The annual October ritual of pulling, scrubbing and storing the TTL boats has begun. Don and Josh have been working very hard getting the fleet ready for next year.

Another fishing season has come and gone and I hope many of you have a few Big Fish stories to tell your friends this winter.   There are  only 76 days until the 2014 season opens on January 1st. If the weather is mild enough to wet a line on Opening Day, I know Tom and Jon will be somewhere below Murphy Dam swinging their switch rods.

The last week of the season was very good for many people. There were lots of 18″ to 20″ salmon caught on the Trophy Stretch.  In early November Jon and I will do our yearly hike to the Skating Rink Pool to watch the salmon spawning. Fish Porn. It’s pretty cool to see.

Tall Timber 1950sI ran into this oldie but goodie picture of the lodge and the TTL wooden boats taken in the early fifties. As you can see the boats were not the traditional Tall Timber green back then. Every winter the wooden boats were scraped, repaired and painted by my Dad, my brothers and other maintenance men and that’s when they discovered the white paint while scrapping layer upon layer of paint off those boats.

I hope some of you will be going on a faraway fishing adventure in the near future. I know a few folks will be heading to Montana and some will be chasing salmon in Nova Scotia. I hope the fishing gods are good to you.

Thanks everyone for visiting us this season. We really appreciate your business, and we look forward to seeing you next year.