Welcome to the Jay Scott Outdoors podcast. Today we have Chris Geikama of Compass West Outfitters. Chris, how you doing?

I'm doing great Jay. How are you?

I'm doing great.

Today I want to talk about the New Mexico Big Game Regulations and the Hunts, the

draw, the deadline's coming up here on March 20th at 5 p.m. and I know you do a lot of

guiding in New Mexico so I wanted to get you on the podcast to talk about all of the ins and outs of New Mexico hunting.

But before we do that, Chris, I would like to kind of get a brief history on where you grew up your background kind of where you started guiding and so forth and then we'll kind of dive into New Mexico.

All right, cool man.

Yeah, I mean, I've been, I've been down here since 97 in New Mexico,

but I grew up in Michigan, kind of cut my teeth on the Great Lakes Steelhead and

salmon industry and I moved out to Montana in 1990 I believe and kind of got into the guiding game up there.

I was working as a chef.

That's my background in college training is culinary arts and I was working as a chef and a

guide in Montana until I moved to New Mexico in 1997.

So Chris, when I first remembered you, quote unquote, on the scene was,

I haven't been in years, but I used to fish at the San Juan River in New Mexico below Navajo Lake there, the quality waters of the San Juan River.

I know you have a vast amount of experience on the San Juan River.

Talk a little bit about your guide service there and I believe you had a lodge and talk

about some of those days back on the San Juan.

Oh yeah man I mean I was living the dream.

I came down from Montana to New Mexico, I got out of the cold.

I came down and was living in the heart of some of the best mule deer country in the lower 48 and

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