Some days you just need a little drool in your life. Our crew hanging around (temporary) camp Chi Wulff South have been feeling powerfully homesick this week. Same thing happened with the advent of the holiday season last year. Talking to friends back home about snow in the hills, hearing stories of nice elk and [...]
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the act of anticipating or the state of being anticipated realization in advance; foretaste expectation or hope previous notion; slight previous impression intuition, foreknowledge, or prescience Heading back to home country. Finally. T minus 36 hours (more or less) until launch. Non-stop (more or less) Austin to Bozeman with cataraft in tow. Gear to blog [...]
Duty is a cruel master. – Col. Thaddeus Gearhart, The Hallelujah Trail That quote has come to mind on more than one occasion during the past year of our self-imposed, business-induced exile in Texas. Various members of our team have been back and forth to home in Bozeman several times during the past year. She [...]
Ah, the pedestrian life.
1. Check out the new Bonefish and Tarpon Trust video above. Tag your bones. 2. Pick up a copy of Andy Mill’s A Passion for Tarpon. Pete says it’s worth a read. 3. Add the new Varney gauge on the Madison to the monitoring routine. Simple but mighty useful data. 4. Tie some of these. [...]
It’s mid-march, there’s pretty much a week of rain and snow forecast for the home country, and fishy minds are starting to count the days until spring. Two exceptional posts you need to read (if you haven’t already) will sharpen your anticipation of spring to come. From In the Back Eddy – The Promise of [...]
Sometimes you never know what kind of people you can meet. The other night at the fly shop, I was bored out of my mind. Staring at the tv, mindlessly watching some cheesy instructional video, the minutes crawled by. The sound of a vest being zipped up caught my attention. Someone was actually shopping. What [...]
Renaissance man –noun 1. a cultured man of the renaissance who was knowledgeable, educated, or proficient in a wide range of fields. 2. (sometimes lowercase as in renaissance man) a present-day man who has acquired profound knowledge or proficiency in more than one field. 3. Michael Gracie and his 957 vise. (Just as you don’t [...]
Stumbled across this bit of sardonic humor yesterday on Barry Ritholtz’s blog yesterday – a set of pics from a recent New Yorker article / post reviewing travel related cartoons they’d published over the years. Ritholtz also thoughtfully provided contact information to report inappropriate behavior on the part of the TSA. I would guess the [...]
Back on the 18th of June a post I wrote about living the pedestrian life as the family black sheep resonated with a fair number of our readers – it would seem that a fair number of fly fishing folks out there live black sheep, pedestrian lives as well. Welcome to the fold. Those of [...]
I have a confession to make. I am a black sheep – the confirmed black sheep of not only my own extended family, but particularly my wife’s as well. I might qualify as a stealth black sheep in some folks’ eyes given my educational and professional pedigree; but don’t be fooled, I am a genuine [...]
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