"Russell" wrote

Keep us posted on your where abouts like you did last year. I enjoyed
those TRs.

Well thank you. This is the first fishing log I've kept and I found it
great fun. I went back over all the entries from last year and it's
amazing how much it brings back, and how much you can learn from your old
entries. For one thing, I seem to be a real grump, something I would never
have guessed G. I'll record into my laptop, daily, then upload when I
can find a 'Net connection.... check the site every week or so, if you want
to follow my misadventures

Some guys love the excitement of the new places, and so do I, but I far
prefer the intimacy and warmth of the familiar. I've fished the HFork and
Silver Creek nearly every year, at least a little, for many years now, and
they feel like home. The feeling of "home water" is what I hope will
evolve for my remaining summers, though my home has wheels.

I want to be able to know a few streams well enough to confidently say, " I
don't fish long hours, just the best hours." That is is what I seek from my
current study of fishing....intimacy with a few of Nature's best places.
That is far more important to me than catching a lot of fish or becoming a
"really good fisherman" ... I almost always "could have" caught more fish
than I do. After a few I'm no longer hungry for that and often just watch
'em feed, or go for a walk, instead of trying for more fish. "How many is
enough?" is a question with a different answer each day. One, done well,
can be enough ... sometimes 50 wouldn't be ... but the latter days now only
exist in my memory of a "hungry fisherguy" of the past, that looked a lot
like me.

Of course my desires involve commitment to learning a particular fishery.
At this point, I think that "a" fishery isn't enough, but I feel that I have
found my "summer home" in that eastern corner of Idaho and can be very happy
returning to the same places each year for as long as God makes that
possible. I'm sure my summers will consist of a few weeks at each of a few
"favorite places" ... although the order may vary each year, so that each
can be learned at various times. ...and I'm sure the place you suggested
will be on the list.


When you get to that place I hope to maybe meet up with you
there. Might be shaky though. My fishing prospects for the summer are
looking kinda bleak. We bought a new house last fall and SWMBO says the
basement must be finished.


I hope you can make it ....HWMBO ..HE who must be obeyed .... is your own
"spiritual side" and if you are anything like me, HWMBO says, " find some
water, .... fish, sit, look, and listen .... not necessarily in that order
..... " Not that it will help, but you can quote me to SWMBO g