Trout for Dinner

Yep, that's me and two rainbow trout at Bennett Spring State Park on Monday, March 16. What?! How can you say I'm posing with someone else's fish? I caught those babies myself. In fact, I was the only one of our party of four who caught anything--and not just one trout but two. Don't they look yummy?
You may think I'm some sort of skilled fisherperson, but you'd be wrong. These two unfortunate fishies just happened to have bit my baited hook. It's great to feel that tug on the rod, followed by me yelling, Jerry help me! I love Bennett Spring, the glass-clear water, the 1930s dining lodge, the park store (where I bought a Brighton knock-off watch for $9.95 last year). To some people it's surprising that I like to fish. I'm sure surprising is not the word used by certain fishermen at the park, all decked out in their vests and waders and hats, using fancy rods and reels and gourmet bait, when they see an amateur, improperly dressed female, using a $19.95 rod, reel in two trout. The pictured fish are now headless and frozen. I hope to catch a few more soon for a smoked-trout dinner.