6/18/2010 When you are flying to King Salmon there is something very reassuring about watching your bags go into the cargo hold of the airplane while you sit there waiting to push back from the gate. There mine were first the big red dry bag, then the big black duffel of fly tying stuff and [...]

There’s something special about stepping into a trout stream for the first time that day, that trip, that year. Your feet slip through the surface and your mind just starts cranking out scenarios. The day is fresh, full of hope, the trout have not left you jaded or humbled or any of the emotions one [...]

This I can confidently say is the best summer ever, and its only the first week of June, and its only gonna get better. To bad for my reader (there’s gotta be at least one of you) but I’m no longer depressed, the bad thoughts have either worked their way out of my system or [...]

I choose to live in a place that it rains most of the time. Until you live in a place like this you don’t know what rain is. Lets put it this way, I love to go to Seattle because Seattle has hot dry weather in the winter. We have maybe sixty miles of roads, [...]

Well another gorgeous day in Juneau, sometimes I forget that it rains for month on end here, so much so that all I want to do on a hot day like this is sit inside and tie flies. It of course doesn’t hurt that I can sit inside and tie flies while on the clock [...]