Green River Overlook

Well it's not really a known overlook, but I couldn't think of anything better to call it. Rick and I found this place on one of our outings during the deer hunt. The Canyon walls where so steep that I couldn't stand up and look through the bino's at the same time. Rick and I also traveled through a real big canyon that had us worried about a flash flood the whole time, because there is nowhere to go. The walls are so high you can't see the tops without putting your head out the window. After we made it out of the canyon we pushed a few areas looking for deer. No luck there but we did push out this nice 5x5 Bull Elk.

Ready to GO!!

Today was way busy for me but everything seems to be falling into place for my Deer Hunting trip to Flaming Gorge. I had a Flag Football game in the morning. The other team didn't have all their players so I filled in and helped out. Had a pretty good game finally was able to catch a few passes. I had my team color still on, so I had fun playing games and trying to get my real team to throw the ball to me. It was a good time. When I got home I got a hold of Hollis H. (He's a stud by the way for letting me barrow his four wheeler). I jogged down to his house to pick it up so I could just drive it back, and man my body is tired. I hope this hunt goes easy and I can find a deer without having to put in to many miles. I have been pushing my training pretty hard and all my joints are feeling it. Mindy made me some lunch while I mowed the lawn. Man do weeds grow fast or what!!! I'm sick of weeds!!! This afternoon Rick and I went over to the gravel pit and shot our rifles. My weapon of choice this year is a .270 while, Rick is going to use a 30-06.We are both right on the money and shouldn't have any problems hitting a deer. We had some targets over at the pit that look like chickens and pigs. We had some fun setting them up like the chickens where holding the pigs hostage, and we had to save the pigs by only shooting the chickens. Pretty fun little game. I think we will have a good time out hunting, I just hope Mindy can handle the three little boys. She already told me that she is going to get a new camera out of this deal. I think it would be better for all the sales around Christmas, but what do I know? I'll post about the hunt when I return.

Wednesday 6/25/08.
I had gotten back from Texas on 6/23/08, went into work on the following day. Jason Rawls asked if I wanted to go to pine view and enter a tournament for Tiger Muskie on Wednesday. I figured it had been a whole two days since my last fishing trip so what the heck why not?
We headed out from his place about 5:30 a.m. which ironically is the same time we leave for work. By seven we were on the lake also kind of funny because that’s when we have our morning meeting to find out our daily tasks at work, we had ours on the boat dock. Fished around a little and had fun talking and telling stories about other fishing trips. Rawls let out a yell! He had just seen the first Tiger of the day it had followed his lure in but didn’t take.
Shortly after I had one on my line and Jason's got the net he scooped it up, and handed me a leather glove I looked at the fish and told Rawls to lip that sucker. “You lip him!” was his reply. At that point the fish turned his head while opening its mouth. I then knew why Rawls didn’t want to stick his hand to close to a Muskie’s teeth. We were all giddy because the boat had seen its first Muskie. It was 25" on the nose.
Jason then hooked a good one it ran straight down into the deep tangling itself around some structure. Jason had told me a story earlier in the day about on of the guy’s in the tournament that had dove into Grantsville Reservoir to free up a stuck anchor, so then we discussed diving in and trying to untangle the line other options included dropping the anchor and using the rope to guide me down to the bottom to pull it loss. Both ideas didn’t seem too bad in only 15ft. of water but I really didn't like the idea of Muskie teeth and dark water. After steering the boat in circles and tugging from every possible angle I had a brain storm. I started throwing the anchor in past his line and dragging it back toward me. We had did this a dozen or so times when I looked around us and seen what I thought was a sunning carp on the water about 10-20 yards away from us. We both then realized it was a Tiger and pretty good sized at that. I told Jason to hold on for awhile and that I was going to cast in front of it a couple times. The fish didn’t respond to the lure and was acting kind of sluggish. Then the second light bulb, It was Jason’s fish. Somehow between the anchor and the tugging we had worked it off the hook. Jason used the trolling motor and went towards it with net in hand. The fish swam deeper into the murky water but Rawls long arms reached down and scooped it up. He was excited! Turned out to be 29 1/2” long and was quit tired after the fight but Rawls did his magic and worked it back to life and off it went.
We continued to have a good time eating snacks and sandwiches often getting calls from work asking questions it was shaping up to be a great day not even noon and two great fish. We had tried a few different baits up to this point. Rawls had even worked a rattle trap we found hung up in the trees. He told me to use what ever I wanted in his tackle box, so I snooped around for something that might catch the big one. From the radio static we could understand we figured Rawls fish was in second place to a 40” that another boat had caught. We needed a big one if we wanted the purse. Rawls dug into a bag and pulled out a crack bait that looks just like a crappie about 3” long and pretty hefty. I through it out a couple times trying to get it to look like a small fish. We both chuckled about it because the splash it made was larger than an Olympic Diver would make.
“The guy at Sportsman’s Warehouse told me if he was fishing for Muskie’s this is what he’d us.” Rawls told me.
I played with it for a couple casts it was hard to get the speed right so the action looked like a real fish. On the next cast after the tsunami had passed, WHAM I had another one on. By now he had landed a few and got this one in with no problem. 25” again I think this fish is following us around. We laughed are heads off at the idea this actually worked not more that 15 cast’s and the Crappie had taken blood.
The day passed by with a lot of casting and a few snags. The Crappie lure got caught up on a branch and after tugging to hard I ripped it in half. It now looks as if Jaws took a chuck out of its rear end. I think Rawls needs to make a plaque that says “Have I got a story for you” and mount it on it.
We moved across to the other side of the lake only after fishing the shore line that had the two pieced sun bather laid out on it. The other side turned out to be a good choice. It was a nice set up with lots of cover and nice structure to cast around. I hooked a nice small mouth bass shortly after getting there. We then worked the shoreline making some picture perfect casts and not letting one hole pass by us. We where coming up on a point and Rawls mentioned how he liked the look of it. He let his line rip and placed his secret lure right in the honey hole. You guessed it “FISH ON”. This one was a little trickier to get into the boat the wind was pushing us hard into the shore and the trolling motor was running low on juice, but we overcame and got it in another 25”.
After starting back down the shoreline I placed a cast parallel to the bank about three feet out from some reeds. Me lure was about five feet from the boat when a flash of light went past it, shot he missed it! Rawls told me to let the line out and just let it sit. After waiting a couple seconds I started to retrieve again and BAM the fight was on. I guess this is a common technique for Muskie’s that miss the lure. Rawls pulled up the trolling motor and started to outboard driving us into deeper water. The wind was just tossing us around too much and he didn’t want to hit any structure while trying to land the fish. I had the fish about 10 feet from the boat when he lifted his head and shook the hook right out of his mouth. I was bummed out. We checked the clock and had about an hour before having to go back to the dock and meet back up with everyone. We decided to go try that same shoreline one more time.
The wind was still blowing and the motor was on its last leg, when we came up to Rawls point again I tossed my line in and started reeling. My line tightened and another fish was trying to get lose. I worked him in fast because I didn’t want another one to get off. He was a good on the first time the net came up with him his tail was out of one side and his head out the other. I was scared he was going to get away, but Jason is a pro and scooped him up. 31” long and really nice colored.
We headed back toward the boat dock to check in. It was still kind of early and the wind calmed down so we fished along an area by the dock, Rawls had one follow him right in by the boat. He didn’t notice it in time and when he engaged the trolling motor it took off. We meet back up around 4:00 pm and they handed out the prize money. First place was 40 ½” and second was 40”. After talking with the other boats we found out we had caught the most the next closest had caught four fish, but they had three people. Rawls took some time to say bye to his friends and then we headed home, but not until he talked his way out of a ticket for his boat being unregistered. In the parking lot he stopped and took some pictures of a moose.
Well it might not surprise you but he left the lake around 5:40 pm which is the same time we leave work. Then to top off the day I walked through my door at 7:00 pm which just happens to be the time I get home on most work days. I have to say that I love my job, but if I could do this four days a week life would be Great.
Thanks Rawls for the good times and the great stories we’ve made.

How It all started

Hello,
Well this kind of seems a little less than manly. I had to start my own blog because I have a lot of rants and ideas that would of crowded my families page. There must be something to this, because there has been at least three night that I've woke up to Mindy reading blogs on the computer when she should be sleeping. Some might wonder about my Blog name? This dates back all the way to third grade when Spencer Loveless and I learned what Embalming meant. He told be that when we got older we would open a morg. and call it "Palmer's Embalmers". As I grew up I found a sport that was just getting started called MMA (UFC), I told myself that my fight name would be "Robbie The Embalmer Palmer". Then while serving a mission in Nova Scotia I made a great friend (Joshua Grey) who's family owned a morg. in New Zealand. When I told him my Fight name, he agreed 100%. Speaking of MMA? Free fights tonight on Spike T.V..
Here are my thoughts:

Bisbing vs. Leban = Bisping will be the better striker, and will most likely win, but Leben has a crazy chin and can take a lot. His only chance is to knock out Bisping. If it goes to the ground Bisping has the advantage in my book, some might disagree but he just hasn't had to show it yet.

Jardine vs. Vera = This one I'm thinking Vera if he shows up to fight. If he comes out the way he has in his last two fights he'll find himself in Chuck Lidell's position of having to watch reruns of Jardine beating him while knowing he should of never lost the fight. (nothing against Jardine He's a stud, I was able to go and grapple at the same gym he trains at while I was in New Mexico COOL PLACE! Greg Jackson is one of the best MMA Trainers in the world.)

There are a lot of fights on the card most unknown fights so I can't really base my opinion about them off of stats alone.

See that is a good example of why I needed my own page?

Last Sept. Nate and Kami surprised me by getting me and Nate tickets to UFC 76 "Knock Out"
The promoters named it this in hopes that every fight would end in a knock out. Since then I have had a drive to compete in something ,but MMA does have some draw backs? For instance I still have to provide for my Family, so what happens if you get caught and break something like a leg or a jaw? Losing a job over a Hobie isn't really smart. Second by nature I'm not really a mean person. Wrestling was o.k. because you can beat people up and hurt them but you don't have to hit them until there eye's roll back into their head or the ref. pulls you off. Third people's perception of the sport? People have a hard time seeing anything but "human cock fighting". This is unfortunate because it really is a true sport with the most highly of trained athletes in the world. I think people see boxing and think it's safer because of the gloves they wear. Well statics speak for them self, other than last year the only other fighter to ever die was in an unsanctioned fight in Ukraine. Boxing, Football, Hockey, Nascar lose people all the time. I think if my Bishop was a boxer people might not see anything wrong with it, but If he was a MMA fighter it might cause some problems. To avoid this I'm going to compete in a submission tournament down in Orem on the 15th of Nov.. My good friend Craig Salazar was coming over and teaching me a lot and helping progress, I think he's really helped me get going in the right direction. I like the transition form wrestling to submission grappling. Most of the moves can be used in both sports ,but I know a good submission grappler could beat a wrestler almost every time. My friends from work have been helping me also. They take turns beating me up, a new person jumps in every 1:30 min. that way I'm always getting a fresh person to grapple with. I use to think I could do anything for 15 min. ? Well try that and you'll think twice. I still have Wednesday night's open for Grappling. We start @ 7:30 and go for about 1 1/2 hrs. call if you want to come over.