Ultimate Catch

I know this isn't fishing related but I love this photo. I recently was a groomsman at a good friends wedding and had Miguel shoot this shot of us with a point and shoot camera. It's a rare find to see me in a tux.

So how could I relate this to fishing? I got it! I caught the ultimate catch five years ago and she is still my everything.

Campsites

So unique
So raw
So fun
So quite
So core
So warm
So cold
So good
So me
So campsite

Retreat

I recently took a retreat to the wild alone to seek comfort. I got a little fishing in and just spent time alone in the beautiful creation. I had a few heavy upsets in the family and needed to reconnect since I felt poured out like a drink offering the week before.

Through this experience I realized I was putting Him in a box. He has been tugging on my heart, asking me to listen to Him, and when I finally let go of everything I expected him to speak right away. As if! Who am I to expect something like that? It's funny, He didn't speak to me as I imagined. Rather, after spending a few days alone, I realized later that he did speak to me in the simplest of ways. He simply put this verse on my heart, "Be still and know that I am God". Those words still comfort and haunt me to this day.

The wife snapping a quick one through the technical obstacles of small creek fun.

Camp Coffee

Well, my wife and I took a weekend excursion to the Golden Trout Wilderness in search for some technical, low-traffic water. We indeed found what we were looking for and had two days of solid dry fly, 4 weight excitement. If you could drift it right, BAM, you had a lively wild trout on. It required a few hours of backpacking through, what my wife will call, no trail, which in my mind is THE idea. It sometimes pays off to go where most don't and God blesses me immensely when I take that extra step.

My wife loved how resourceful I was on the trip when I broke out the 'coffee filter' in the morning. You see, we use to have this great, little cloth coffee filter we picked up from our trip in Costa Rica where we used it countless times as it became the greatest backpacking necessity. It finally broke on our last trip, so I improvised the day of, and grabbed some excess fabric for the Fabric Lab at work to use for our morning coffee. She loved it so much, she had to snap a photo.

I like the mood this photo portrays. Contempletion after a long day
backpacking / fishing in the Golden Trout Wilderness.

Rippin' Lips - Lady Style

Rippin' Lips - Lady Style. There is something so graceful when a lady uses the proper equipment on the river. Everything is a little more beautiful, sly, sexy, smooth; simply Lady. Oh yeah.