I was raised in the eastern hill country, just south of Canton, Ohio and spent a good portion of my early life in reminants of what was once called the 'Big Woods'; the hickory, oak and beech hardwood forests. My earliest childhood memories are the long walks in the April mushroom woods and playing in the brook behind the family home. At age ten, I was given a beagle puppy and together we chased every cottontail rabbit in our local neighborhood. I fell in love with fur bearer trapping at age eleven; and with a basket of #1 longsprings, learned of muskrats in the nearby creeks and marshes. Throughout my teens I spent the Autumns in the colorful Ohio hardwoods chasing grey and fox squirrels. With a brace of beagles in my teens, many a cottontail graced the family table along with a few ruffed grouse. My Dad, my neighbor, Mr. Barrick, and I always foud time to hunt the delectable morel mushroom during the springtime among the may apples. Dad and I fished the Ohio resevoirs and farm ponds for catfish, sunfish, and bass during the summer months.  After years of reading 'Outdoor Life', 'Field and Stream' , and Sports Afield stories of the famed Boundary Waters Canoe Area and Quetico Provincial Park wildernesses, I packed all my belongings in April of 1983 and headed 'North to Minnesota', "I had to see this place called the Northwoods." Once here, I knew it was home and prepared to make my name as a wilderness guide and trapper. After several years working for various canoe outfitters and resorts, I struck out on my own in 1988 and became a freelance wilderness guide. In 1992, Jasper Creek Guide Service, Inc. was formed and it has grown steadily ever since. At date, Jasper Creek Guide Service, Inc. boasts an impressive 85% plus clientele return rate, and offers several popular canoe trip/ fishing trip options into the BWCA/ Quetico areas. My wife, Joan and I have expanded over the last 3 years to include deluxe lodging and custom outfitted trips. I take great pride in my  wilderness canoe and fishing trips- my equipment is always in working order, tried and proven.  I pride myself on the preperation of  campfire meals, and most of all, the personal service that Jasper Creek  provides. I believe is second to none, "Once you experience a trip into this Superior/ Quetico country, the area will sell itself to you. It is that beautiful! The gamefish are here and therefore the angling opportunities will hook you as well.  I feel that the only item that I can offer; that will set me apart from the rest, is the personal service rendered."

 Dean Bushey  teamed up with Don Beans' Jasper Creek Guide Service, Inc. in 2008. Dean has done a fine job working with customers on the ways of wilderness walleyes the past two seasons. He reputation in the wilderness is getting known and has several repeat clientele.  He has proven his campfire culinary skills  and prepares a fine Northwoods Shorelunch!  As this update is being written (October), he is currently still in the BWCA with clients along with his hunting retriever searching for ruffed grouse. Dean enjoys the wingshooting found here in the Northwoods. He is a definite asset to Jasper Creek Inc. and is looking foward to the 2010 season.

Dean was born in Wisconsin's Northwoods and was raised by a father who taught him to respect and understand the wonders of nature as the two of them hunted and fished together. Dean learned of trapping with his uncle, and the two of them harvested beaver, otter, mink and muskrat around the Willow flowage. He also learned to expertly handle a canoe early in his youth, paddling the Turtle- Flambeau and Willow flowages of his home state. 

As a young man, his adventurous spirit inevitably brought him to the Quetico/ Superior country. He has now been exploring the BWCA backcountry for the past thirty plus years. His continued passion with the Northwoods and that ever present adventurous spirit has allowed him to make  numerous sojourns to remote Woodland Caribou and Wabakimi Provincial Parks in Ontario, Canada .

Dean's other hobbies include (when there is no paddle in his hands)-  cross country skiing, mountain biking, hunting birds with his Chesapeake Bay retriever, Willow; icefishing, and hiking, back packing and exploring the trails less traveled.