Beautiful Art by Jeffrey Craven

Came across this very talented artist awhile back, but was reminded of him as he was featured in

a recent issue of Big Sky Journal. I am always fond of artists with skills of in watercolors and oil. In addition Jeffrey Craven resides in Ririe, ID, just outside of Idaho Falls on the South Fork of the Snake.

 " Browns and Diamonds on the Ruby " watercolor

" Mid Summers Eve " watercolor

" Evening Hatch " Oil on Board

Seattle Sights

Will be headed to Seattle in a few weeks, can't wait, as it is one of my favorite places walk around and see. Always so many photo opportunities, great micro brews and great sushi. The market is pretty cool place to cruise around and check out too.

Sure wish I was headed over to Forks, to cast to a few chromers while I was out there, sure do miss

fishing for Steel this year. 

" Soul of a City "

Every so often Yeti puts out another gem amidst the plethora of real nice videos shorts

that they put out every three weeks or so. Soul of a City is a good down home story of an

eclectic artisan, Evan Voyles. Yeti shares his store of a lost art of neon sign building, oh, so cool.

Ditch Day

A beautiful day would greet us for the maiden launch of the new boat to break in the 2017 fishing season. This by far is the latest start to the fishing season we have had on 6-8 years, and it showed because of the current level of stress. Well with work and family obligations now behind us, it is time

to get with the day on the river and fish. 

 The new boat would not disappoint, although a bit heavier that our 3 previous outfits ( this one has a few more bells and whistles) it tracked and rowed very nicely. We would also experiment with longer oars than we previously had, but again, work well and rowed like a dream.

Having caught the first $8000 fish, to break in the boat, an IPA would be in order, and aptly the new Vessel  would be named, "Melvin" after this delicious IPA for Melvin  Brewing. Melvin fits the boat perfect.