Paul Bobby

The water flow on the White River was too high to wade/walk in. The river normally flows at a depth of a couple of feet and you can walk across the river easily. However, this was a bit unusual in that the Dam was producing power for the high load created by the heat.

A good thing did happen though, in that there are two other dams that hold back river water, and could be fished -- if the power company held back on producing.

We wanted to fish the White anyway and the only way to do it was to hire a guide and his boat. I hemmed and hawed a bit trying to find the right guide. In general, it can be a pig in a poke for quality.

We started looking and ultimately found Paul Bobby -- The GI on the Fly (ex Air Force MP)

Paul was an honest man and suggested that instead of hiring him for a full day and baking in the sun, he would suggest a half day and start that nearer to 3:00 than 12:00

So Paul picked us up at 3:00 and we started fishing around 3:30. The half day ended up in the dark! We didn't get back to the tent until about 9:30 -- and then the temperature was a comfortable 70ish.

Here we are at about 8:30 with the sun just starting to set.