As Shane and I were driving back from a failed evening of carp fishing earlier this week, we decided that this year we wanted to have an epic day on the water. And I mean one of those days that lives in legend forever, the kind that we will still be talking about decades down […]
Jake McGlothlin
Carp. To many the word brings to mind the very lowest order of trash fish. The kind of creature that lives in the nastiest, smelliest, sickest places in the water world. But to some, the word conjures up one of the most challenging and hard fighting freshwater fish anywhere. Although I have long held the […]
In the past year, my quiver of rods has grown quite a bit. Thank God for deep discounts working in retail. But one rod really stands out. It’s not anything fancy, far from it. And you might think that the notable rods would be hundreds and hundreds of dollars. Not always so. This one cost […]
More from Shane Rickert. Hopefully one of these days the two of us will be able to get a picture of actually catching a fish.
Shane and I did a little last minute creeking last night on a new location I hadn’t been before. Timing the return trip, it is five minutes and 45 seconds from my parking lot. Pretty damn awesome. The water was way high and dirty, and we knew the fishing was going to be bad but […]
After a couple of weeks of forgetting all about my Thirsty Thursday responsibilities, I’m back on the case. It’s amazing what working retail will do to your sense of what day of the week it is… Being back in Bozeman means I’m back in the country of excellent beer. Superb beer. Beer named after flies, […]
As a fly fisherman and conservationist, keeping rivers, lakes, and ponds healthy and accessible is an important issue. There is one exception, however. Davis Pond here in Bozeman. I would be perfectly happy if it was drained and turned into, say, a parking lot. Davis Pond was the first place I fished when I got […]
Everyone had one growing up. Hell, more of us than we’d like to admit still have one hidden away somewhere, tucked out of sight. It’s something that helped shape who we are today. No, I’m not talking about a teddy beer, a security blanket, or your first crush. I’m talking about a cheap, Plano tackle […]
Woke up this morning to the heavens dumping snow on the neighborhood. Now don’t me wrong, I like snow, just not in the last few days of April. Oh well, give it two days and the weather will be completely different. That’s whats so great about spring in the mountain country.
Pissing off the fishing gods is just about the last thing you want to do. Retribution will be swift. Last night Shane and I finally got a chance to go fishing together. Not that it was really a fishing trip, as Shane has recently purchased a new to him DSLR. All excited about it, he […]
From Monday’s Daily Chronicle Police Report:
stasis noun formal or technical 1 a period or state of inactivity or equilibrium. When I left Austin, Texas last month for Bozeman, I had no idea that I would be getting first hand knowledge of the meanings of the word “stasis”. When I left, everything was planned out, would work great, and I would only have a couple […]
As Mark said yesterday, sometimes the view ain’t so bad. After a long week at work, all I wanted to do on my Friday night (which is Monday night on the calendar, but welcome to retail!) was go fishing. I opted for nearby Davis Pond, a body of water that I maintain has it out […]
Under the guise of doing some camera research ran into these guys on the Gallatin a few days ago…
