It’s finally come time to tip our hats and ride off into the Montana sunset.
(That pic is a genuine Montana sunset taken last summer from ‘West Bozeman’….)
This will be the final post here on Chi Wulff.
We’d like to thank all of those who have followed the blog over the years – this blog humbly began as Best Fly Fishing Yellowstone back in July of 2007 and morphed into Chi Wulff last April.
The nuts and bolts have been run by Jake and I here in Bozeman with great input from Missouri River Steve in Craig, Al over in the Bitterroot Valley and Jess in Missoula / Bozeman. Jess is now busy running Fire Girl Photography and working to pay bills, Steve has moved to Florida and guiding full time in the salt and Al has started a book he’s always threatened to write.
We pushed up to nearly 30,000 visits per month during the late summer and fall last year, and have had the chance to interact with a lot of super folks from all over the country and the world over the past several years.
We’re tremendously appreciative of your interest and support and we hope we’ve been able to share a bit of Montana and the Greater Yellowstone neighborhood with you in a positive way.
Several good friends have asked why close down the site?
The answers are really pretty simple.
First, after lots of soul searching, head-scratching and consulting our respective families, Jake and I are significantly expanding a business that I’ve been peripherally involved with over the past several years.
We’ve found an entrepreneurial niche that has been performing (and will continue to perform) better and better as the economy and housing market continue to struggle.
(I don’t know if you’ve noticed, and I guess it would be great for you if you hadn’t noticed, but there’s a bit of a recession depression recession going on right now. I’m no economist, but it seems to be a pretty safe bet that the current economic angst isn’t going away real soon….)
The project will require some travel throughout the Northwest, the Intermountain West and the Gulf Coast states – we’ll still be fishing but won’t be spending as much time around the neighborhood.
That said, when home – we’d rather fish than write about it, and dropping a few tasks from the ‘to do’ list will in fact create a little more time for fishing than during the past year, at least for me anyway.
Secondly a small media company we started a few years ago (Dry Fly Media) has matured a bit and we’re now working on some nifty film projects after a dalliance with digital publishing. We had recently been busy cranking up a new digital magazine concept, but the promise of the other business venture far, far, far exceeds the digital publishing potentials. Given the fact there are only so many hours in the day – we’ve both elected to gracefully bow out of the digital publishing world.
(One man’s opinion – the digital publishing tsunami isn’t far off….).
Jake and I are going to remain involved with Dry Fly Media and will be blogging on their new / updated site every week or 10 days.
We’ll probably leave the Chi Wulff site up for the month of March and then she’s gone. We’ll be moving the blog roll and adding some other media links to the Dry Fly Media site.
Best to all of our fisher friends out there –
Mark and Jake
Bozeman
