Welcome to the "what's new" section of High Country Fly Fisher.com.

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New as of July 21, 2008

7/21/2008 -

 My last two trips have been a bust. On one we tried a dubious cross country route and did nothing butt battle manzanita and steep terrain for 4 hours. The other I suffered heat exhaustion, ending my planned solo 8 day trek in the Emigrant Wilderness. I posted some nice pictures though: Stream Gallery, Mountain Gallery.

6/28/2008 -

 Updated with site with last weekend's Hilton Lakes trip.

6/24/2008 -

 Updated the photo gallery with this weekends trip: Fish, Mountains, Stream

6/05/2008 -

 Posted a slide show movie of the Mammoth trip.

6/04/2008 -

 Posted a report from the annual Mammoth Lakes trip.

6/02/2008 -

 I'm back from the annual Mammoth Lakes trip. We spent our entire week on Hot Creek Ranch. No report yet but I've posted pictures in the galleries: Fish, Stream, Mountains

04/30/08 -

Finally, opening day has arrived. Saturday was Butterball Creek (no pictures and no fish) and Sunday a Kern River Rainbow stream I've named Plan C Creek.

03/30/08 -

I've been doing some warm water fishing. I fished in Redding two weeks ago and Kistler Ranch this weekend.

Updated the Warm Water and Local Gallery.

01/31/08 -

I've add to the rod making process.

12/05/07 -

I've posted several long over due trips:

11/03/07 -

I've started documenting my rod making process. It's nothing earth shattering but it is "new" to the site.
 

10/18/07 -

Finally got around to posting the Upper Sac trip and posted a short write up for last weekend's Stan trip.
 

10/12/07 -

I've got a hold of some of the DFG Angler's Guides and have posted them here.

Posted some pics from last weekends Upper Sac trip on the Fish Gallery, Mountain and Stream Galleries.

08/28/07 -

Mystery Creek is high and full of fish: Mystery Creek.

08/08/07 -

I got a video camera for my birthday last year and I've finally had a chance to give it try. Here's my first video: 20 Lakes Basin Trip

07/21/07 -

Just came back from catching native Brook Trout in Shenandoah National Park. Also fished Dunbar Creek and updated the gallery pages.

07/2/07 -

It's been a while since I've fished the 20 Lakes Basin proper. Here's a report.

06/27/07 -

Updated the galleries- Fish, Mountain, Stream with photos from last weekend's trip.

06/05/07 -

 

 I'm constantly proof reading the site. It's a good thing too because I can rarely catch mistakes while the chronicle is fresh in my head. I tend to read what I'm thinking and not what I've actually written. Therefore, I've reposted yesterday's trip report. It was pretty bad. Probably still is but at least it's a little better today.

Also updated the galleries- Fish, Mountain, Stream

06/04/07 -

 

 It's that time of year again. We're back from Mammoth! Photos will be posted in the galleries later in the week.

05/14/07 -

 

 Fished a new fork of Butterball Creek.

05/08/07 -

 

 Let the high country season begin!

05/06/07 -

 

 Posted some photos of a local trip on a new Local and Warm Water Gallery. Not high country stuff but definitely "From the Pish Page" material.

Posted some Yosemite photos from this weekend- Fish and Stream.

 

04/02/07 -

 

 I'm planning to do more local warm water fishing this year. I got out last weekend on a private bass pond.

 

12/23/06 -

 

 Fixed the site navigation as promised. I think I got everything......

 

11/06/06 -

 

 Added pictures to each of the Galleries- Fish, Mountain, Stream and Rod.

 

10/18/06 -

 

 Posted a report about backpacking into the Desolation Wilderness.

 

10/12/06 -

 

 Posted a report about backpacking into Tehipite Valley, Kings Canyon.

 

09/18/06 -

 

 Had a great time this weekend fishing Mystery Creek.

 

09/13/06 -

 

 I finally got around to writing a trip report for my trip to PA (Dunbar Creek) and my recent quest for Paiute trout. Labor Day weekend I took my sister to Yosemite and taught her to fish. No report for that other than to say fishing on the Dana Fork has slowed a bit.

 

08/14/06 -

 

 This weekend's report to the Tioga - Shepard Area. Not so long or as last week and better fishing.

08/10/06 -

 

 This weekend's report to the Tioga - Shepard Area. Warning, it's long.......

08/08/06 -

 

 I've posted pictures in the galleries from this weeks trip- Fish, Streams, Mountains

I haven't written a report yet.

07/22/06 -

 

 I've done some work on the galleries.

07/17/06 -

I managed a short day trip to Yosemite this weekend, a place called the Miwok called Tululawiak.

07/04/06 -

There's nothing much going on right now. I've had to cancel a few trips due to closed trailheads or illness. On a bright note, I did get my Heritage Trout Cert.

06/25/06 -

Added Brook Trout and Cutthroat Trout to the High Country Fish portion of the site.

If you come in through the main page of the site, you'll see that I've added my email address in an easy to view area. More and more I'm finding people on the 'net using my photos and eventhough the email information is readily available for anyone who does a "whois" search, I want to make sure folks know where to go to get permission to use the photos before they do so.

I've also done some navigation work.

06/05/06 -

Did some work on the Fish and Mountain Galleries.

06/04/06 -

Just got back from Mammoth.

05/27/06 -

I've added a trip to the mountains outside LA. I've asked my friend if I'm giving any thing away. He hasn't replied so read it while you can.

05/25/06 -

I've added a late opening day trip to Yosemite and made small changes to the Fish Gallery.

05/13/06 -

I've got about 3 fishing reports to write up but until then, I've added some pics to the fish gallery.

Recently I've had a couple of requests for folks to use my photos. Page 16 or 17 of the current issue of Southwest Fly Fishing magazine has a picture from the Redband trip and an environmental group has asked to use an LKG picture. In the past, I've intentionally obscured my email address on the site. It's on the for sale page but no where else. Or at least no where that I can remember. It's pretty hard to find and I appreciate that folks have been able to hunt it down and ask for permission to use the pictures.

I promise to fix the site navigation this year.

   

10/20/05 -

Posted a this year's last high country trip.

09/29/05 -

Posted a Golden Trout trip. Started to finally update the "fish" portion of the site.

09/11/05 -

Posted a Redband Trout trip.

09/05/05 -

Posted an Ansel Adams Wilderness Trip. Posted some pictures from this weekends Redband Trout Quest (Heritage Trout Challenge).

08/17/05 -

Posted a Lahonton Cutt trip.

07/08/05 -

Posted a Cottonwood Lakes trip.

06/29/05 -

Posted a Mystery Creek trip.

06/15/05 -

I've worked a little on the old site chronicles.

06/05/05 -

I've posted a trip report for our annual Mammoth Trip.

05/14/05 -

I've posted trip reports for Mystery Creek and the Rio Cebola. I must have been in a crusty place while writing the last report, it has signs of a rant coming on.

05/03/05 -

The Season has started. I've posted an Opening Day report and updated the blog.

05/01/05 -

More site work. When I started the new site, one of the things I wanted to do differently was to include the pictures on the site in a gallery and not simply within each story. I've updated the fish and stream galleries with pictures.

I thought AOL finally got rid of the old site last week; but, it's still up. Can you believe it.

04/18/05 -

Wow. I took a good look at the site this weekend. I hadn't realized what a mess it is. I've started working to fix the link issues and I'll be adding the menu system soon.

03/13/05 -

Updated the blog and found a trip report from the very last CONFUSED fishing trip that never made the old site.

03/02/05 -

It's a little silly of me to update this page every time I update the rod blog, so I'm not. The blog will be updated regularly but this page won't reflect that.

02/28/05 -

Updated the blog and a gallery or two.

02/21/05 -

 

 Updated the blog. Removed the background from this page. Added a gallery of shop and rod photos. Added new photo's to other galleries. Added photos to the Barrett Lake Trip

02/14/05 -

I've decided to post a rod shop blog. I know, I should be spending my time fixing the site...but....this is much easier.

10/23/04 -

Posted an Owens River Gorge Report.

I've created a for sale page for item's that I'm trying to sell, pre-ebay. The items will range from bamboo rods to packs.

Check out what's FOR SALE.

09/18/04 -

 

 Menu's still aren't working fully. I've been pretty busy and have just completed my only fishing trip since mid July! It's a trip to Mystery Creek. I've posted a trip report.

06/22/04 -

 

 I still haven't fixed the menus but I've added some new content. I've posted the first part of the Memorial Day trip.

05/27/04 -

I probably shouldn't have posted the new site until it was 100% ready but I did. I'm slowly getting things working.

I'm spending this week fishing and will spend some time fixing things when I get back.
 

05/15/04 -

This site is new! The old site had out lived its purpose and I felt something new was in order. If you are a fan of the old site, some of the old reports can be found in the chronicles section under "From the Pish Page". In addition, some of the high country tales come from the old site. Most of the resource information has been dropped with the exception of the links and fish mortality information.

This site is very much a work in progress.