Rawthumb, I know exactly who you are talking about. His name is Jeff Phaender.

We guided together at Kulik. He still lives in the Tigard area.

So you know RK? When I was living in Bend I taught Kaufmann's fishing school in Maupin with Bob Guard. I have also worked at the Tigard shop.

Randall has always been a very good friend to me and both he and Lance are great guys.

It is funny that my two heros growing up were Jack Dennis and RK. I ended up working for both of them and becoming friends to the point that we fish together.

The problem with SW ALaska just like most places is that it has become just too accessible.

The rivers are still good but IMO the last really good year was around 1991 or 1992.

At that time usually you would only see maybe one or two groups on a particular piece of water for the day.

Every year after just got worse and worse with more and more groups sharing limited amounts of water.

It is at the point now that most days you get one hole and then you spend the rest of the day fishing behind the other groups on the river.

That is the main reason I quit guiding for Kulik after the end of the 1996 season.

Rob