Steely,
I remember that bash. It was a lot of fun and was the first bash I had attended. Yes, it is hard to believe that it was five years ago already. Man does time really fly by as we get older....
Of course I remember you and am grateful for the drive home as well. It would have been a long lonely drive without someone to share the ride with. I was very happy to give you a ride. Would do it again in a second.
Didn't we also get out fishing once after that? We hit the Russian together for a day of fishing if memory serves me well.
Glad to hear you are till around and sounding very healthy. Congrats on that.
I plan to explore a new river (to me anyways) this weekend. I have been invited by some fellows from a local fly fishing chat room to meet up this week after work and plan a weekend reccon of a local river.
Like I said in my first post, should you ever make it up this way, give me a shout and we can see what we can pull together fishing wise..
I hope you get back on the water. I was fishing the Russian a few weeks back when the weather was nice and managed a three fish day at one of my favorite places there. Egg patterns are what was working for me and a purple egg sucking leech.
After many years of wanting and wishing I will finally get to try the Salmon fly hatch on the Deschutes in May-June timeframe. I had always heard this was a great feast for the trout but had always been saving my vacation time for Steelhead in the fall.
Great to hear from you my friend!
Fred