Change is Good
Well, I cancelled my reservation in a campground up in northern New Mexico this week due to potential monsoons. My wife and I were planning to take two of our grandsons up for a few days of tent camping and fishing, but with monsoon season and the tragic flash floods in Ruidoso and Texas, we changed our plans. We're just not going to take a chance with the grandkids. Instead of camping, I booked a motel in my favorite little New Mexico town and we made day trips to fishing and site-seeing locations in the area. And, instead of the Tenkara rods I was going to give them for fly fishing the Rio at the campsite we originally had reserved, I packed their Zebco rods. I knew with bait rods we could sit on the bank of a pond and watch a bobber wiggle around, despite what type of weather we may encounter. I probably replaced much more bait on their hooks than I would with trout flies if they were fly fishing. That's okay....Sylvia and I had fun helping them on this little vacay. I do b...