Greg Hatten's Page

Thanks Greg. What a great site, now it's going to be real tough to get some work done.

Greg,

thanks for the invite, but I must decline. Pretty much all my precious non-commercial boat time is spent on other rivers these days,so unless I have a new (old) boat that I need to try out, and can't talk my boss into paying me to run it (a neat trick when I can manage it), I like to go do rivers I don't know that well.

Here are emails for John and Curt. John rowed the Susie Two for a while, and Curt maintains the remaining Keith Steele boats.

Curtis Chang <curt@oars.com>

John Blaustein <john@johnblaustein.com>

Hey Greg,

Thank's for the greeting. I'm carzy about spey fishing for steelhead.

Thye carzy thing is I learned spey in Ireland 25 years ago. When I took my home wound Sage 9140 to the oregon coast back then most people had never seen a spey rod. Later , i befrended Mike Maxwell (may God rest his soul) and the spey thing went viral. Living most of theyear on the Jefferson in MT a fairly large river - I spend a lot of afternoon swinging a neat little 6wt speyrod for big browns - and have caught a few - I tell the few DBs that pass by that I'm just practicing for steelhead.

My wife and I spent all of last September on the Kispiox and Skeena - went to heaven without having to die!

Tom

I'm really thinking about buying/haveing one built, a dear river type slead in wood and epoxy. Any thoughts on builders or designs?

Thanks for the warm welcome, Greg! This is a great site, and I hope to contribute a bit, through my restoration work currently, then the maiden voyage and successive trips guiding in my boat this summer. Hope I fixed the damn leak ;-) Also hope to learn lots, and keep up on building techniques.

In Wild Waters,

Zac

its a great town.  let me know if you come back.  catching a 20 lb redfish on the fly will make you want to quit that river fishing business and move to the ocean.  in all seriousness, oregons not too bad either.  i just can't deal w/ the lack of sun all winter.