Jack and I headed up to camp this past week for his first serious fishing trip.  He wanted to focus on the bass fishing so that's what we did. The streams were rather low when we arrived on Tuesday but we got over 2" of rain Wednesday night and then they were really high on Thursday.  Kezar lake was up about 4' over night and the cold river was completely flooded down in Stow.   We fished for smallmouths on Wednesday morning and were on the water by about 6:30 or so.  It was dead calm, but the fish weren't biting for us, maybe because of the coming weather or maybe in some sort of post spawn doldrums or maybe we just don't  know what we're doing. Caught a few pickerel which Jack enjoyed and lost one nice smallie.  The next morning we fished Kezar Lake in Lovell.  Arrived about 9:00 as the weather started to break and fished until 2 of 3.  Quite a few pickerel again up in the flooded grass and pads.  Couple small bass and a few perch trolling.  I kept hoping it would clear and the wind would let up for some large mouth fishing that night and it finally did.  The pond was picture perfect by about 7 and Jack got quite a few nice fish on top water baits.  He was a great fishing partner.  Said his favorite thing beyond the big bass is falling asleep at the camp with rain falling on the metal roof while Joe Castiglione calls the sox game.  

Thanks Lee.  That was the biggest fish of the day.  Don't have a scale but was thinking it was maybe pushing 5 lbs.  I didn't rig up the fly rod due the wind when we first put in and then busy guiding Jack.  It would have been a great night to fish flies for them.  Saw a few going for dragonflies. 

Very nice, I still have great memories of fishing at that age.