My trip with Dave Tatman
 

My article in Parker Pages has come so I thought I would share this short video I made about it. Thanks again Dave.
https://youtu.be/lhUHi024NL0

Excellent as always Mike as is the article. Keep up the good work.

It was a trip of epic proportions, Mike, made more so by the presence of great friends like you, Mike Cowles, and others. Thanks for being a part of it, and I look forward to many more experiences in and around northern MI, as well as any other parts of this planet to which our adventures call us!

Dave

Well done video Mike! Gets the mind and juices running!! thank you.

just great......charlie

I have been there many times. We used to have a cabin on KP Lake just south of Lovells. A friend of mine guides fishermen and bird hunters from there and the young man who manages the shop is a PGCA member.

I really enjoyed the video...and the article! Thanks for sharing both with us.

Rich - My cabin is 8 miles south of Lovells, and I suspect I know most of the "usual suspects" in the area. who is your friend, and which shop is he in - Fullers?

Exactly right, John. John Nagel is a terrific young guy who runs the fly shop for Judy at Fuller's. He has added some terrific Parker memorabilia to the shop's vintage accessories. He and I connected a couple years ago, I think, when I was hunting out of that lodge one day. As Rich mentioned, John is a PGCA member and an all-around good guy.

Rich - Would love to catch up with you sometime in that area. I fish or hunt (or both) in and around Crawford County for about four weeks every year.

Dave

Dave that would be wonderful except that I spend the month of October at my place in the U.P. Your more than welcome to come and hunt or I could swing by on the way up.

John I know John Nagel I met him last year at Fullers with Josh Nethers who guides fishermen and bird hunters. Several folks from the PGCA have hunted or fished with Josh.

Josh is good people. He plows my cabin driveway in the winter. I actually guided him on a fishing trip about 10 years ago

Good stuff Mike. I enjoyed the article and now the video. Thanks !! If you ever have an opening I'm not to far from you boys here in Southern IN and I have some Pappy to !:)

Loved it. I love fishing the Au Sable River. Thanks for sharing

Excellent video (as usual), Mike!

Mike is the man!!

It doesn't get much better than the Au Sable. I fished that in my HS days.

Thanks Randy! I appreciate the kind sentiments. I’ll be in touch.

The Oxbow is a very special place. From the last weekend in April to the last weekend in October it’s a retreat from a hectic life. From the early hatches of Hennies, through June with Drakes and Hexes, into July and August swinging mice into the wee hours of the morning it’s a tough but rewarding water. But come September the rods are replaced by shotguns and bird dogs are welcome and rolling back into the club after a long day chasing grouse and woodcock in time for a shower before cocktail hour and dinner is about as good as it gets.

One of the Oxbow's owners is my next-door-neighbor

Well stated, Jay. You, like Mike, have painted a word picture of all that the OxBow has come to mean to its grateful members.

Thanks, my friend.

Dave

"grateful members"; it's probably worth noting that more than a few members chose to have their ashes deposited in the river in front of the club.

One of my favorite evenings at the Oxbow was when you and your compadres were there. After dinner, a fire in the fireplace, a couple of fingers of Pappy, dogs asleep on the couch, listening to your Bluegrass Trio jam with guitars, mandolin and banjo. That's going to be hard to beat anywhere.