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conversations? Or better yet, the quiet times, when the fire crackled and the river played its music, and nobody felt the need to break the silence . . . Kian Tanner. This one is truly personal. My son Kian is about to turn 8. When he's a few years older, I'd like to sit down on a river rock or a wildflowerladen bank and watch him fish for an hour or two. No camera, nobody else around – just Kian and the river. R Spring creeks. Nothing else in fly fishing beats the magic of a spring creek. If you've never waded a stream where the watercress waves gently in the current and every pebble on the bottom shines bright, you owe it to yourself to give it a shot. Light rods, light tippets, small flies, large fish . . . it's the absolute pinnacle of our sport. R Stewardship. While we don't talk about it a whole bunch, most fly fishermen realize that we have a moral obligation to pass on our angling heritage. When I am lying on my deathbed, I want to know that I did my very best to hold up my end; that I've done everything humanly possible to share the grace, the beauty and the magic of fly fishing with future generations. And that means I have to be a steward and a conservationist for as long as I live. Whatever your inspiration, whatever your motivation, I hope you'll do the same. R So those are the items at the very top of my bucket list. What does your list look like? Southern Charm & European Wild Boar Author's Note: As promised, in no particular order, here are my favorite places to scratch that "Lots of Fish" itch: 1) The Missouri River in Montana. The Missouri is tremendous, and it fished out of its mind in 2012. Contact Headhunters Fly Shop or The Trout Shop, both in Craig, Montana. 2) The Kvichak River in Alaska. One of the best rainbow fisheries on the planet. Contact Alaska Sportsman's Lodge. 3) The Blackwater River in British Columbia. If you hit it just right, you may discover that 50 wild rainbows is a slow day. Contact John Blackwell's Moose Lake Lodge. Why hunt feral pigs when you could be hunting one of North America's most extensively managed herd of European wild boar at Buck & Boar in South Carolina? Large party accommodations and corporate outings welcomed. Visit Buck & Boar for incredible true European boar hunting & Southern hospitality at its finest. Buck & Boar www.boar-hunter.com • info@boar-hunter.com 803-600-8570 S P O R T I N G C 72 L A S S I C S