Goal Orientated

When we were kids M.P. told her mother in a letter from Alaska that I " seemed to lack all ambition ".  Well I guess she was a bit right but we really had were just different views of what 'ambition ' is. So for being that guy I think we've done pretty darn good here at Mile 14. One of the ways I stay on task is that every year I put my goals on this board in my prep shed so every morning and afternoon I see it as I work through the summer. In the old days we needed a ton of $$$ to fuel this fire but now we've toned it down to a more simple program and then I gauge my successes and renew the projects that I need to work more on.....lets see how it's going.

1. Well, I probably don't need that course as I'm over qualified the way it is but I figure if I take the class I can learn some of the secret ways of the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game....ya know, like the secret handshake they use to get in the office when the building is blockaded  or the code phrase of the day you  use to get them to return a phone call....ya know, things like that. And I guess I could use a little primer on the use of acronym's and how they help the  confusion that works so well for them. any way....but that's just a  s.w.a.g. ..... In any case I'm willing to donate a full 2 hours to furthering my fisheries education, I'm just hoping I can get the course over the internet so I can have a few beers while I take it, kinda figure I might need them.

2. I have 10 more silver trips on the books and that revenue will 'make' our season and pay the bills until the summer of 2016 when I've decided to do it all over again one more time. So after those 10 trips if I get any other calls that $$$ will go to the hollowbody electric I want, top end is about 2 G's and if I settle for the Hofner thin it's 800.00 or the Gibson  midtown is about 1400.00... MP doesn't get why I need another guitar but...mmmm.... you don't go golfing with one club do you ?

3. Last year at this time I weighed 204 and trained as I do in the fall down to 187...I've had this goal for a while now and this year I think it's ' duck soup ' as I'm right now at 194. So THIS year is the year.

4. Done.... I finished the song pretty much and I really like it. It's snappy, it's a little dumb , it's about love , it's a break through  for me. I guess I finally learned that I was trying to do to much with the songs....kinda over thinking the whole thing and who needs that.

I heard a thing or two

In this little town

people talk so much

just a brings ya down.

I heard a thing or three

someone said it finally

they even talk-a-talk-a-talk-a whats true

I'm crazy in love with you

5. Done

6. Now I've caught em all....big and small.  Last year when I finally caught my big Robalo  it was in a weird way kind of sad because I guess I need that in my life and then I didn't have it and....make sense ? So the one fish I haven't caught a really big one of in the surf is a Pargo....so if I were a Mexican Red Snapper kinda fish I'd be a little nervous right now, you've been warned.

7. Yup we're going home to Mooontana at the end of Sept for a week of R+R and then MP's mom's 90th birthday. With both my folks gone now it's always strange going back but we'll do it.... and the song is a true story, ' you're always 17 in your home town '. 

8. We're spending a night at an Idaho Casino and that's how we'll pay for the trip...I got the feeling it will be in diamonds just like the last one I hit.

9. I feel great....thank you lord. And of course It's been about 14 years now I've been on my health kick and in the gymnasio....no stoppin now.

One of the things of good health is knowing your body. So the other day I went to the doctor because I'd heard of fish poisoning and I've never seen a 3 fingered guitar picker. On the ugly scale it came in 2nd to my bee sting in Mazatlan a few years back but I'm on antibiotics now and on the mend.

You know my surf fishing Team X member buddy Ernie is here from Canada. He's put me in a real quandary as what to do with my guiding.... I think he's been  out fishing the fleet just bank fishing here at Mile 14. The other day in the howling wind I needed to get close to shore on the leeward side so I anchored up exactly where I tie up my boat and walla, a limit of silvers in an hour.
Here's a pic of me and Ern in the boat and him with two fish he caught last night in about and hour.

So my plan for tomorrow is simple. We go down river in the cold with daylight just breaking. We anchor up in place I've fished 100's of times in my life. We get into the fast paced salmon action like this guy below who caught my eye.... and then we go fish 20 feet from my boat dock. Duck soup !