The Plan

On the morning of August 1, 2010 my 20 year old son and I will board a Frontier Airline plane in Atlanta and head west, first to Denver and then on to Billings, MT. This is a trip that I've thought about for a while and decided to finally bite the bullet and do it. Picture on left is Jon with guide Andy Brackett and a "pellet pig" at River North section of Soque River.

A couple of years ago Jon asked me to teach him to cast a fly rod and, as I expected, he took to it very quickly. In short order he became a beautiful caster (the boy is very athletic and this was not a surprise) and after a few trips to the Chattooga River

in northeast Georgia...Jon was "hooked" on fly fishing and on his way to becoming an accomplished fly fisherman. The beautiful male Brookie shown here was one of his Chattooga trophies.

This picture below shows Jon with a nice cast on the Delayed Harvest section of the Chattooga River...our favorite home water.

I often told him about fishing on western rivers (I've been fishing in the west for 20 years or so) and he was itching to see it for himself. Understanding that I probably wont live forever, I thought that this summer was an ideal time for the two of us to go.

The plan is to spend eight days fishing...three days on the fabulous Bighorn River, a couple days in Cody, Wy with our friend Ted (who has guided there), a horseback trip into Yellowstone Park to fish for Cutt's on Slough Creek and ending up in Livingston, MT for a couple of days doing whatever makes sense.

So, in about 30 days, we're outta here. Stay tuned.......