Night Snooking in FL

So if you don't know me already you need to know that I am an extremely avid fisher person, so whenever I have a chance I pick up my fly rod and am off to the angling races. Florida is no exception - actually FL is one of my favorite places to fish cause salt water fishing can sometimes be a little bit like a melting pot, you never know what you might get. Anyhow, on my fishing "to-do" list for some time now is to go Snook fishing, which can only be done in the dark of night (Snook only feed at night) which makes fishing that much more challenging, tying knots in the dark, standing on your fly line, catching your mate instead of the fish, and did I mention casting to the feeding fish and not catching the dock they are under ? Well FL 2009 I finally made it out to do some snook fishing with my Dad and vola !! - what a great time and it now going to be moved from my fishing "to-do" list to the fishing"must do again" list !!

Florida 2009

So as many of you fellow Canadians know we can have some pretty nasty winter months of weather and I don't know about the rest of you but by the time that February roles around I am so vitamin D deprived that I have to go sound a least for a few days. So once again I headed to sunny Siesta Key, Fl for a week of sun, beach, fishing and fun. The weather could not have been better, it was 85+ and sunny everyday - no complaints here !!

I am an Auntie !!

So one of the great things that happened at the beginning of this year was that my one and only sister gave birth to a baby boy ! Mr. Jack Charles Rightmyer - a beautiful 8 LB healthy boy. I am now a proud auntie and cannot wait until he grows a little bit bigger and my Dad and I can teach him our fly fishing ways.

New Car and His Expensive Winter tires...

So fall of 2007 I ended up getting myself a new car - a MINI Cooper, his name is Eddy (go ahead and make fun but all my cars end up with names) and I love him.

He was great in the winter of 2007 given that he still had his factory tires, however this winter when the white stuff arrived was a whole different story. It was like driving a car on skies, terrifying !!

So off I went to do my tire shopping, what a headache. As it turned out I ended up at BMW cause did you know that there are very few manufacturers that actually make tires for the mini cooper ? Well turns out that because of this I ended up paying through the roof for Eddy's new rubber shoes - this was the day that I met Mr Pirelli, ever met him ?

Blogger Blogger Blogger - I have not Blogged in So long, I am so sorry !

Okay, so I have not been back to my blog site in a really long time. Actually since 2006, which is when I was working at my last job. Well I am finally back and am going to be doing my best to keep my blog updated. Now that winter is over I should be back up to speed with some fun spring and summer memories of 2009 !