Oh well.
Add that place to the “naughty” list! Sometimes, the best outcome on a pioneering hunting trip is to finally cross a spot off your list. You know the one: it’s been bugging you for years, tempting you with its siren song of lush habitat. That’s what happened yesterday.
Beautiful weather brought out a crowd, relatively speaking, of steelheaders, shivering waist-deep while casting hopefully to the nervous water. In one draw there was even another truck with a dog box parked along the riverside road. But not a shot was fired.
No sign, no tracks. Not a feather or call. Simply glorious surroundings, bluebird weather and the chance for both dogs to get a pre-Christmas romp among the sage and lava rock.
No crash-landings among the boulders. Both dogs unscathed by barbed wire fences. A golden eagle peering from a cliff as we hunted past. That might be enough of a gift on the day before the day before Christmas.
Scott Linden Outdoors 
The day in the field was better spent ,Than the day on the Honey Do list!
MERRY CHRISTMASAND A HAPPY NEW SEASON TO ALL!
Yes, it was. And will be. Gotta get a new license soon!