Being a bachelor and living alone have many advantages. I can eat what I want when I want, do what I want when I want to, and watch whatever the hell I want to without asking anyone or debating about movie options. I can leave my fishing gear spread all over the house and no […]
Jake McGlothlin
You know it’s a good day when you can catch two of your favorite fish species in the same outing. It’s a really good day when you’re fishing with your good friend and you both catch fish at the same time. Shane and I pulled these fish out of Hyalite Creek. It may be super […]
Got a phone call last night from Shane asking what I was doing after work, saying “I better not be hanging out with my girlfriend”. I asked him why and learned his plan: night fishing. Neither of us had ever night fished before, but he had tied a bunch of big streamers and I bought […]
Today for Thirsty Thursday there won’t be any drinks except for the cheap beer one usually takes on a float trip. For Shane and myself a couple days ago, the choice was PBR (again). What a great fishing beer. This week, we are celebrating the most influential and important fluid in most of our lives: […]
Summer is sandal season. Doesn’t matter where you are, it just is. And if you are a fisherman, odds are pretty good you spend a lot of time in your sandals out on the water. After a certain amount of time (or an 8 and a half hour float trip), your feet are going to […]
It is the end of an era. Mark and I have made the painful decision to sell our beloved Jeep. She has been with us through the good times and the bad times, but all she’s been doing lately is sitting in a storage unit for the past almost three years. We agreed it would […]
I hope everyone enjoyed their 4th, and survived the fireworks with little or no damage to person and property. Many of you are nursing hangovers this morning, I’m sure. Good luck. Last night on the way to a fireworks show at my girlfriend’s friend’s house, we stopped in the grocery store for a six pack […]
Happy Independence Day! Today we celebrate the birth of our nation. For many of you, I hope the celebration includes vast amounts of beer, fireworks, and time on the water. Mark and I used to always try to fish the Firehole in the park on the 4th, but sadly this year I got stuck having […]
This is that magical time of year when towns all throughout the country fill up with people that are just passing through and seem to just get in the way. They’re the people who you can pick out of a crowd at 200 yards, due to their brand new bright blue cowboy hats, hiking boots […]
Good coffee is worth a million bucks. Especially on those mornings when you are a little slow getting going. And when you run out of coffee, like I did a few weeks ago, it’s not good. Not good at all. After the aforementioned post, Sinjin Eberle of Copper Door Coffee Roasters (also Colorado TU’s president) […]
Despite the raging wildfires, the dry weather, and all the other bad stuff happening in the state of Colorado, the news coming from the area isn’t all bad. A recent email exchange from Sinjin Eberle, President of the Colorado TU, brought good tidings of a recent victory for the group. The Bureau of Land Management […]
Brown trout. Two-weight rod. Size 16 Parachute Adams. ‘Nuff said.
After being blissfully lucky so far this year, fire season has hit southwest Montana hard this week. There are now four wildfires burning around the area, and high winds and record high temps aren’t doing much to help matters. Most of note to fishermen is a fire burning along the Lower Madison. Word on the […]
It doesn’t matter if we’re talking fishing, work, relationships, whatever; everyone has that lofty goal that sits on your “someday” horizon for years. Maybe it’s to get into the 20/20 club with a big fish, or write that book, get that promotion, etc. The moment you achieve one of those goals, you feel like you’re […]
There really is no place like it that I know of. Where else can you sit by the shore and watch native cutthroat trout two feet long rising less than two rod lengths from where you’re standing? It is a place that when hit right, never disappoints. If you know where I’m talking about, please […]
