Tuesday, August 17, 2010

Sunday, August 8, 2010

WildWater in Idaho

WildWater North Fork Payette Teaser from Anson Fogel on Vimeo.

Great Days Guiding


Filled my waders while chasing it down, but it was worth it. The fish had bent the hook and tore around the creek with Jess and I in chase. After what seemed like an hour squeezed into 6 or 7 minutes we got it. Great day and great family photo.

Tuesday, April 20, 2010

The Methow





Time has flown by after moving out to Twisp last month, and I hope it slows down a tad or else I will be out of here before I get a good sampling of everything the Methow valley has to offer. The Methow, pronounced MET-HOW, is sorta Sun Valley meets Big Sky country, quieter and quirkier though. It is a unique place, with so much to do, one of those spots that leads quickly to an overwhelming realization that multiple lifetimes would be needed to cover it all.

Right now work is long, and tiring, but fun, rewarding and adventurous. The people that I have met living here are great and the guys I work with are becoming close friends. I was lucky to get this chance. Hiking, floating and wading rivers all day everyday is hard to beat, especially here. Today we surveyed the Lost river, not of Idaho, of the Pasayten Wilderness here in Washington. An upper tributary to the Methow, the Lost closely resembles northern Idaho streams such as the Selway, Kelly Creek and Marsh Creek, but with a little bit of the destructive capabilities similar to west side rivers like the Hoh or Skykomish. I found three new steelhead redds in a dark, heavily forested side channel off the main river, a place that has actually probably seen few people. Big Foot was probably following me the whole time.

It is still cold here, but the trees are filling with leaves and the days are becoming longer and longer. Summer is just around the corner now.