For about 7 years now I have been guiding part of my season out of an AIRE super puma, those that have fished with me know him as “LITTLE BLUE BUS”. He has been a dependable, tough as nails, mini SUV of a raft, and has brought myself and countless others great fishing enjoyment. He has been in the background of hundreds of fishing photo’s from winter steelhead on the Olympic Peninsula to summer trout fishing my favorite strech of the beaverhead. We even gave him a secret mission of MOTH PATROL on the upper Big Hole during very low flows and a moth hatch that resembled snow falling. It is with great sorrow that I must put the Little Blue Bus in the shed for what may be the rest of it’s inflated life, I hope to bring him out for special occasions like a slide down the lower Yak canyon, yes below Roza, or a super sneaky dump off in some little canyon, under stealth only mode. I have a super light custom frame for just two people that I am sure he will be up for the task of floating. I think little blue will apreciate the once yearly use and importance of his stealth only status.
I don’t have a name for my new green super puma but am sure to come up with one, a few of my regular clients and some of the guides that have borrowed little blue bus are sure to chime in with some naming solutions.
I am looking forward to a great fall steelhead season wherever the run takes me and my new raft. To be named at a later date!