ing and taking pictures of Owen River Lodge’s
rooms with the dream of building the exact
same thing on my river. Sitting on the front
porch and looking over the Owen River Valley
alone is worth the tariff.
Felix takes great pride in cultivating the
guide culture. Six guides work exclusively at
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Owen River Lodge, which is really saying
something. Guides are supportive of each
other, professional in every way, and want
their clients to connect with fish as if they
were guiding their own mother.
I was fortunate to fish three days with se-
nior guide David Pike who greeted me with a
hardy “G’Day” and then began the shakedown
to see if his new “sport journalist” lived up to
billing. Years of fly fishing culture between us,
I knew what he was doing, and I was a willing
participate. I needed to prove myself.
But as I write this, you the reader need to
understand something: you’re fishing with