Braxton McCoy

It would have went through Flipma, you know?

So we can do this already.

Man, I grew up, we were a poor family.

We didn't have a lot, which is common for a lot of people down there.

I grew up on a small horse place.

My old man trained horses and did electrical work to kind of make ends meet there.

My grandpa was a plumber.

His dad had been a dairyman and failed at that and ended up having to move to the city.

But he was a big-time outdoorsman, him and all of his brothers.

Every one of his brothers enlisted as well.

And so since birth, the...

The thing that we got to enjoy the most as a family was public ground.

We'd go out fishing and just to look at is nice too.

At one time, I think I was about 12, we were up on the mountain and there were some moose down in this pond and my grandma wanted to get

footage of it so i got on the back of the four-wheeler and she drove down there and i'm holding on trying to watch and these it was a cow calf and they started chasing us so i've got like this took this video of a cow calf chasing us when i'm like 12 bouncing on the back of this you know so just even little little memories like that man my grandpa he was real good at tying flies he's best fisherman i ever seen all of his brothers really but he he was a real good fisherman we'd uh

We'd go down to the cricks and he'd get me set up and say, okay, I'm going to go, you know, we'll see who catches the first fish.

And I'd be out there casting away.

And then he'd go sit down and wait for a bug to land on him and catch and make sure it was the right bug that looked like they were eating.

And then he'd get his fly box out, tie on, and he'd start whacking fish.

I think trying to maybe teach me a lesson that took 40 years to learn.