{"id":7932,"date":"2016-06-17T18:52:10","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T18:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/idsunmedia.com\/?p=7932"},"modified":"2016-06-17T18:52:10","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T18:52:10","slug":"wyatt-landrum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/2016\/06\/17\/wyatt-landrum\/","title":{"rendered":"WYATT LANDRUM"},"content":{"rendered":"

Working in Alaska with <\/i><\/span>fishing guide company<\/i><\/span><\/h2>\n

BY JONATHAN KANE<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

W<\/span>yatt Landrum, a graduating senior at Wood River High School, grew up in the Wood River Valley and has a passion for the outdoors.<\/span><\/p>\n

That\u2019s probably why he\u2019s so excited to be leaving for Alaska this week for the summer to work with a fishing guide company.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a dream come true,\u201d Landrum said. \u201cI\u2019ll be what is called a dock hand and we will be on the Togiak River. I\u2019ll be helping with the clients and all their needs and assisting on a variety of tasks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve always wanted to go to Alaska for fishing,\u201d Landrum said. \u201cA close friend of mine worked as a commercial fisherman and he told me all about it and it got me really excited. I also have a family member up there that is a helicopter pilot. Plus, I\u2019ll be doing what I love \u2013 fly fishing for salmon and trout!<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cMy dad started taking me fishing when I was about 9 years old,\u201d Landrum said. \u201cI started fly fishing at about 15. My best memory was when I caught my first brown trout at Silver Creek. It was really exciting because it\u2019s a unique fish with a unique pattern and really fun to catch because they put up a good fight.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cLearning was pretty hard,\u201d he said. \u201cIt took a few months to adapt to it and learn how to cast and tie knots.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI got a fly-fishing kit for my birthday and it\u2019s going pretty good. I just tied my first brown drake fly that I\u2019m using at Silver Creek.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s so beautiful down there and it\u2019s really fun because of the slow-moving water,\u201d Landrum said. \u201cIt\u2019s also incredibly quiet.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Landrum also likes to hunt and used the principles of Native Americans for his senior project, creating tools based on their technology.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI made three arrows and a spear the same way Native Americans created them,\u201d he said. \u201cI got the idea from a friend that is a primitive bow hunter. He has experience and he knows what he\u2019s doing and how to get it done. I really look up to him.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe arrows were created from bamboo and I made and sharpened an obsidian tip. I attached the tip, after sharpening it with antler tips, with sinew from an animal and pinesap to attach it. Each one took about five hours to make.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey turned out great,\u201d Landrum said. \u201cThey flew really straight and spun naturally. I was really happy that something I could make could actually work.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Working in Alaska with fishing guide company BY JONATHAN KANE Wyatt Landrum, a graduating senior at Wood River High School, grew up in the Wood River Valley and has a passion for the outdoors. That\u2019s probably why he\u2019s so excited to be leaving for Alaska this week for the summer to work with a fishing […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,38,41],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-schools","8":"category-sponsored","9":"category-student-spotlight"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/woodriverweekly.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}