It’s hard to believe it’s March. I heard the first twitter of songbirds as I walked into work the other day; somehow it was dampened by the falling snow and sub-zero wind chill. Guess we’re all a little anxious for spring green. I just returned to the apartment after an afternoon casting session at the […]
Jess McGlothlin
We’ve had our first taste of pseudo-spring here in Vermont. I did yoga with opened windows in the apartment yesterday morning – I don’t care if it’s 38 degrees. It’s fresh air. My parking lot has transformed into a 14″ lake, and I’m debating the merits of using it for casting practice. While the reality […]
Early Sunday morning I got a text from one of the Orvis fly-fishing girls (there are a grand total of four of us here at the home office. We’ve formed the habit of gathering every week for a night of wine, cheese and shuffleboard, which most often ends with us crashed on the floor with […]
It snowed. Just a wee bit. I’m sitting at my folding desk looking out the window at a pile of snow nearly twice my height. And – guess what – it’s snowing. Winter Storm Pax (or Axe, Max… whatever it was. When did we decide to start bestowing names upon winter storms, anyway?) visited Vermont […]
About eleven months ago, I started writing the “Dispatches from Craig” series here on Chi Wulff. To my surprise, people seemed to like it, and I began to get regular feedback; chiding if I missed a week, offers of drinks if someone was passing through Craig. The series created a weird little community. If there […]
I’m still not really quite sure how I ended up writing and photographing for the fly fishing world. It started off with an investigative piece about the Madison River while I was living in Bozeman… a rumor floated around town and I saw it as a challenge. Something to chase down. My first time interviewing […]
I’m finally taking a bit of time to look back through the season’s photographs; doing somehow makes the season seem like even more of a blur. The photo series I’m flipping through tonight opens with a plethora of shots of Craig, seen under a blanket of snow and ice and shots of my homely little […]
Fall is coming to the Missouri River front. While daytime temperatures still flirt with the nineties, nighttimes dip near fifty, and we find ourselves showing up to work with fleece jackets to fight off the morning chill. While shuttling yesterday, I noticed the trees are starting to offer hints of fall. More anglers are pulling […]
My watch battery died within ten minutes of setting foot on the plane about to whisk me out of Great Falls, Montana. I should have realized it for what it was: a sign things were about to change. I had left behind an increasingly weird existence on the Missouri River front and hopped a plane […]
Another week has flown by in Missouri River country. We’re seeing an incremental drop in temperature changes – every little bit helps – and the entire team is looking forward to the arrival of fall. The undoubted highlight of the week has been the unexpected arrival of Marley the Border Collie. Marley showed up one […]
It’s been a busy week on the Missouri River front. I find myself suddenly swamped with editorial assignments, and reveling in the fact that, yes, I would rather write and manage photos than sleep. I spent one afternoon free of shop work (the benefit of starting the workday at 0600h is that you wrap up […]
The best assignment of the week was a morning spent north of Great Falls, photographing Montana’s largest honey producer. Some time on the road, behind the camera and a series of very early mornings helped fuel me through the week. I still have not gotten used to bumping along dirt roads and coming face-to-face with […]
I spent last weekend migrating between Craig, Bozeman and Big Sky as the official photographer for the Blue Water Task Force’s Fly Fishing Festival in Big Sky. Under the shadow of Lone Mountain, the event consisted of an eventing of F3T, a daylong festival of casting, impromptu water sliding, fly fishing-related vendors and kids digging […]
Friday: I’m writing this Dispatches post from a little laundromat in Bozeman. It’s the first time in two weeks I’ve been able to sit still for a moment and not work on the new Fire Girl website, which premiered today. Somehow along the way, I’ve gone three weeks without grocery shopping or washing clothing. Sometimes […]
The sprint continues. I suddenly find myself knee deep in editorial assignments (total bliss) and this week Missouri River life is mixing with a honey farm, bamboo sourcing, a conservation project in Nevada and several other projects. Call it sanity preservation. Busy is good. Things are slowing up a bit on the river, though with […]
