Damn, there has not been a whole lot of good news out there lately. HB 309 and the potential Rock Creek mine fiasco will make anyone depressed. So here is a little reminder of something positive: I need a new blender.
Jake McGlothlin
It has been an eventful weekend. Three highly unlikely things took place. First, San Antonio had its first snow since 1985. My God, you would think the world ended, the way people reacted. It was a good day to sit out on the balcony with a cup of coffee and watch the idiots sliding down […]
February may be known for Valentine’s Day, the holiday where every romantically inclined male is guilted into buying ridiculously overpriced flowers and chocolates. But there is another, perhaps more important holiday coming up this month: National Margarita Day. Yes, an entire day to celebrate the sweet, tangy tequila goodness that is a margarita. While much […]
No, not the United Federation of Planets. The Gulf Coast Council of the Federation of Fly Fishers will be holding their annual fly fishing expo on May 6th and 7th here in San Antonio. The FFF chose the Crowne Plaza Hotel on the Riverwalk for the event, and even got special pricing from the venue […]
I can already hear the cries of “bullshit!” at the title of this post. My own voice would have been one of the loudest a few days ago. Apparently, based on strong anecdotal evidence, Texas did at one time have a population of native, wild trout. The Rio Grande Cutthroat lived in the Davis Mountains, […]
Mark is up in Colorado for a few days, the lucky bastard. Even though its a working trip for just a few days and it is the middle of winter, I’m still pretty jealous. But such is life. Dr. Dumbass was back in the shop the other day, raving on and on about what a […]
My friends, it is good to be writing again. This past week has been a blur of angry customers, phone calls, long lines and short tempers. Anyone who has ever worked retail during the holidays knows exactly what I’m talking about. The retail death march. Back in the fly shop things haven’t been too bad, […]
Yellowstone National Park opened yesterday for snowcoach and snowmobile traffic. Lets hope its another winter like the one pictured above, taken in West Yellowstone. Damnation, some snow and cold sounds pretty good right now. Down here its approaching 80 degrees again. Damn. This is the second year of the controversial winter plan for Yellowstone, which […]
Just saw this on the Bozeman Daily Chronicle website this morning. It would seem that due to the incredible population growth of the greater Bozeman area, water rights and regulations are going to be changing again. Check out the full story here. Having spent most of my life there, I can fully understand and appreciate […]
It always shocks me to encounter someone like this. Someone who, in the entirety of their life, has never been fishing. shudder How sad it is. It was a late night at my second job, and I had been given the option to pick up a few more hours to help clean. Our tasks were […]
It has been a busy week for the fans of fishing stocked trout out of the Guadalupe River here in Texas. Texas Wildlife and Parks began their stocking program on the 3rd, and will continue every week as the season progresses. The river banks have simply been packed to the gills, as it were, mainly […]
One of the blogs everyone here at Chi Wulff reads every day has nothing to do with fly fishing. It is Seth’s Blog, written by business writer Seth Godin. Every day he has something good to say. Even if you don’t own your own business or even work in that realm at all, it is […]
Last night at the fly shop, I had the (dis)pleasure of meeting one of the self proclaimed experts on trout fishing in the world. In order to maintain his true identity I’ll just call him Dr. Dumbass. Dr. Dumbass had several amazing revelations to share with me. First off: there are no trout over 18 […]
Yesterday, I finally went down to the bank to update the address on my bank account. For the past six months its still said Bozeman, Montana. I thought its probably time to get that changed. The banker was very friendly, and went on and on about what a great city San Antonio was, and how […]
Due to recent experiences at the workplace in which I have been lectured and cajoled about how much better the trout fishing is here in Texas than anywhere else, I feel compelled to pull the soapbox out of the closet and make a stand. Since my hands are pretty much tied at the fly shop […]
