Oil Creek State Park-Thankfully Spared

20 11 2009

Thank goodness they didn’t close Oil Creek State Park. If you have never been there you are really missing out on a beautiful park. Oil Creek is a great fishing creek that we go to often. You’ll hardly ever find a crowd there and there are plenty of trails, geocaches and great fishing spots.

My husband and I were down there twice last weekend to fish. I was still recuperating from 3 full days of sanding our hard-wood floors and I had a hard time standing for any length of time so I just sat on a folding chair and watched my husband catch 7 trout in a couple of hours. How I wished I hadn’t over-done the floor sanding!

I wanted to fish so bad that we came back the next day, Sunday, to try it again. I didn’t catch anything but cold. My husband caught 2 nice rainbow trout. Actually, I froze my tail off. But the fish were there, the conditions had changed. The sun wasn’t out on Sunday. An eagle flew down low over the creek. We love going there, fish or no fish.

I’m in the process of putting together a video of my husband catching the 7 trout on Saturday. I also had fun that day not only video-taping my husband catching fish but also taking slow-mo video of the moving current and of the minnows jumping out of the water. I’m easily amused :-) . I’ll post the video as soon as I’m done with it.