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Time for the Snow Dance…..

by Mark on February 9, 2010

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The last several days my fishing colleagues and I have chatted a time or two about the dramatic reports of snow-induced travails of those living along the eastern seaboard.
The media has portrayed a couple of feet of snow as an almost apocalyptic event, paralyzing the cities and and painting a broad stripe of hardship across [...]

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Thinking Snow and Itchin’ to Get Out….

by Mark on January 5, 2010

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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.
The penetrating [...]

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NOAA has recently posted information about what a cold October it was – here’s the link.
Before the onslaught of emails chiding our mere mention of global climatology – save the pixels and bandwidth – we’ve heard the pitch of how the climate is still heating up despite it seemingly getting cooler.  I’ll see your hyperventilating [...]

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It Don’t Feel Like It, But Fall is Here…..

by Mark on September 22, 2009

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A hearty welcome to the Fall season, though you probably wouldn’t know today is the autumnal equinox given the neighborhood weather.
Here’s to some cooler, cloudy, drizzly Blue Wing Olive fall days.
Wahoo.
Image credit:  redOrbit

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The Clouds are Your Friends (and Mine)

by Mark on June 4, 2009

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As it seemingly always does in here in southern Montana, the transition from late spring into early summer is passing in fits and starts again this year.   
Not that many weeks ago there were snow flurries in the air.  Since then we’ve seen days in the 90’s followed by days in the 40’s; tank tops and [...]

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This week’s weather forecast for the neighborhood looks like it was crafted by a dry fly fisherman or two.
Here’s what the weather gurus say we have coming up for the greater Bozeman area over the next few days….

Several of the waters in the Park are already looking better this week (Firehole and Madison particularly) and [...]

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I just came back into my office after being out for a couple of hours; as it’s pushing 70 here in Bozeman this afternoon (hello Mr. Runoff), my windows of course were left open. 
Just as I was mumbling about what a pig my suite mate was, I turned the corner into my office and was [...]

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Five Reasons to Enjoy Fishing in the Snow

by Jake on April 29, 2009

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For the past week, it has been snowing here in Bozeman.  Many people, myself included, are getting pretty fed up with the snow by now.  Spring snow can reduce some fly fishermen to pathetic depths.  Normally during these spring storms, enormous amounts of alcohol are consumed as the fisherman nervously ties flies and checks out [...]

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Mother nature’s going to throw a curveball over the next few days, just after most of us in the neighborhood were getting used to this balmy weather.  Gallatin Field near Bozeman hit 80 on Tuesday and yesterday– that’s ‘blow out my favorite river warm’. 
The curveball pitch is a cool and moist weather system moving into [...]

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