![]() He immediately said yes, and submitted his application for his guides license. So we contacted Dave’ friend of 30+ years, Jeff Smith, and asked it he would work for Diamond D. I loved the thought of it, however it didn’t seem too realistic to again drive all that way, plus another 4 hours to the Ranch to guide for perhaps a weekend. It was the spring of 2004 when we received an email from Kara Demorest at the Diamond D Ranch near Stanley, Idaho asking us if we would be willing to guide in the Frank Church Wilderness (the largest designated wilderness area in the lower 48). ![]() I was working 10-12 hours a day 6 days a week in a managing a catering facility. Ah the journey in those days was grueling on Dave. So after 12 hours of guiding, an 8 hour return drive back to Seattle, he would pull in the drive, beat and weary from his weekend and off to work his job by 5 a.m. Dave had another job, working construction on some of the finest homes in Seattle’s Queen Ann District. drive over to guide for a day, spend time with his daughter and drive back, he was limited to weekends. When the occasional Owyhee request would come in, Dave would take his old Toyota 4-Runner and drive the 8 hr. We were living in Seattle then, and guided some of the well known steelhead streams on the West side of the state. We sat down to a computer and developed a logo, opened a checking account, obtained our business license, and I figured out how to build a website, we were off and running. I said “ok” and we began our part time business Dreams on the Fly. Journeys Part 1 10 years ago when Dave and I began this business of “guided fly fishing” he said we’d never be able to make a living at it.
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