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 […]
Quinn Grover
Folks in Montana are gathering to develop a management plan for the famed Madison. While something like this seems overdue considering the tales I have heard of the rubber hatch on the lower river (see the link above for more info), one can’t help but worry about what Malcolm Gladwell described as “creeping determinism,” or […]
I spent a few hours today throwing massive streamers in hopes of moving some fish. Some part of me was hoping to catch a truly large brown trout. This is the season for it. The tail end of fall. Many brown trout are either preparing to spawn or have just finished. I was hoping the […]
A buddy and I just spent three days fighting the weather in search of big trout on a local lake. Some success and some failure later, this image was one of the results. He took it with the camera on his smartphone. I did a little post processing and quite like the way it turned […]
Took this on a recent trip. I’m not sure where the blue came from other than maybe the sky reflecting of the surface water. Anyway, I kind of like the effect.
Recently, there was a great Joe Posnanski post (its curiously long) about the last night of the MLB (baseball) regular season. For those unfamiliar, let me summarize (don’t worry, it will be quick, I understand the being unfamiliar with the end of the MLB regular season is a choice you’ve made). The last night of […]
A couple of weeks late on this one, but I wanted to give Fly Fisherman’s Ross Purnell some kudos for bringing attention to the stream access fight. Check out his article here in which he calls Utah a “battleground state.” Money quote: The decision was a time for rejoicing for Utah anglers, but it was short-lived. In […]
I grew up fishing the Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam. This was the river we went to remind ourselves that we didn’t know much about fly fishing. The river we went to when we wanted to catch a trout larger than sixteen inches. The river we went to see such fish, suspended along the […]
The Trout Underground has a great interview up right now with the world famous John Gierach. The whole thing is fascinating and you should read it all (go now, do it, I will wait). I was particularly interested in this exchange: Q: You refer to what I’ll call “fly fishing’s class wars” a bit more […]
I’ve been messing around a bit on Google+ over the last few weeks and I’ve been a twitter user for several months now. All this media-based socializing has made me think about an age-old fly fishing conundrum that is only enhanced by tools like blogs and facebooks and twitter feeds: just how much information is […]
I don’t have much to say this week. If you are wondering whether such silence might be the result of good fishing, I’ll offer a simple no comment. I’ll also offer up the following images, taken on a few recent trips that ran me near (and occasionally parked next to and fishing) the local waters. […]
One of my favorite fishing memories was a drive-all-night trip to Yellowstone with some college buddies that landed us on the Yellowstone River in the park, fishing caddis dries to rising cutthroat. The fish and the water were beautiful and I remember thinking to myself that I must to come back this place again and […]
I don’t have a lot of worm patterns in my fly boxes. I fish a few tailwaters but for some reason I’ve never got on the worm train. I don’t have a massive ethical aversion to fishing worms, although they are not my favorite. I figure that if worms are in the drift, then you […]
