I tend to think that we fly fishing anglers have something of a schizophrenic relationship with dams. By this I mean we are of two minds on the subject, and those two minds seem to operate best when they feel the other does not exist. The popular opinion, of course, is that dams are inherently [...]
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A week from today I will be in the midst of my first major trip of the year, a couple of days on the Missouri river near Craig, MT, hopefully throwing dries and streamers (and the occasional pink nymph) to browns and rainbows of various sizes and dispositions. I’ve still yet to replace the camera [...]
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My dad taught me how to cast–Maclean style on the back lawn. He taught me how to tie my first fly–a woolly worm. We’ve spent time on rivers and lakes and in cars and trucks traveling to and from those places. I believe those moments can’t be obtained in other ways, not exactly. Something about [...]
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I was born and raised and taught to fly fish in Utah. Now I live a mere 3.5 hours to the north of the Beehive State so perhaps its natural that I tend to have some part of my eyes and ears trained on the state. One way to follow the goings on to the [...]
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I am not sure when I first started obsessively reading the back page of Fly Fisherman magazine. I imagine I was in high school, but I might have been slightly younger or a little older. I am pretty sure I hadn’t left for college yet because I remember hunting and pecking through a stack of [...]
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I haven’t fished at all since before Thanksgiving. I enjoy fishing in the winter and I wish I had gotten out on one of the bluebird weather days we’ve been lucky enough to have in my corner of the world recently, but other responsibilities conspired to keep me away from the river. Winter fishing is [...]
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Folks in Montana are gathering to develop a management plan for the famed Madison. While something like this seems overdue considering the tales I have heard of the rubber hatch on the lower river (see the link above for more info), one can’t help but worry about what Malcolm Gladwell described as “creeping determinism,” or [...]
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I spent a few hours today throwing massive streamers in hopes of moving some fish. Some part of me was hoping to catch a truly large brown trout. This is the season for it. The tail end of fall. Many brown trout are either preparing to spawn or have just finished. I was hoping the [...]
A buddy and I just spent three days fighting the weather in search of big trout on a local lake. Some success and some failure later, this image was one of the results. He took it with the camera on his smartphone. I did a little post processing and quite like the way it turned [...]
Took this on a recent trip. I’m not sure where the blue came from other than maybe the sky reflecting of the surface water. Anyway, I kind of like the effect.
Recently, there was a great Joe Posnanski post (its curiously long) about the last night of the MLB (baseball) regular season. For those unfamiliar, let me summarize (don’t worry, it will be quick, I understand the being unfamiliar with the end of the MLB regular season is a choice you’ve made). The last night of [...]
A couple of weeks late on this one, but I wanted to give Fly Fisherman’s Ross Purnell some kudos for bringing attention to the stream access fight. Check out his article here in which he calls Utah a “battleground state.” Money quote: The decision was a time for rejoicing for Utah anglers, but it was short-lived. In [...]
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