Trout Painting (This guy has vision)

This guy has mad skills!

Bitch Creek!

Two weeks ago I tied 100 flies.... nymphs, drys, and streamers of all variety. Last week I fished a variety of different water in Idaho and loved every moment. I fished the famous box canyon and had little to no success. I saw lots of fisherman floating and wadding as I was but I saw no one catch a single fish. I had heard of Bitch Creek and thought I would try it out. I have heard it was a bear to get to since that is where the name came from. However, I was pleasantly surprised when I pulled of the highway just north of Felt Idaho. I walked about 200 feet and was in the water ready to cast into the most beautiful water. I had a hopper dropper with a 16 prince and threw one of my first casts into an amazing hole. BAAAM! Huge fish 17 to 18 incher. After about an hour of hitting my prince they started hitting my hopper imitation which I would have thought no fish would have gone for because it was rather large and only there to make my dropper easy to see. Boy was I wrong. They were going for both and I was having the time of my life. In one of the pictures you can see some hoppers that look pretty darn close to my large fly. I took some pretty sweet pictures and it would have been even cooler to have one of you boys with me. As the sun was going down I was getting close to turning around. I was in my chacos and I slipped on the rocks, tried to catch my self and after about 10 flailing steps went down. It would have been awesome to catch on video. I saw my fly box come out of my vest and caught it before it went down the river. Close call. I was done for the day and headed back to the car and fished some of the big holes I just couldn't pass up. There was a pretty deep hole right below a bridge and at that point had one of my favorite caddis fly's size 14. Earlier they were going for my nymph and I knew there was a beast in there. I cast the fly and it couldn't have been in a better spot. It sat in the rolling water for about 6 seconds and out of the blue the beast rose from beneath. I jumped with joy as I worked him closer to me with rod bent in half. I pulled him in and knew he was picture worthy. I reached for my camera........ Gone! I was devastated. I put my rod down close to the bridge and ran back to where I thought I slipped and fell. There was the camera sitting in 3 feet of water and had been there for at least 30 to 45 minutes. At least I had the SD card with the many pictures from that day. That was Friday. I just checked my camera and turned it on to see if by any chance it would work knowing it was fried.... It works perfectly. I love my Canon SD1000. I am shocked it still works after sitting for so long in the water considering Ben you dropped yours in the water and pulled it out immediately and it was toast. I will be back to Bitch Creek and this is an invitation to any of you peeps who want to fish it. I caught at least three to four 18 to 19 inch cuts, and a rainbow that was pretty good size. It was by far one of my favorite days on the water.

Sometimes you just need to ask

I have been wanting to get a hold of a William Joseph lunch box for a long time. Every time I get on Facebook it seems one of my friends has posted a link to enter to win one from William Joseph. Needless to say I have not won one yet. I decided to take matters into my own hands. The following letter is a message that I sent to William Joseph on Facebook:

Dear William Joseph Fly Fishing,

I am a principal at a local (Provo) private school. I enjoy working with staff and students and find it very rewarding. I do my best to be a support to all staff in their work and students with the difficulties that they have in learning and growing. Some days can be tough and some can be excellent examples of how great it is to be involved with learning.
As a principal it is a little intimidating to go into the lunch room at times. There are a lot of kids and a lot of staff that look at you either as a threat or a support. When I take my lunch from home (my wife makes a mean ham and cheese) I walk to the fridge in the faculty room and, sometimes a little sheepishly, take my brown paper bag from the shelf and retreat to my office in shame. 
Every once and a while a friend will post a William Joseph Lunchbox give away which I normally respond to immediately. So far I have not been able to win one. In order to lessen the shame of the paper bag at school and fit in with all of the other “Cool” kids I would like to be able to purchase a Willy J Lunch box, however, there is no information on your website as to how I can do so. Please help this principal in his pursuit of the coolest lunchbox ever!
Sincerely,

Ben Parker
Principal Heritage Schools

I received a message a few days later asking to send my mailing information and less than a week after I sent out my request I had my lunchbox. I am now the envy of the faculty room. There was an incident the first day that I took it to work but I will leave that to another post.

So if you are in doubt as to whether or not you should ask about something, just ask. The worst they could say is no! By the way, Check out Willy J on Facebook, they are a really cool company.