The fly-fishing gear is… I like waders, I like vests, I like the old time. On a stream and a river. And that always went through my head while I’m in my canoe fishing for bass. I thought, where can I go… to get into that atmosphere, being on a river, and I think that draws everybody to fly-fishing. My future boss… [I asked,] ‘Heh, what’s the fly-fishing like up there?’ He said, ‘Fantastic.’ We got the Brule over there. I didn’t know where all this stuff was. He gave me a familiarity of what this area was like, fly-fishing-wise. It was beautiful. You are only sixteen hours from Montana if you decide to go there.
So I said I’ll take it, and I got transferred up here, and I caught my first trout, my very first trout on a fly rod on the… on the… on the Lester River. That’s why the Lester is always personal with me too… I love that river. But ah, then we do quite a bit now on the St. Louis River, and it’s becoming popular. We’re starting to see drift boats now, which is pretty unusual for our area, that are actually on the St. Louis river, so…
Any sense of why the St. Louis River is beginning to…
Size… size and quantity of fish. I think, one of the things that I’ve always been striving to get… you know… both Wisconsin and Minnesota to realize is that you’ve got a… a potential for a trophy river in itself. I mean, if you look at the muskie population and that’s done… The sizes they are pulling out, it’s phenomenal. Well, we wanted to do the same thing for smallmouth.