Chatting with folks back home we’ve heard more than one comment about the (relative) lack of snow so far this year. The past couple of winters have brought heavy, lingering snowpacks that changed the fly fishing dynamic throughout much of the northern Rockies and with another La Nina in place this winter, the forecast has [...]
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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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Back in the office after an early morning strategy meeting with some of our real world business team and lo and behold, there’s some weather moving in. There’s even a little lightning starting to pop and thunder rolling…..a longer post about fishing (and other) news from Yellowstone will have to wait….our power tends to fail [...]
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So I’m checking the weather back home this morning and lo and behold there’s snow in the forecast. Ok, so it’s only in a tiny little pocket up near Glacier, only above 6500 feet, only 1 to 3 inches possible and it will be gone in a heartbeat. There’s something about that first hint of [...]
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Trying to hold to a reasonable standard of optimism, given that July is a couple of days away and that river flow trends had been looking a tiche better over the past few days, yesterday we planned to post this morning a few area river flows that had been improving. That post was to have [...]
A few days ago I mentioned how impressed we were to see the amount of snow still down in the southern part of Yellowstone over the past few days. South of Old Faithful bison were still choosing the road to mosey. Looking at today’s snowpack maps from NOHRSC there’s still a hell of a lot [...]
Two days of the season’s warmest temps followed by rain. Kiss your non-tailwater river goodbye for a spell. Even the tailwater fisheries in the neighborhood will probably be a challenge once this snowpack gets moving….
Rain and snowpack melt are starting to make things interesting……
The runoff season begins in earnest….
Gina Loss, a National Weather Service hydrologist in Great Falls, projects that this year’s runoff in Montana, at least Western Montana, will be “sensational”. A potent weather system has pounded southwestern and southern Montana this weekend with rain and snow. The pic to the right from this morning’s NWS forecast site out of Missoula confirms [...]
It snowed in Austin (above) and San Antonio (Jake’s place below). You’d think the world has come to an end. Schools closed, businesses closed, death and destruction on the roadways. We had to rush out for pics this morning before it all melted.
With snow falling in 25 states and most of the nation under cloud cover this morning – it’s a prime day for the winter blues. Even the damn cat has the blues today.
The Greater Yellowstone area has been a magnet for the world’s fly fisher folk for decades. We’d probably go as far to agree wholeheartedly with our friend John Juracek that the area serves as a mecca of sorts in the fly fishing world – at some point in their life most fly fishermen are moved [...]
Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse from William Castleman on Vimeo. From the steady hand of University of Florida Professor of Veterinary Pathology William Castleman.
Short winter days probably don’t impact the routine of most scurrying urbanites, at least from what I can observe ensconced temporarily here in Austin. (That isn’t meant to be quite as disdainful as it might sound.) On the other hand, for those whose work or play pivots around hours of available sunlight and the [...]
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