I’m living in a place where traffic is defined by four or more boats on the same bend; girls’ nights out involve casting rods at the Craig Casting Club here at Headhunter and dodging hordes of guides at Joe’s Bar. Flip flops and wading boots are de rigueur, and currently four bottles of hard liquor […]
Jess McGlothlin
Another busy week has flown by in Craig. The week started in true Montana spring fashion, with a snowstorm over the weekend. Sunday’s planned Orvis Rendezvous was hosted in sub-freezing temperatures and heavy snow. Many of the out-of-staters who traveled in for the festivities came in from guided trips slightly early, looking red-faced and rather […]
It’s been an odd week on the home front, and while things are progressing per normal at the shop, I’ve found myself needing a bit of solo planning time. Too many projects in the works and not enough time. (As I write this, I’m sipping a protein drink dinner letting new nail polish dry. As […]
We are battening down the hatches once more for typical “spring in Montana” weather. Temperatures for the coming two days are slated to hover right around freezing, with respective eighty and sixty percent chances of snow for Sunday and Monday. Mercifully, the National Weather Service is calling for only an inch or two accumulation. It’s […]
I took full advantage of a day off yesterday and floated Pelican Point to Cascade with the Headhunters crew. Owners Mark, John and Julie, guide Beth Hood, Simms gang Whitey and Nick and myself headed out into a breezy spring day for some river time. After a morning of fishing, we tucked into the lee […]
Another week has flown by here on the Missouri. Despite a snowy early week ahead, spring fever has officially hit, it seems, and the shop is just getting busier and busier. I was able to take my first Missouri float on Thursday with shop manager Sara and her guide boyfriend Kurt. It was a glorious […]
(Late Friday PM, Craig, Montana.) We’re starting up a busy weekend here at the shop. Shuttle runs totaled seventeen for today, and we’re anticipating a busy holiday weekend. It doesn’t hurt that the fishing has been stellar. Nymphing, as the boys put it, is “as good as it gets.” The weather has been ideal – […]
I’m hijacking Thirsty Thursday this weekend as Jake is apparently deep in the bowels of retail hell in Bozeman and I’ve rather been experimenting in the drinks department over the past twenty-four hours. Historically, I’m not much of a coffee drinker. I’m throwing that out there right now. Espresso drinks, sure. I even did a […]
This week has seen a notable victory for the New Mexico sportsmen’s community, and – really – a notable victory for sportsmen across the country. Rio Grande del Norte – spanning sixty-six contiguous miles of what is arguably some of New Mexico’s best-loved wild trout fisheries as well as habitat to elk, bighorn sheep, antelope, […]
I’ve been back in Montana for a week, and am slowly settling into life along the Missouri River. I’m living in Cascade and working 20 miles upriver at Headhunters Fly Shop in Craig. So far, the consensus is this: the job is awesome, the place I’m living – not so much. The first week at […]
I was lucky enough to have an invite out to fish the Puget Sound yesterday morning with new friends Steven and Justin. Somehow it’s never a burden to wake up at 0500h to go fishing or, for that matter, to go shoot photos. When the two are related it’s even better. We headed out through […]
Life’s funny. No matter what happens, no matter how wild and weird circumstances are, somehow there’s always some little irony, some little “funny” thing that happens to twist what’s expected on its head. Most recently that twist came in the form of an email from the team up at HeadHunters fly shop up on Montana’s […]
Temperatures have finally edged above freezing here in Wyoming. I went snowshoeing in the Wind River Mountains this morning, and despite the majesty of the surroundings – drifts of snow edging along for hundreds of yards, moose tracks in the powder, the silence of being miles from the nearest road – I found myself thinking […]
This afternoon I was on assignment at the Jackson Fork Ranch near Bondurant, Wyoming, photographing their national-level Percheron breeding program. It was a good day; the smell of a barn and the presence of massive horses brings back memories of running a similar facility. After the barn, I was given a tour of the lodge, […]
Photographer / fly fisher / freelance journalist / shop rat looking at work option on the Missouri this summer (Craig) and am trying to pin down housing options. I’m neat as a pin, quiet, hard-working, non-smoker and wouldn’t move more gear in than can fit in a Subaru Outback. Mid-twenties female, independent with firearms and […]
