Some of us who labor tirelessly from our cramped, dank and dark back offices to author Chi Wulff are also involved with a fly fishing and river related media company – Dry Fly Media.
(Hasty note to self – maybe that title is not the right way to say what I’m trying to say. When I say ‘New from our friends at Dry Fly Media’, can you be friends with yourself? I guess you should be, though clearly we’ve all run into people who don’t seem at all to be friends with themselves. Suddenly I have this picture of a small, somewhat dull-minded puppy chasing his own tail in an ever-shrinking circle like Sambo – that must mean my logic is getting into that stalled circular pattern and it’s time to move on. Damn, I did it again….)
Though the seemingly endless Montana winter (actually, it wasn’t that bad this year) we received a number of requests from fly fisher friends and folk living across the fruited plain that were remarkably similar.
The requests trickled in from a diverse collection of folks – young and old, paupers and wealthy, highly skilled and nubes, men and women, even east coast and west coast folks (yes, we do have maps and some limited knowledge of national geography here in Montana).
Folks have been asking if Dry Fly Media would accompany them to the field and river and film a day fishing with friends or family on the fabled waters of the neighborhood.
I’ve got to be frankly honest, when the requests started to trickle in we thought it was a joke, and had a few laughs about it around the dinner table and at the bar. We’ve had have a bucket full of projects planned for ‘the season’ ourselves, some commercial projects to shoot, and at first couldn’t see how it could make sense to do.
As the requests continued to trickle in, we started to take the concept a bit more seriously. We were hearing many of the same stories from good people. Many of the stories related how with the economy as it is these days (and with the hope for a rapid recovery now vanished like cheeseburgers and tots at Mark’s in Livingston after a long day on the river) many folks around the country were planning that long put off trip or return trip to Yellowstone and Big Sky country.
These good people wanted to record their trip with family or friends to preserve the memory of great times on great water in great surroundings. We looked around for a model to shape a program after and couldn’t really find one.
Bottom line – we’ve done a bit of head-scratching and have come up with a program we’re calling Trip Clips. Click on the link to head over to the Trip Clips page on Dry Fly Media for a more serious and detailed explanation of what we think folks have been asking for.
Yep, we think it sounds sort of crazy too; we’ve also spent some time thinking about all the nifty things we enjoy in 
the fly fishing and the real worlds that started off as something of a ‘crazy idea’ as well. Like Velcro. Chili Dogs. Cheetos. Cell phones. Al Gore’s internet. You get the idea.
Discounts are in play for early sign ups, and space is quite limited. We’ll have to talk about how crazy the idea is / was later this fall.
See you in the viewfinder…..
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