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Some Days You Just Have to Fight….

by Mark on February 25, 2010

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We’re damned fortunate to enjoy some of the most fisher folk favorable stream access laws in the nation here in Montana.  The nifty access we enjoy today has withstood several challenges over the years, the most recent just months ago (Mitchell Slough…).
Our friends and fishing brethren in Utah are battling one of the most significant [...]

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Lower Madison in the Sun…..

by Mark on February 23, 2010

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Lower Madi at Greycliff yesterday afternoon.
Sunshine.
37 degrees and little wind.
Fishing rising to midges.
Hot damn.

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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 with rod [...]

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Thanks Veterans….

by Mark on November 11, 2009

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Thank a veteran today, and consider supporting (with your time or cash – or both) great organizations like Project Healing Waters or Warriors and Quiet Waters.

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Finally, there might just be some good news for Montana Grayling.
Underscore maybe.
After the debacle of the review opinion from several years ago, the Department of the Interior / Fish and Wildlife Service announced on the 28th of October in the Federal Register the intent to undertake a status review of Arctic Grayling in the Upper [...]

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Worth a Read Today: Aquacalypse Now

by Mark on October 6, 2009

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Ran across an interesting story this morning regarding ocean fishery stocks – Aquacalypse Now.   It’s worth a bit of your time today to ponder.  Here’s how they opened the piece –
Our oceans have been the victims of a giant Ponzi scheme, waged with Bernie Madoff–like callousness by the world’s fisheries. Beginning in the 1950s, [...]

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On the Lower Madison (Warm Springs to Blacks ) this morning early as Jake had to be at work by noon; it was calm, cloudy, 59 and just getting light when we left Warm Springs but the day gave way to sun and increasingly pesky winds.
Shane and Jake were pounding streamers much of the day [...]

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Unexpected Fun on the Lower Madison……

by Mark on September 17, 2009

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After a busy few weeks around our camp getting things done that needed to get done, we finally decided to get back to doing something really important and went fishing yesterday afternoon.
After some scrimping and saving, doing without and some gnashing of teeth, Jake and I pooled some cash and wrangled a discount out of [...]

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