I thought I'd share this here, inspired by Dobrien, honestly. After asking for input on the name of the boat here I decided that "Adios" had a nice ring to it. A while back a friend of mine who's a wildlife photographer came out fishing, brought his drone and got footage of us tearing across Pyramid Lake in the Paiute Reservation. This is a very special body of water...a place I hold in respect in the middle of the reservation. Anyway, my buddy sent the footage to the company that built my boat for me and they liked it enough to feature it on the page for the model "Seahawk Fastback". My boat is the green one in the video. Enjoy. Had this baby for a few years now and it's been a fantastic adventure. I may guide on this boat in the future. Maybe take wounded veterans or disenfranchised kids out for a day of fishing. I had a fishing pole in my hands by the time I got out of diapers and recreational fishing seems like a dying pastime in America...unless you're a poacher...haha. My boat is a 50th-Anniversary edition and they have built a limited number of this model. I recently saw a picture of the staff and their wives and babies in the shop to celebrate their 50th year with two boats behind them in bare aluminum and I'm pretty sure the Fastback in the pic is mine. They were sending me pics as they built it and in bare aluminum it really was beautiful. I worked so hard to get to where I could acquire this beauty and everywhere I take it I hear so much appreciation for it by other fishermen and boaters.

In the clip you can see my deck brush, fishing gear, and downrigger clips swinging around in the wind. We were tearing across to the other side. The short distance across the lake is about 7 miles and the long length of the lake is close to 30 miles. It's in the high desert and, as the Paiutes say, "If you respect the lake it will respect you." Many boats and fishermen have been lost on this lake. The standard advice is, "If you see dust kicking up on the north shore get off the lake ASAP." I consider it an inland sea. The Truckee river leaves Lake Tahoe and fills this lake, with nothing flowing out. As a result it's somewhat saline and alkaline. The lohantan cutthroats grow very large, the world record (from here) is a little over 40#. You can learn of their story here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnGy4... . I have become friends with a couple of the Paiutes and the stories they tell me about the lake are amazing. In the video you can see on the north shore a place called "The Needles" which looks to me like a range of huge peaks formed by millions of years of geothermal activity. In the middle of it is a geyser that shoots 100 or more feet in the air.