Hello,
I have been very busy with life and other things. I have been trying to change up the website a little. I also have been learning how to get videos from my HD camera on here for all to see. When that happens, 95% of my videos will be in HD format.

I also filmed my cousins wedding back on December 26th. It was a learning experience for me. As soon as I get a cord that will allow me to transfer the videos i'll be working on that and then continue to update this website.

I have lots of updates to do. I have been traveling all around the country in search of big game and fish. I plan on writing about all the trips when I get some time and posting pictures.

As soon as the majority of this stuff is done i'll be fishing and hunting like a mad man. I put in for a turkey license and if I get one I'll be going into the woods in search of gobblers. I can't wait!

Hope everyone is having a successful New Year!

I have had a tradition of mine that I always go fishing the last day of the year. It's probably been 6-7 years I have been doing this.

My plans were to visit friends for New Years Eve. I  hadn't seen 2 of them in a very long time. In the afternoons I plan to fish one of my favorite rivers. The reports were good till I got there. Go figure, right?

My first day I fish hard. I covered a lot of water with spawn. Nothing wanted to bite so I went home skunked.

Today is the last day of the year.  After yesterday skunk I wasn't really excited to get down to the river. I took my time and got down there around 3:45. I fish hard again, but also received the skunk. I ran into one of the locals and she said the fishing has been horrible.

Oh well, hopefully the new year will bring steelies like this one that I got back on NYE 05:

Been trying to get out steelheading the past few days but when ever I decide to go I realize I just don't have the time. The other day I tried to hit a NE river but realize I had not bought gear for steelheading and my stuff was spread all over from salmon season. Today I decided to drop everything I was doing and hit the river for a few with what ever I could grabbed. I seriously need to regroup all my steelhead gear. From what I heard the fishing had been pretty slow, but that was not going to stop me.

First thing I had to do was rig up my center pin and tie up some spawn. I was excited to fish with my center pin because my buddy Luke's dad had been working on my float rod and I just got it back. He did amazing work and I really appreciate it.  3:45 I was finally on the stream for the first time in a long time. It was nice to cast out for the first time. Nothing was really cooperating til the last hole I hit.

I finally had a bobber down towards the end of the drift and the fish went to take off and threw the hook. I was bummed out but happy to of hooked something. A few cast later I turned my head and looked back and the bobber was gone. I set the hook and felt a huge thud and that was gone. I guess I am a little rusty but do you do. I made a few more drifts and then moved on to the next hole. Made a few cast there and called it a day. I love it when you come back to the truck and it's a empty parking lot.

Headed up to try and get a deer tomarrow and then will hopefully be back at it sometime next week before it's time to head back to work.

Hello,
Just thought I would throw up a quick up date of why I haven't been posting anything new on here. Since fall has begun I have been very busy working. Not that working is taking away from my outdoor concidering I work in the outdoor everyday. I just have had no time to post anything here. I have been all over North America and have taken some sweet videos and pictures. As soon as the fall season is over and there is some down time I plan on updating this on what I have been up to, and what has been keeping me so dang busy.

I also plan on re-doing the site, putting more and better clips on here for all to see. Please stick around!

Thanks,
Dan

Nov. 10th Chris told me I had til the 16th off. I was pretty excited because I always have a lot of success on this week. I decided to hunt around the ranch and in the morning hit up some of my old hunting grounds and scout for the highly anticipated November 15th gun opener. I was deer hunting within minutes on the property. Didn't see a deer but wasn't expecting much.

Nov. 11th took my climber to a spot where I shot my first buck last year. Sat in it all afternoon and to my surprise didn't see a single deer.

Nov. 12th I sat in a area I had alot of success in last year. It was swampy marsh area. Right away had a few does underneath me. Thought about taking one to fill my archery tag but decided to wait.  I still have several days to shoot a buck. Ended up seeing 6 does all togather all day. Didn't see anything after 10:30. Didn't appreciate the jeep driving down the two track that I didn't know had public access to it 3 times. That might have had something to do with not seeing any deer in the afternoon.

Nov. 13th I put a stand up in a deer that was good to me before. Was going to sit somewhere else but got out of the woods to late. Decided to sit in that stand. Ended up not seeing anything.

Nov. 14th seen 35 deer on state land from 10:30 til 3:30. The bucks were really chasing the does. Nothing in the early hours or late hours of the day.

Nov. 15th I had to go to another county on opening day because that is where my doe permit was for. Took a gamble and used other hunters to my advantage by walking a little farther into the woods and using hunters to push deer towards me. I had deer being pushed all over before light and had deer walking the property line. Finally around 8:10 this doe pop out on my side and I let her have it. Ran about 50 yards and took a dirt nap. I couldn't contain myself from letting out a yahooooo. If I had more time I might of passed her up because I only had one day to rifle hunt. Around 10 while we were taking pics, and tagging her, and gutting her we had deer all over us. Oh well...it was a great opening day for me because this my first deer I ever shot on opening day of any season.

Been super busy working and trying to get my share of the outdoors still. Was fishing a NW river last week and my final fish was a real nice king. Best bait was skein under a bobber. Fishing was kinda slow til the last day. 26 lbs on the scale. The girth times length scale says its 28.66. Who to believe. Here he is:

My buddy Don made this. I thought i'd share: