October is perhaps the biggest month of the year for beer for one simple reason: Oktoberfest. This German festival celebrates good food and good beer, and has spread from the city of Munich to partiers all over the world. Something like 16 million people annually travel to Germany for this festival, but you can still […]
Jake McGlothlin
Aside from being the best fishing of the year, Fall is also the season when most fly tiers seriously look at their depleted fly boxes and start to think about what to tie to replenish them. It is also the time of year when you realize that the streamer bite is really on, and you […]
I ran up to Hyalite Reservoir last Friday to get out of town for a little bit and cast a line. I also hadn’t really seen snow in the mountains in too damn long. It was nice fishing from the shore and being cold for a change. It was also nice being up there, at […]
Well I’ll be damned. Most of the time when the weatherman says it’s going to snow, it never does. Today was one of the rare exceptions. Here in Bozeman we went from abnormally warm and dry to snow. What I wouldn’t give to be swinging soft hackles on the Firehole right now… I apologize for […]
There is a certain pride to doing things yourself. Tying your own flies, building your own rods, hell even changing your own oil in your car. Most people these days don’t seem to want to do anything for themselves. If someone else can do it for just a little cash, that’s better, right? Wrong. There […]
Water is a liquid most sacred to fishermen, for obvious reasons. Without water, what the hell would we do with our time? Our entire sport would never have existed. And when you have been out on the water or in the woods all day, nothing quite quenches your thirst like a cold drink of water. […]
When you have plans for your weekend, all you can think about on your Friday are those plans. The clock slows down, and each hour lasts longer than the one before. Finally, that blissful moment arrives and you can clock out. Ahhhhhhh. A lot of folks like to sleep in on their weekends, take it […]
As fishermen, hunters, and outdoorsmen in general, we collect a lot of stuff. Most of the time without ever realizing it too. Fishing in particular is a very fertile ground for stockpiling random shit. Last night after work I helped Shane move from the Sasquatch Cave (inside joke and long story with that one) to […]
One of the things that makes people all warm and fuzzy inside about fall is apples. Hot apple pie coming out of the oven, the apple trees out back loaded with fresh fruit, eating an apple on a late season float trip, whatever your fall apple memory is, run with it. But there is one […]
Getting busy with life, work and “stuff” really does put a damper on a lot of stuff. The other night over a burger fishing buddy Shane and I were talking about that very thing. Hell, we haven’t been out fishing together in probably two months. So, we decided to take a evening we both had […]
There are several very good reasons to kill and eat a fish. First and foremost would be food. When you are broke ass poor like me, food doesn’t come cheap. I’ve been living on ramen noodles for two weeks and some fresh meat sure sounds good. Another great reason is fishery management. Take the lake […]
Not only does the fall bring with it a change in season, change in weather, and change in fishing tactics, it also brings a change in the crowd around town. The college kids show back up, most of the tourist families are gone, and things start to settle back into some semblance of routine. Fall […]
Perhaps my personal favorite hatch of the year is the Baetis. Specifically, the Baetis in the fall in Yellowstone Park. Dad and I have spent many, many chilly, drizzly days swinging soft hackles or throwing tiny dries on the Firehole while the BWOs are out. This year will be no exception. Sure, the fish on […]
When will fall ever get here? That’s a question we hear a lot these days in the shop, and around town. It’s a question being asked a lot around the country right now too I believe. A lot of the Rocky Mountain West is still on fire, temperatures are still high, and there hasn’t been […]
I don’t know what it is about oatmeal. For some reason I find myself around it a lot these days. Oatmeal stout as the beer of choice last week. Oatmeal for breakfast. Hell, even oatmeal cream pies for dessert last night. As I was looking for something to write about today, I saw this recipe […]
