"rw" wrote


I'd recommend the Brown Drake hatch on Silver Creek in early June, but
it's a zoo -- billionaires arriving on private jets. If you don't mind
fishing at night and setting the hook by ear, though, you'll like it.



I trained dogs for a very nice guy that has a couple big Caterpillar Tractor
dealerships in the Fresno area of the Valley ... i.e. big buck dealerships


He'd leave his duck dog with me all year except for hunting season and fly
up to leave him off or pick him up. The second or third time I met him at
the local, tiny, airport I was surprised when he walked up to the truck and
I said, "Oh I didn't see your plane come in, just a big blue one." He
replied, "Oh, I'm in different one of my planes today." ( he had a personal
pilot and all his dogs had to be taught to lie under his feet in the
airplanes )


Last time I fished the Big Lost, a couple guys walked towards me in the
water ( you know about the locals and having to stay in the water to avoid
buckshot ;-) and I said something about "Try to move carefully please, I
have a good fish working right over there" pointing.

One of them said, "Larry, is that you?"

It was my billionaire guy .... your comment about "them" and private planes
reminded me off the story G

It IS a small world, last year in W.Yellowstone, stopped at a light I hear,
"Larry, Larry, over here!" to turn and see a local dog guy I know ...
actually I've run into a dozen or more people I know there over the last 5
years. The man that owned the Oakdale paper ( weekly) and I met for the
first time on the Firehole two years ago, even though we have several mutual
acquaintances ..etc etc