Back in business

Well, I hate to blog or create content when nothing is going on.
I tried 5 or 6 trips from the Susky Flats to Raritan Bay with nothing to show.

I guided a father and son team on freshwater, but it was for mostly fun.

However now there is something to talk about. Raritan Bay is on fire. So is the Barnegat Bay area. The sedges are hot and of course Long Island and Staten Island have all woken up.

I am guiding a client this weekend on Sandy Hook, and going out with the team from Kayakfishingmagazine.net tomorrow.

Pictures and reports to follow. Keep and eye out here, no BS, no self promotion. Just stories from on the water.

Speaking of On the Water the feature article I did is coming out soon and of course the monthly Kayak Corner is ongoing. I just did an article on Kayak Tournament fishing, and my next one is on fishing bridges from the yak.

Time to get going folks. Reach out with any questions

GREAT talking to so many people at the Greater Philly Outdoor Show!
This blogspot is holding my place while I build the guide site. Unlike many guides, my site is last on my list.
Good spots, great equipment, solid network and education anglers and clients comes first. You cant catch fish on a website!

Remember, its hard for us to have package prices because unlike a boat charter or head boat, we are CUSTOM designed for your needs.
A quick guideline,

Around $220 for a fully rigged trip, you just show up after our pre fish meeting.
Around $150 if you got lots of your own Toys you want to use.

Around $99 for an Eco tour, $150 for a family. Guys this is a wonderful way to get the kids and wife to see 'our way'
We have fun games and scientific projects to keep the kids happy and you better bring alot of film or a big video chip!

Thanks for all the great conversation and I will see more of you soon.

A busy time

Surf Day was lots of fun. The challenge of archiving and editing it has just begun. More to come on that. Our youtube channel
www.youtube.com/ospreyoutdoor will have lots of fun stuff to look at.

Hank has done a great job with Graphics. Pamphlet is done, you can see them below. Getting ready for the Philly Show. The web hosting company, westhost, blew up on the first day i handed out cards. great. thanks guys. www.ospreyoutdoor.com goes to a deadlink.

A quick word about my logo. It says alot about me and about how I will run this business. There is a consistent wood look in all my logo, art and graphics, and signage. Its all shot from a single piece of wood. It reminds me of two important things, the care free feeling of a day of fishing and the lessons my father taught me. Let me explain.

When I was a boy I spent plenty of time in cabins next to lakes or near the beach or one of my favorite places McCall Idaho. The cabins always had a spot to hang an old sign with the families name burned in wood. My grandparents had one and it hangs in our house to this very day. You see these everywhere and its the owners way of saying, 'we are here and we are on VACATION dammit!' In my life those signs mean fishing. They also mean family. In a time when we are wary of strangers at every turn, it harkens me back to an age when being nieghborly was just the right thing to do. Stop by for a chat and a drink. Tell some lies, give me a few honey holes and good morrow new friend. That care free feeling is where I want to take my clients, maybe for only a half tide, but it seems damn hard to find even that for some people. So when Hank showed me the latest in a long line of my endless requests, I knew he nailed the first reason this sign is special.

The next reason it is important to me is the wood. It is a piece of Caracarra wood. An exotic. Dont even know where its from. But my basement is littered with all sorts of exotic woods. My father you see was a carpenter, frustrated by having to work in an office for a living. And like Fishing is to me, Woodworking was to him. Sadly, I never shared that passion, but spent UNTOLD and COUNTLESS hours working in that shop. He loved to make all sorts of furniture big and small, but before he died he started may beautiful pieces of art with exotic woods from Willard Brothers down the road. When I started thinking about a logo, I think it was 4 years ago, I knew wood would be a part of it. My dad taught me many bitter sweet lessons in that basement. But the detail of woodworking and the patience and attention to planning and forethought are all part of how I am structuring Osprey Outdoor. I used to encourage him all the time to build furniture or wood work for a living. He was terrified and locked in the American Dream. He had strong opinions and at the end of the day his beliefs left him and us wanting. I will look at my logo and remember to follow my dream. I will use the lessons he raised me by to do it. As with much in my relationship with my father both before and after his death, I look to finish the job, complete the circle and am determined not to let those hard fought lessons be wasted. So the wood was shot by Fishtank and it is part of all my logos and the foundation for all my graphics. I built that logo with Hank from scratch and I hounded him on every last detail.

Thank you Hank and Thanks Nane, Datun, and my Pop. Lastly thanks to the 3 people who will actually read this. LOL.

bye
Shipwreck

VIral Hemmoraghic Septicemia, Video Production, and Graphics

Wow where to start. Very busy with the USDA and Ad-Ventures, our internet marketing company. We are trying to spread the word about VIral Hemmorhagic Septicemia in five Great Lake States. We are designing a photo contest to arouse intrest in stopping the spread of this nasty fish disease. Its mostly carried by bait so CLEAN those LIVEWELLS and DONT TAKE BAIT FROM ONE LAKE TO ANOTHER! VHS can even survive 2 freezings in bait. USE GULP!!!

Crazy with Surf Day 2010. Osprey is shooting it and broadcasting it on Justin TV. Hank is here at Valinor as we tested the live feed yesterday at Brookdale Community College the site of the event next Saturday.

Been buying the right video gear. Our goals with video is simple, yet technology keeps being an issue. I want my stuff to be real and not 'look' or 'feel' a certain way. I want to make the viewer forget about production and focus on the message, not the media. That is not easy however because if you skimp on technology the media is so bad or distracting that definately gets in the way. I want to be real, gritty, and good. I already go to cool places, and see cool things outside all the time. I have always captured photography of those adventures. Now I want to capture video and relay what I see real time in its grand simplicity to you. I dont want to hoot and holler or be a silly fish kisser, my goal is to stay off video and focus on YOU.

I have made a significant investment is both video, sound and editing equipment. The first steps are chronicled on my You Tube Channel below. Now they start getting real.

Lastly, I mentioned FishTank is here. He is doing some great Graphics and Photo work for me. He has re-worked our logo. I am getting some sales material and some display stuff ready for the shows, then its time to focus on fishing!

Remember friends, this blogspot is here as a placeholder until the site goes live. I dont want to release a half assed version of a site so I am taking my time.

Time to start tying into Facebook and Twitter, I am all set there. Also getting ready to save whats left of KFS ass.

see you guys soon.

shipwreck