Sorry for not posting in a long-time. I haven't had any good reports to relay and the main reason for that is that my great buddy Brian was diagnosed with cancer in July. Unfortunately after a brutal battle he passed away mid-December. He was 40 and left a wife and two young boys.
I met Brian about 5 years ago on the Brule. It was fall, the water was low, and a few of us floating line, indicator fishers were being pushed out of the deeper slower holes to the riffles. We exchanged numbers like school girls and bumped into each other on the Kinni twice the following spring. That fall I invited Brian to stay at the cabin instead of the luxurious accommodations in Brule. Both of our wives had some concerns about this overnight with a person neither of them had met. Brian's wife was worried we were swingers.
After a successful steelhead trip, we stayed in touch, introduced the families and became best of friends all around. The boys love hanging out together (and still do of course).
I am very blessed to have known Brian and be able to share a number of great fishing trips with him. He was becoming proficient on the sticks we were working on trips this summer. Brian always joked with me that "even if we retired today and lived to 100 we still wouldn't get all the fishing trips in we had planned". At least we had a few.
