The flyfishin' mortician

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Ta Ta Creek, BC, Canada
I am Dean Buchignani, ( buck-n-nanny) a man in my 40's working hard to live my dream. I started fishing at a young age with my Father & Uncle in Northern BC and soon developed a love of nature & the outdoors. As a teenager the family moved to Vancouver & I began flyfishing and exploring the many lakes and rivers on the coast. As a young adult I began my career washing vehicles at a funeral home and the rest is history, well not quite..... Two years ago my wife and I packed up and moved from Vancouver to the tiny community of Ta Ta Creek in the East Kootenay/Rocky Mountain region of BC. We started the Buck'n'Nanny Lodge, a fishing & hunting lodge. I got my angling guide license, a truck and some new boats & I'm living the dream, well not quite yet..... I do still work at the local funeral home during the week. An old timer once called me the "flyfishing mortician" and that name stuck, although I look forward to loosing the 2nd part of that! Here's my journey!

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Cast away my worries

It was a long winter, I looked through a hole in the ice a few times, but just couldn't seem to see any fish. Once the Kootenay river thawed, I hit a few of my favorite spots,got a few nice cutts, but hadn't got into any big bulls, until last week. After a terrible week at the day job of dealing with the aftermath of a double murder, teen suicide, and a nasty train accident, I needed to slip into my happy place. I took my 5 wt. sage down to the river after work, tied on a big white streamer and began to cast away my worries. On my third cast I felt the big pull of a Kootenay bull, after a 45 minute battle I had the honour of holding a 14lb. beauty. It seemed to make the chaos of my work week melt away. It is now only two weeks until most of the Kootenay rivers and streams open up. I hope I don't have to deal with the same kind of carnage, before I hook into some Skookumchuck cutties.
I'll let you know
FFM.
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