Fish People

Pictures of people I've had the chance to fish with. Many are folks I've met through Westfly and/or VFS boards, but some are family or work friends as well.

Online Friends

From left: Scott, Vern, and Greg Moore prepare to drift from Red's to Roza. Photo by Steve Joyce

Scott and Troutdeli at Milepost 19. Photo by ToolFly

Troutdeli shows off a nice fish at the top of the Rock Garden

Tomaz Modic (Fish1), my guide and fishing partner in Slovenia, October 2002

Tim Price (timefo) with a fish taken along "Bank of the Year"

From left: Scott, brother Bill, Rhonda Price and Dave Tucker on the Grande Ronde. Dave and Rhonda take turns being "Winddknot" on Westfly, and guide on the Grande Ronde, among other places.

What a motley crew! Scott and Vern fish in the rock garden

From left: Jim Thomas and Vern Crow sit in the boat while Scott dawdles, summer 2004

Jake Quesnell catches his first Yakima trout on a fly, summer 2004

Jack Smith (whose screen name escapes me at the moment) hoists a trout from the bank just below Bighorn, summer 2004

Other Fishing Friends

For many years, I have been active in the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable. Each year, the NPPR holds an annual meeting somewhere in the US. A tradition has emerged over the years, with several of the meeting participants sneaking off the last afternoon of the meeting, to fish the nearest water. Most of these pictures are of Pollution Prevention (P2) PhlyPhisher Phorum members.

from left: Andy Bray and Crispin Stutzman, fellow tree huggers and save-the-earth-do-gooders, participate in one of the annual outings following the National Pollution Prevention Roundtable meeting in Portland, OR

Crispin, finding freezing to death amusing.

Isao Kobashi is one of the Phounding Members of the P2 PhlyPhishers Phorum

So is Dave Hartley, seen here trying his hand on the Deschutes, during our drive back from Portland to the Yakima

From left: Eva, Tapio and Kristina Kuusinen. Tapio was a close work friend who died of cancer in 2003, about 9 months after this picture was taken. He and I drifted the canyon many times together.

Fishing Family

My mom with a fish she caught, probably back east. She may have grown up in Manhattan, but she definitely acquired a passion for fishing.

My dad, Bob Butner, wrestles with a monster in 1974, during a week-long outing to the B.C. interior. Most of the fish we caught were, dare I say, much larger than this.

My dad and brother, Bill, fishing together during the same trip.

My brother Bill taught me most of what I know about fishing, and is still the best fisherman in the family.

Bill scouts for trout at a "secret" spring creek in Washington State, one which dare not speaketh it's name.

Me (I'm family, too!) in the Grand Tetons. Photo by Andy Bray.