Yesterday was a mighty fine day. A friend of mine had the week off work and asked me to take a day off and go fishing. How could I say no?

After a big breakfast, the destination was Anderson Lake in Morgan Hill, CA. We fired up 858's and fished about two hours and were skunked at first. Two objects flew really close over our heads:

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And this...

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The guy in the back seat waved to us.

When I'm having a bad day fishing, I live by the rule: "If at first you don't succeed, tie on a small lure and throw for little fish"

Turns out they weren't too little after all.

Bass numba one! Caught on a small green panfish tube.
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Bass numba two! Caught on a little chartreuse panfish grub. They were biting only little light stuff, and you could barely feel the strikes.
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You'll have to excuse the dorky hat tie - it was windy and I wasn't gonna lose my hat.

After fishing we ate lunch at the El Toro brewery: http://www.eltorobrewing.com/main.html I HIGHLY suggest "the Duce" beer on tap.

What was after lunch? More cigars of course! I knew there was a smoke shop in Morgan Hill but couldn't remember much about it as I wasn't sober the one time I went in it (did I mention it's right by the brewery?).

http://www.morganhilltobaccocompany.com/

This place was awesome! They have a bar in the back (beer/wine) where we sat down for some beers and cigars. My fishin' buddy had a Tat brown and he bought me a PAM! Observe!

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Outstanding!

They had chess boards there. He and I hadn't played a game of chess since highschool, but we still banged out three matches. I lost two, won this one:

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Chess, beer, and cigars went surprisingly good together after a day of fishing.

Of course after all that we went back to his house for more cigars :-)

What a damn fine day!
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Nice post and pics! Looks like you had a wonderful time!
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I've been meaning to check out that shop in Morgan Hill. It looks like you had a good time. :-)
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Dood, you were supposed to call me a slacker! :-)
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Slacker! Man what a great day, wish I was there.
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Nice!
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That is a good day.
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Looks like a great time Pete! We'll have to hear your drunken tales on Saturday. :-)
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Looks like you had a great day Pete! :-)
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Sounds like you had a great day :-)
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What more could you ask for, a day of smoking and fishing with a friend...thats it:-):-):-)
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What a great thread! You just made me think how long it has been since I took some vacation time.

Nice photos and the PAM is a great stick.

Thanks for sharing.
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And to think I had to work today. :-) Thanks for sharing.
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Looks like you had a great time. I haven't been fishing in ages, I may need to start again, your pic reminded me of how relaxing it is.
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You're the only one with those, Danny. :-)
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That looks like the perfect way to spend a day off work.:-)
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Sad yet true.
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When I came home the first thing I said to my wife was, "Today was like a vacation"... It really was for me.

I've decided I have to do something like this about once every two months.
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Wow!!! What a great day Pete!!!

Great cigar to bring it to an appropriate end!!!

Looks like a vacation to me!!!

BTW - I'm looking forward to many drunken stories Saturday at Darrell's!!!
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What an excellent day you had! :-)
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