Wooden Boat Adventures

These Normal guys from St. Louis came out to Oregon last fall and we spent a couple of days on the river chasing steelhead on the fly in a wooden boat and an FJ40 (of course). Great guys, great trip, great outcome. They've been winning all kinds of awards for their apparel line - something about their obsession with quality and details. Check them out.

Oregon 2016 As little kids, Pop would wake us up early, throw layer upon layer of hand-me-down gear on us, and take us to the water or to the woods.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saG5dEptnBc&feature=youtu.be

Jarod & Rich Jarod catches his first Steelhead on the fly...... a great WoodenBoat Adventure!!!

Nephew Ben Leonard came out west from Tennessee for a WoodenBoat Adventure this past summer. For Christmas, I put together a little video of the highlights - steelhead on the fly, camping in the Enos, running rapids and eating well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDpYCXWv3sc

Ben's NW Adventure

http://181.224.136.168/~findyo63/index.php/2015/10/14/crater-lake-national-park-the-rogue-river/

Crater Lake National Park & the Rogue River Crater Lake is the deepest lake in the United States, and its water is the darkest azure blue I have ever seen anywhere. It’s worth the trip to this National Park in south central Oreg…

http://181.224.136.168/~findyo63/index.php/2015/09/01/mount-rainier-national-park/

Mount Rainier National Park | Find Your Park… Mount Rainier is a 14,400 foot active volcano with one of the most spectacular views you will ever see. It’s also the most glaciated peak in the lower 48 states of the U.S., which means a steady supply of melting ice that spawns six major rivers flowing cold and fast out of the park. It’s a towering…

Upper McKenzie River

Fisherman... steelhead on the fly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ih4-h0M1P3E

Catching Steelhead on a Fly in a WoodenBoat - 2014 With a record return of Pacific Steelhead into the Willamette Valley fishery in 2014 - it was a good year to run rivers and fly fish for steelhead in a Woode...

http://smallboatsmonthly.com/article/dories-canyon/

Dories in the Canyon - Small Boats Monthly Greg Hatten and Dave Mortenson run the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon in wooden dories, replicas of those used in 1962 by Martin Litton