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Hi Mike, well everything is still looking good here, looking forward to meeting everyone. Might pack a rifle and see if I can hit some of the hunts on the way up as well. Its been 25 years sense I hunted Elk (by special permit) in Cali and hunting them along the coast mountains proofs interesting in Oregon as well. As I remember it if you shot on on the side of a ridgeline you had to go to the bottom and butcher him out there and mostly pitch camp and eat as much as you could for a couple of days while the quarters chilled out, the climb back up was too much for the pack horses.
I always keep my dinner plate, fork and knife handy for that kind of hunting. Rough stuff. The easiest shot I ever made in my life was the worst recovery. We had to repel down a sharp canyon a couple hundred feet and litterally hoist that critter back up. Took us 12 hours to get the bugger back up the 200 feet vertical clift he dropped off. Darn horns caught on everything. It was freezing cold and 1am before we got him up and pitched camp to gut and skin him out and let the meat hang. Guess thats how some memories are made.
Im gonna bring several home made rods along, there first outing, so it will be a fun trip. Might even bring a big boat rod along in case I go all the way to Alaska and get into some Coastal fishing before I head home.
Richard

Hahaha most likely very true, in the mid Seventies I hunted in Spain at the Invitation of the King of Spain and the younger brother of the Shaw of Iran, I was the #4 finisher that year for an award by Safari Club International. Still have the Certificate somewhere packed away. Molfon Sheep were I believe the game of the day on the private reserve of the King of Spain. Also hunted to get that award with Fin Aragard in old Rodesia and South Africa. Life it does seem leads us to some strange adventures. Ive never left game, regreted that sometimes, like I say we had to eat pretty much of one before we packed it out once and almost killed ourselves in the early 80s packing that one up the clift with repelling equipment and a winch on my 4X4.
Im a firm believer if you shoot it you eat it. Likewise if a fish is damaged, I will eat it, however I use only barbless hooks under many cituations. SMB, Crappie, Bluegill and catfish excluded, we have alot of those fishes here and they are great for dinner.
Ive been in one of of those camps, guys setting in the freezing rain setting on the stumps with wet boots around the fire. They have often beaten me back to camp. If I shoot it I will bring it in. Believe me thats no small thing sometimes. But at least my son has the same ethic and I hope to install it into my grandsons as well.
Richard

hi Mike, well books take time to write and I make enough spelling and gramatical errors to fill one anyway, but I have lived a very eventful and interesting life. Makes for some fun fireside stories with the young boy scouts while packing up into the Golden Trout Wilderness. I took the boys up for alot of years, setting around the fire with Coyotes howling and mountain lions snarling nearby over a long dead lost cow.
Ive had alot of advertures over the years, both hunting and fishing, luck of the draw, I suspect i was at the right place at the right time for most of it.

So on to our clave, Flygodess shipped my suggested furrled leaders for the clave, Im very impressed, still working on which rods to bring, as well the matching reels, I suspect I will get that together in the next week or two and then order the flys from your local sourses.
So anything new on your guys end as far as licensing fee's or any other changes? I haven't booked yet a local place to sleep but will be doing so soon. Any updates or suggestings that havent been made yet? I will be traveling afar, so looking for a place with good food nearby, near to our clave and accessable.
Likewise if anybody has suggestions for the trip to continue on up the coast at least as far as Juno please let me know via PM, I plan on making it a 10 day to two week trip up the coast and even Farbanks is not out of the question.
Richard