George the Second

So many of you may have heard the story of George the First... but I'm going to tell it again anyway....
I caught George up at Gaylor Lake in Yosemite about 5 years ago and a friend of ours cleaned him and we didn't eat him right away so put him in the fridge in our trailer and didn't eat him and put him in our fridge at home... and he is still there.

So back to George the Second... I caught him this year at the same Gaylor Lake and brought him back to camp, determined to eat this one. I went around camp asking people to help me clean him and got a quick lesson from an experienced fisherman and then I went to the cleaning station and did it myself... if you dont know what cleaning is, this was quite a challenge for me because its where you cut out the guts and head so it will be good to eat also the skin of a fish is really sticky/greasy/nasty but I made it through although I once dropped him in and got my sweater a bit wet in the retrieval process but got him out. And the same night some other campers were having a fish fry and I was able to stick mine in as well and eat him. Overall a very fulfilling experience... and tasty.