Good Chi Newsletter

Good Chi – A Weekly Journal of

Fly Fishing in Yellowstone, Southern Montana, and Around

The entire team here at Chi Wulff is thrilled to offer you a FREE subscription to our more or less weekly newsletter Good Chi.  In response to the questions from our various spouses, friends, co-workers, fishing buds, etc. of ‘just what the heck are you guys doing?’ please consider the following.

Why another fly fishing newsletter?

We asked ourselves that question too, in fact, more than once.  Here’s the honest answer – our readers asked for it.  During the years that we ran the Best Fly Fishing Yellowstone website (later half of 2007, 2008, and early 2009), folks asked us over and over for a ‘cheat sheet’ of all our river updates in a one page format; we politely listened, then ignored, then went fishing.  We’d rather fish than write.

The more we thought about the concept, a one-stop shopping place for updated information for some of the local waters, we thought it a great idea, and in fact, this concept at least in part led to the genesis of Chi Wulff and Good Chi.

What the heck will be covered in the newsletter?

For each river we’re updating every week in our blog reports, we’ll provide a short and sweet newsletter summary of what’s happening in one sentence or less.  Waters covered will include:

Montana and Idaho Rivers

• Beaverhead
• Big Hole
• Bighorn
• Bitterroot
• Blackfoot
• Clark Fork
• Gallatin
• Henry’s Fork
• Madison
• Missouri
• Rock Creek
• Yellowstone

Yellowstone NP Rivers (late May to early November)

• Cascade Corner (Bechler and Fall)
• Firehole
• Gardner
• Gibbon
• Lamar
• Slough Creek
• Soda Butte Creek
• Yellowstone
• Smaller waters

Wait, there’s more - Good Chi will also include comments on area still waters, events in the neighborhood, and maybe a comment or two about shops, eateries, and other things you’ll want to know about when you’re up this way.

But wait, there’s even more - Good Chi won’t just cover things happening here in the area – we’ll highlight interesting, unusual, noteworthy, or just freakin’ weird stuff from around the fly fishing world.

What’s it going to cost me?

Not one red cent.  Good Chi is now and will always be FREE.  Hey, we have to eat, pay other bills, and support our fishing habit too, and yes, we know the economy still sucks.

How often will Good Chi be published?

Weekly during what we call ‘the season’ here in the neighborhood.  That means March until mid-November for most of the neighborhood, though most of us fish year round.  We’ll possibly publish at least monthly from late November through February.  Yellowstone updates will be included during the YNP season – late May through the first weekend in November.  We’re shooting for Thursday delivery by email – doing all we can to save those beautiful trees.  The newsletter will be in HTML format for your viewing pleasure.

How do I sign up and is my data secure?

Sign up is a snap – all we require is a functional email and your first name; use the form in the first sidebar to the right on any page.

The Chi Wulff team promises upon pain of death and, much more importantly, destruction of all our personal fly fishing gear, that we will NEVER EVER sell, lend, disclose, barter, distribute, publish, ransom or otherwise mistreat, misuse, or malfease ( I know that’s not a word but I needed another ‘m’) your contact information.

Will Good Chi be worth my time?

If you’re like us and don’t know everything there is to know about fly fishing, then we absolutely guarantee that there will be something in each and every issue of Good Chi that will be useful.  If you do know everything there is to possibly know about fly fishing – don’t subscribe.  (We’ve run into you on the river before, and we know who you are….)

The Chi Wulff team does NOT promise that all the content in Good Chi will be absolutely ‘fresh’ – there will perhaps be a link or two to things other great minds (or we) have recently written, recorded in video or still photos, cooked, caught, or eaten.

The Chi Wulff team does NEITHER promise NOR guarantee that you’ll be amazed, impressed, inspired, uplifted, motivated, educated, enlivened, encouraged, animated, moved, energized, dumbfounded, stunned, overwhelmed, or otherwise excited by Good Chi – but we’re damn sure going to try.