Can't believe it's finally almost here. I've been drooling with anticipation since I first heard of this contest in the last week of June last year.
I live outside Chicago, but I'll probably do a lot of my contest fishing in southern Wisconsin. I'll be ecstatic to break 20 species, happy with 15. It's a busy month, and I'll be traveling to Seattle and Port Townsend with my 2 kids (to a cousin's wedding, so lots of family obligations while there) for a week and a half of it, so will likely do no fishing during that time. I'll be packing a rod or two, though, just in case. I figure they should at least let me go fishing for a few hours on Father's Day. I wonder what fresh water species exist out there that don't exist here...
I put new line on 2 new fly reels last night, so I'm ready.
Olaf (Gunnar is my middle name)


Now I'm going to get busy copying photos from other people's life lists and photoshopping myself into them, changing backgrounds, and leaving a blank cirle into which I'll paste the button later. I should have 100 species by June 1st.