Braden Wells' Fishing Friends

 This week was our final week on the project so we decided that we wanted to do something bigger than we had done the past three weeks.  We couldn't think of what we should do, until my dad suggested we stay at my family's cabin on the Metolius River for a few days, which we thought was a great idea.  We had planned everything out during our fishing trip last Friday so all we had to do this week was shop for our food and go on our trip.  We spend one night out at the cabin, from Wednesday to Thursday, and we went fishing a lot, but sadly we had no luck.  While out there we also just got to chill for a while, bonding through playing games such as Uno, sitting around the campfire, and making a massive breakfast.  Overall it was a super fun trip, even if we failed our main objective of catching fish. Our Breakfast consisting of scones, yogurt, hash browns, tater tots, eggs, bacon, and sausage.     This week we also talked to Dr. Jeffry Gottfried, a b...

     This week of our senior project Kellen, Jed, and I began to learn some new skills to apply to what we learned the past two weeks.  The main thing we worked on this week was learning how to tie flies, my dad had a bunch of old fly tying supplies, and Kellen's family had some as well.  Using these supplies we spent Tuesday and Wednesday learning how to tie different flies using youtube and some helpful advice from my dad.       Over these two days, we spent a lot of time testing different things to make our flies look good, from using different hooks, to different strings for wrapping, to different feathers for the tufts on the ends of the flies.   In the end, I had made two flies that I thought were really good flies, and Jed and Kellen each had their own flies that they tied so on Wednesday, we planned two fishing trips for the rest of the week.  On Thursday we planned to go out to the Clackamas again in the same spot we f...