The gear is getting lined up, the fishing tackle assembled and the gas tank is full. In less than 36 hours, the Great Fishing Adventure of 2007 will begin. Camping in the Rock Creek area, fishing Crowley Lake, McGee Creek and the Little Lakes Valley. Might squeeze in time at my favorite spot on Lee Vining Creek, then return to the cabin for a few more days of relaxation.

What am I looking forward to?

How’s that for an answer? (Just picture me in the foreground with a decent-sized rainbow, brook, brown or maybe even a golden trout.)

It is unknown if I will be able to post any real-time fishing reports from the Eastside, but I will report after the fact, with the obligatory photographic piscatorial proof.