Hearing this today is one of the saddest things I've heard in a long time...a really long time.

Justin was one of my most fun and constant fishing buddies for a while...but life intervened, and not in a good way.

It's sad because Justin was one of the nicest, most generous, and funniest guys you could ever be lucky enough to be around. I've missed him a lot over the last few years, and we talked about him a bit a couple of weeks ago when we were drifting his namesake river...the river where he and I caught a LOT of steelhead and had a LOT of laughs back in the day.

Being a great guy and a great fisherman doesn't insulate you from the all the bad things in this world.

I don't know what else to say.

Fish on...

Todd