My new favorite beach

I love local restaurants. In the same way, I love to hunt or fish for the local favorite when I visit new places. Gulf Shores, Alabama is my new favorite beach/family vacation spot. AL is know for their very fertile red snapper fishing grounds and our partly took the limit of two per person very fast on this day. Had a very large fish fry with these and a dozen or so spanish mackeral.

A differnt kind of trout

A few months before this picture, we were living in Austin and I was catching speckaled trout (salt water). Now, here's picture of Julie with a nice rainbow trout that she caught while we were fishing with our guide for the day, Lisa Mullins, on the White River in NW Arkansas.

We had a blast and all caught trout. I will remember this trip with Julie, Tate and Grant forever!

In memory of Dad

Shortly before moving North, 3 of my Hilti sales men took me on a quided fishing trip with my Dad's favorite fishing guide, Capt Ranier! My dad really loved fishing with Ranier more than just about anything else he ever did. I bet he fished with him at least 25 times, very easily more. I know he sent him many, many clients also.

This day, we fished very hard all day and had just enough for everyone to have a fish dinner with their family.

This day was about remembering past great days!

Been a while, need to get up to date

Here's a shot of my last quail hunt before leaving Texas and moving to Tulsa, OK. This was in a 900 acre pasture that I hunted with my dad since I was 10 years old. One of Dad's best friends, Don Schell, and his black lab Rythem, made the one day trip with me. Weather was not too hot for S Texas and I think we killed 8 or 10 bobwhite quail. Texas has not a any quail to speak of since.

A few more cabo pics

The coolest part of this fishing trip was seeing how different (and the same) fishing can be in another part of the world. I was impressed with the depth of the water near shore, the amount of bait fish around cabo and the amount of game fish within a mile of the marina. I will go back many more times in my life!

Cabo San Lucas

Julie and I went to Cabo for a week in July to celebrate our 10th anniversary. She was nice enough to let me go fishing one day with my cousin Scott. We had a great trip and both put a marlin in the boat. We also caught yellow fin tuna and dorado. Here are pics of the fishing trip.

Turkey hunt with Tate

Tate and I called turkeys in late April together. We listended to two gobblers for about an hour in the morning. We never got them to come close to us. We did catch a couple of fish, but, the big one got off before we got it out of the water. Here are a few pictures of the trip.