Epic Road Trip

Wow its been almost a month since my last post. I want to tell you all about the road trip Jack and I just recently got back from. I purchased a Clacka Craft Drift Boat that was going to cost me an arm and a leg to have shipped to me, so we decided to drive out ourselves. There were a few close calls with big game animals on the way out, nights spent sleeping on yeti coolers, and hours upon hours of driving but man was it a great trip. Jack and I fished Idaho for two days one of which was a float trip down the lower Henry's Fork. After that we headed a bit north to Montana where we experienced the Salmonfly hatch for the first time, and we floated the Bighorn for a day. Next stop was Wisconsin, we fished the drifts region, and some norther Wisconsin smallmouth water. We have a great time cooking most of our meals and only staying in cheap hotels to get a shower and the free continental breakfast! Here are a series of pictures from the trip.

Fish from Friends & New TCO Decals

Here are a couple shots from my good friends Drew and Linda, from their recent State College fishing trip.

A couple pictures from Montana, Chris was just out for a Simms meeting, so what elese do you do. You fish with the guys.

Mike a great customer of the shop, sent me these photos from a recent Tully trip. Awesome Fish Mike!

Thanks for the photos everyone!!!


Also check out our new TCO Decals.

Montana, Idaho, and my Good Friend Tom

Saturday evening, as many of you already know, I boarded a plane for the west. I was flying into Spokane Washington to meet up with an old buddy of mine, from my guiding days in Alaska. Tom Larson, is a great friend if mine, when he is not guiding and fishing in Alaska, be is a resident of a small Idaho town, Kellogg, and fishes the the local rivers around his town. So when I decided I wanted to head out for a pre-runoff fishing trip, he was the first person I called. We made plans and off I went.

Boarding the plane we still didn't have a set plan on where we would go, but either way it was going to be awesome. Arriving the conditions in norther Idaho didn't look great, so we loaded up the the truck and headed east into Montana. Bitterroot and Beaverhead were the two we wanted to fish the most. Skwalas on the Bitterroot, and wadable flows on the Beaverhead, lets see what happens.

Well two days on the Bitterroot only rendered two fish, we were, as they say "a day late and a dollar short". Skwalas were over and the fish were full. So it was off to the Beaverhead, after a beautiful drive over the Bitterroot mountains and through the Big Hole valley, we were sitting on the banks of the Beaverhead looking down river at, what I would say, was the coolest river I've ever seen. I'll let the pictures tell the rest of the story. But I will say, only seeing three boats, and two other people in two days, was nothing short of amazing.

Then it was back to Idaho for sate number six in my ten state quest for 2013, everything was high and blown out. But I did manage to find a small gem, check it out. East coast meets West coast.