Summer is a flying.

Resort stuff- we've hired a full time dock manager to fill the big shoes of Jerry Newcomb. His name is Lincoln Hunt. He has stayed with us with his parents for the past 10 years or so. He is a school teacher from Dallas, retired for now. Not married, 36 today? Loves to fly fish and talk about it... you should see him on the forum shortly. He will be in the office alot doing double duty.

We are going to start selling online within 6-8 weeks or so. I'm looking at shopping cart programs. We will offer a variety of fishing stuff- fly tying material, flies, some rods and reels, jigs of course and lures, fish related gifts and apparel. Hopefully it won't be your run-of-the-mill offerings. Linc will be a big part of the management of the online store. We'll see how it goes.

Dock project - stalls are finished. Can't add anymore cause we're out of room. Next is adding another gas tank and feed to the upper end of the dock, then the building/dock shop/club- whatever you call it.

Fishing has been nominal at best this summer. Blame it on low stock numbers, drought, hard generation, clear water... whatever. You might say we've been so spoiled to have good to great trout fishing ALL the time for so long that we forgot what it's like to work for them. But that's hard on the novices and disappointing to those who counted on catching fish on their vacations.

The white bass run at Moonshine on Table Rock was a saving grace for alot of the guides for most of the summer. Buster, Bill, Tim, Bill and Tim started most mornings at 5:30 and jigged a spoon for 'em. Kentuc's have been fair till now- now they're tough.

Dry fly fishing on Taney has been good most of the summer but we're close to getting into the meat of the season... dries will rule this fall on Taney! We are looking forward to that!

Babler and I just booked a flight to King Salmon, AK for 10 days in August. We're going up to help a friend of mine, Jim Johnson, who bought a place on the Naknek River. He's hosts clients for week stays and needs help for a week guiding. We will try.

The forum is going well. I'm still amazed at the numbers. The prayer request forum is a big step for me. It's extremely intimidating to me to post here cause it's not like giving fishing advice... if I'm wrong- oh well. This is people's lives. We take it very seriously. I had not given Chuck proper permission to reply on it but he has it now. For now, only the three of us are allowed to reply to requests. I've had some emails asking. The last thing I want is for any part of OAF to become a religious battering field.

Newletter to come out in September. Want to have one printed and in hand for the FFF conclave in October.