: About Me

I have been an outfitter and professional fishing and hunting guide for the past 15 years. After graduating from Montana State University in Bozeman, MT, I decided to pursue a career that offered a quality of life that would make most anyone envious. While guiding as a career sounds like just great fun, I think anyone who has been in the field or on the water for money would agree, it is no different than any other job. Ups, downs, jerks, great people and everything in between.

I have been truly blessed with the opportunity to raise my kids in Montana, and I am always willing to share that experience with others as well.

My areas of expertise, are upland bird hunting, waterfowl and flyfishing both in fresh and salt water. I have been featured on ESPN, OLN, Fox Outdoors and several other publications. I have been the Head Guide at Eagle Nest Lodge, an Orvis Endorsed fly fishing and wingshooting operation for over 10 years. We were recently selected as the 2007 fly fishing lodge of the year.

My passion is ...

waterfowl

I know too much about ...

fishing

My parents always told me ...

never write anything down you don't want EVERYONE to know.

My childhood ambition ...

lawyer

My favorite memory ...

birth of my kids

Why I write ...

I enjoy writing. It is food for my soul.

My first job ...

lifeguard

My best moment ...

Marrying my beautiful wife of 10 years, Kori.

My inspiration ...

my family, the outdoors and my friends

Creative Writing > Short Stories Short stories: Life lessons

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From Behind the Oars is the viewpoint from which I spent the last 15 years of my life. This was a position of great enjoyment followed by incredible disappointment, a position of pride as well as embarrassment and a place of teaching and learning all at the same time. Sometimes this all may have happened within half an hour. During that 15 year span I made lifelong friendships as well as several enemies and the environment was always changing. It was these constant changes that kept me coming back for more; a new friend, a tough fish, a big fish, a gorgeous spring day or the leaves falling...

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