January 2010

Via Nova Craft Canoe…

Three weeks or so ago temperatures in the neighborhood were fighting like hell to break the zero mark. Yesterday afternoon on the lower Madison (Blacks Ford to Greycliff) we saw a fair number of fisher-folk and temps in the 50 degree range (53 to be exact). There were fewer fish and a few more mistakes [...]

Fish Can’t Read’s e-magazine has been sold – it’s official today. From their blog today- Life has a funny way of throwing a surprise or two into the mix when we’d least expect it. Sometimes those surprises take the form of sobering challenges that tax our resources to the max. Sometimes those surprises take the [...]

The first week of January almost inevitably finds lots of fly fisher folk itchy to get out and stretch after the holiday season. This year in particular finds me among that cadre – the past six weeks or so (since Thanksgiving) have been the busiest in memory and it’s been damned cold around the neighborhood. [...]