mid morning. The pools came alive with rising trout. I caught a brown on a small adams. Between Harry and I, we had loads of takes, but the browns would spit it out before the hook could be set. It would have been frustrating, if it wasn’t amazing to see. I managed to get two more browns from faster runs using a team of a dry fly and nymph dropper.

We also spent a day on the Morgan Run river. The river is a free stone river with incredible pools and runs. It was very fresh in the morning when we arrived. Gloves were a life saver! The river level was extremely low and very clear. We didn’t see many trout which was unusual. I finally decoded a 9 inch rainbow. After not seeing many trout, we decided it was time for a pint and some lunch!