Greg, Saw the post about the oar holder. It looks like a great solution to a problem I have been pondering myself, as currently, I use a maze of bunjee cords to secure my oars during transit.  I may have to do something like that (said: rip your idea off) before I lose an eye. I love how the holder fits right into the passenger seat slots.

p.s. have been reading "the doing of the thing" (which I got for x-mas) - read a segment about lining a boat down the fish ladder at Rainie falls. It's funny, I was thinking of your roughed up on the rogue post right before reading your comment. 

Cheers, J.G.

its a great town.  let me know if you come back.  catching a 20 lb redfish on the fly will make you want to quit that river fishing business and move to the ocean.  in all seriousness, oregons not too bad either.  i just can't deal w/ the lack of sun all winter. 

Thanks for the warm welcome, Greg! This is a great site, and I hope to contribute a bit, through my restoration work currently, then the maiden voyage and successive trips guiding in my boat this summer. Hope I fixed the damn leak ;-) Also hope to learn lots, and keep up on building techniques.

In Wild Waters,

Zac

Hey Greg,

Thank's for the greeting. I'm carzy about spey fishing for steelhead.

Thye carzy thing is I learned spey in Ireland 25 years ago. When I took my home wound Sage 9140 to the oregon coast back then most people had never seen a spey rod. Later , i befrended Mike Maxwell (may God rest his soul) and the spey thing went viral. Living most of theyear on the Jefferson in MT a fairly large river - I spend a lot of afternoon swinging a neat little 6wt speyrod for big browns - and have caught a few - I tell the few DBs that pass by that I'm just practicing for steelhead.

My wife and I spent all of last September on the Kispiox and Skeena - went to heaven without having to die!

Tom

I'm really thinking about buying/haveing one built, a dear river type slead in wood and epoxy. Any thoughts on builders or designs?

Greg,

thanks for the invite, but I must decline. Pretty much all my precious non-commercial boat time is spent on other rivers these days,so unless I have a new (old) boat that I need to try out, and can't talk my boss into paying me to run it (a neat trick when I can manage it), I like to go do rivers I don't know that well.

Here are emails for John and Curt. John rowed the Susie Two for a while, and Curt maintains the remaining Keith Steele boats.

Curtis Chang <curt@oars.com>

John Blaustein <john@johnblaustein.com>

Thanks Greg. What a great site, now it's going to be real tough to get some work done.

Thanks- loved the time on the river-  1500 miles on vans and cars since and still dealing with photos from the trip.  I do get to guide 2 trips tomorrow which should help the withdrawal.  The Canyon is always spectacular, the people made this trip so special.  Could you give me the name of the book you recomended from the recently retired professor in Oregon about building wooden boats..  I need a new project to dream about.   ;0)))

Also- have you tried that size dory with 10 foot oars?