Millarian

Just got back from another fishing trip. As I mentioned in an earlier post, this time we went to Alamo lake in Arizona. The Alamo State Park is really beautiful. The lake itself is surrounded by mountains with shades of red and purple. It is not a big lake, only about 4-5 miles, but it was nice. It is literally in the middle of nowhere.

There were only about a dozen boats on the lake so we had it pretty much to ourselves. We were fishing with crankbaits close to shore. Crankbaits are a lure that dives about 5-6 feet underwater and wiggles a lot. We had chosen a chartreuse color because that had seemed to work well at Roosevelt a few weeks ago. Between my dad and me, we caught nine fish; I caught five and he caught four. They were all small bass, around 12-14 inches and probably weighing in at about one to one and a half pounds.

I thought it might be a little cold for fishing today, but it turned out to be a great day. When we got there it was warm with barely a breeze. It clouded over a little and the wind picked up in the afternoon a little. We headed over to the far side of the lake, the direction the wind was blowing and found a cove in which some bass were biting. It seems that they were probably eating whatever was being blown up on that shoreline. We caught most of our fish there.

On the way to the lake there are two towns: Salome and Wenden. Both are small, but Wenden is by far the smaller of the two. Salome is the home of the Frogs and the town slogan is “Where she danced” (follow the link if you want to know why). Anyway, after exiting I-10 toward Salome there is a 30 mile stretch of road that has open range cattle. I have never in my life seen so many cow carcasses; the road was littered with them. You don’t realize how big a cow really is until you see it spread across a road by a vehicle traveling at over 55 mph…

We are hoping to go fishing at least one more time, possibly two, before the end of the year. My digital camera is broken, but I would love to get some photos and share them. Maybe one of me holding the state record-breaking bass?