Today's adventure started much like every other. Having no idea what I was doing. Knowledge was all I was after. So I started at Goodwill, looking for anything on wild edible food. Plants specifically. Protein I have pretty well down. A lifetime of fishing and some hunting, as well and being a seafood manager and meat cutter with a local grocery store, have given me pretty good knowledge of what meat is out there for me to go after. It's the wild plants that are foreign to me.....even though they have been in my back yard for most of my life. It wasn't until just this month I learned you could eat dandelion greens.
No books at GW so off to Yeager's, the local sporting goods store to see if there were any fishing opportunities out there for the boys and I. It's Steelhead season here in the Northwest but that's hardly the place for little boys.....it's hardly the place for grown boys either. 35 degrees and raining. Frozen toes. Frozen fingers. Not sure why I love it so much. Sometimes it make me wish I was back in Georgia, where on the best days I could fish in my shorts and tshirt in Feb. Out here on the best days, I'm lucky if I can take my gortex jacket off.
So I went looking for a fishing adventure. Smelt is about the only thing open this time of year. I remember going as a little guy and loving it. Turns out that there aren't too many smelt in the area any more.....herring either. I don't know if it's poor water quality, over fishing or something else. You have to drive an hour south to find smelt. But at least I now know where to find them. And daddy can chase Steelhead on his own. And smelt maybe...just maybe...will hold the little guys' imaginations till spring when we can start after some trout.
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