Chi Wulff is back from the dead (again).
Jake spilled the beans yesterday in our first real post up since early March.
I too am amazed to find myself waking up today in Austin, Texas to a muggy 71 degree day at 6 AM – it’s allegedly -1 in Bozeman, snowing like hell and due to get colder.
Not that anyone really gives a damn, but there are some pretty compelling reasons (at least in our minds) we’re back blogging with Chi Wulff. I wrote about one of them yesterday when I updated our ‘Team’ page; here’s a short excerpt:
We’re in and out of Montana and the Intermountain West with some regularity and are spending a fair amount of time ranging from Texas along the Gulf Coast to Georgia and Florida.
While we’ve found ourselves missing Montana’s summer and fall of 2010 with gusto this year, we’ve reluctantly admitted that we got a bit spoiled living in Bozeman for years.
We’ve also re-discovered the immense world that is salt water fly fishing and have been having (much) more fun than we’d admit in Bozeman brown-lining for various species here in Central Texas and across the Gulf Coast.
Dammit – we had gotten a bit complacent living and fishing in our little corner of fly fishing mecca, and it’s been jarringly refreshing to have some new experiences and perspectives tossed our way.
In some respects the paragraph above may embody the most driving reason we’re cranking the blog back up again – there’s a big fly fishing world out there and we truly enjoy writing about it and sharing it with our friends.
We’re planning to repent from our Montana / YNP centric ways and broaden the blog’s perspective.
It is indeed a big fly fishing world out there.
Is it possible to fall into a fly fishing rut living in one of the most renowned ‘blue-line’ fly fishing neighborhoods in the world?
Yep. ‘Nuff said.
We’ve also been humbled and amazed at something we noticed a couple of weeks ago.
It appears that despite our not posting a damn thing here on Chi Wulff since March we’ve been recently averaging between 450 and 600 visits a day to the site (more during the summer months).
That’s of course nothing in terms of what the big boy blogs garner in terms of traffic every day, and a fraction of traffic we entertained during our busiest window. Still we were surprised as hell to see that many folks still stopping by our little digital corner of the world eight months after our last new content went up.
There have also been a fairly steady trickle of emails coming in since March asking about our Friday Feast posts – we’ll be bringing those back too starting this week (I’m thinking a turkey chili……).
The dust has settled somewhat with regard to the new business venture that ultimately led to our move back down to the southern tier of the country and the hellacious summer heat has finally faded.
The fishing on the Texas coast (and much of the Gulf Coast) is as good as it gets right now – the new neighborhood boasts of a growing number of fly fishing addicts (though we’re far, far outnumbered here….). Today’s pic was taken in Rockport just a few weeks ago as we got ready to head out.
Finally, it’s been much, much more fun that I ever imagined it could be fishing ‘the other water’ – I fear I’m another brown liner at heart about to come out of the closet.
More on that confession to come.
It’s good to be back.
