Flashback: 2001

With the 2009 season being my last one as a full-time guide (It’s time to move on to the next big adventure), I thought it would be fun to take a look back and see just exactly what the heck I was doing some of those years. So, if sifting through a bunch of photos of a much younger me holding a lot of fish we don’t currently have doesn’t get too depressing, I’d do a few flashbacks throughout 2009. Check out the STORM Lures shirt in the pic above…that’s dating myself a bit!

So anyway, in no particular order, let’s turn the clock back to 2001…

Back then, I had one of the first glass boats on the American River…or was that under the American? Ah, long story…

At least we still had a bunch of salmon in the American in those days. Enough fish and clients for me to do a morning trip…

…followed by a night trip. Those were good times, though that two-a-day trips for a month straight was definitely a younger man’s game!

In 2001, I was also spending part of my summers in Alaska guiding on the Nushagak River…

And part of them running these two boats for Mile High Fishing on Lake Tahoe:

After Tahoe, I’d bounce to the Feather River, where we used to be able to catch guys their limits (plus one for the skipper) by 9 in the morning…

And maybe even get a few of those small but scrappy steelies the Feather was famous for…

And of course long before Big Fred became a pro bass fisherman, he and I used to go guide kings on the Trinity/Klamath together…

Man, getting a little misty-eyed here…where does the time go??

Tagged as: american river, feather river salmon, fishing, klamath river, trinity river