A nifty graphic from Jessica Hagy via Flowing Data. This relationship probably holds true for much more in life than just fly fishing.
November 2009
Damn has it been windy over in Paradise Valley of late. The pic above was taken a few days ago – clearly the leaves have mostly blown down out of the Cottonwoods and there’s more snow in the hills. Yellowstone River devotees are used to battling breezes of varying power, though when the big boys [...]
Another short and sweet report from the Missouri today. Fishing has been decent pretty damned good the past week; there have been olives in places but the typical approaches nymphing and chucking streamers have been working very, very well. The river has been a ghost town for the most part; few boats and just a [...]
In my report on the Bitterroot yesterday I talked about the forecast for the week not looking bad. The Clark Fork is in somewhat similar shape to most of our rivers over here, there’s nymphing to be done in the mornings with the shrinking dry fly window narrowing to the warmest of the afternoon hours. [...]
Our new friend Jacob Robidiou who blogs over at The Year on the Fly 2009 has a nifty post up about Yankee Jim Canyon on the Yellowstone River downstream a bit from Gardiner – read Redemption Canyon here. That’s his pic of the canyon taken from the less often visited west side. Jake is [...]
All things considered, this should be a decent week on the river. The forecast this morning is calling for a little more sun than I’d like to see, but low 50’s the first week of November makes for a nice afternoon on the water whether your getting much done fishing or not. Sometimes we just [...]
Jake and I had the pleasure of sitting down with Scott Hale late last week, a very talented local painter of landscapes and things piscatorial. That’s one of Scott’s pieces above, and one from AD Maddox below. Scott (who in the interest of full disclosure neither of us had ever met before last week) had [...]
Every year about this time the Bighorn has a couple weeks of tougher fishing. The lake is turning over, discoloring the water somewhat but this will subside later this month. Last week, flows went up to over 3,400 cfs, which as you might imagine had a negative impact on the trout. But the water has [...]
Wow, this fall is really going by fast. It always seems that right about now is when I realize I didn’t do as much fishing this fall as I wanted to. But, if Mark and I did do all the fishing we wanted, this site would never be updated. It’s a trade off. The Beaverhead [...]
The Big Hole, despite our early season dance with winter over the past few weeks, has been fishing pretty well, at least on the lower sections. For those so inclined, egg patterns have been the go to ‘fly’; I know, there are folks who will rant and rave about even a mention of this approach. [...]
