To all my FAOL friends --

I won't be able to make the Idaho FAOL fish-in this year. My old dawg Kodiak, who is 14, is in the last few days of her life. She has had a reoccuring bladder and kidney infection for a year now, so it's not a big surprise. But this time the test results show no infection, and it's cancer. She's fading fast, and likely won't make it thru next week. Of course I have to stay home with her instead of going fishing, the car trip would be miserable for her. She's been my best friend all those years.

Bye, Kodi. I still remember your first ever face-to-face encounter with a brook trout when you were a puppy. You sniffed it, it flipped, and you jumped 3 feet in the air and ran away yelping! Me and the kids still laugh about it. How you lay in the water behind me (never in front) to cool off while I was fishing, always careful to position yourself out of my backcast--and warn me about the moose if they were coming close.

DANBOB