Some days you know the conditions aren’t going to be optimal, but you have to get out anyway. Last Thursday I was sitting at the island in our kitchen tying flies and just got the urge to go fishing. It was 25 degrees in Bozeman, and had been damn cold the previous night. All the […]
Jake McGlothlin
Take a look at that sign. What’s the biggest, boldest word on it? Wilderness. Fly fishing is something special in that it can take you to some truly wild places. Sure, Bear Trap isn’t a true “wilderness” in the sense that most of us think of it, but you get my point. As the world […]
Last night we held the first open tying night of the winter at the shop. It ended up being three guys that work there huddled around a table drinking beer in the back of a fly shop. It was pretty damn nice, actually. We don’t get much chance to just hang out as a group, […]
A New Year is full of possibilities. Everyone is full of new resolutions, ideas, hopes and dreams for the coming year. So often though, most of those are long dead and forgotten in a pretty short time. It takes discipline to stick with it. One of the things I’ve been thinking about is what fishing […]
Holy shit, it’s New Year’s Eve again. 2014 was a hell of an interesting year. And a pretty damned good one, if you ask me. It saw good times and bad, heartbreak and love, the start of a good new job, and a return home to where I belong. It brought great new friends, many […]
Ice. We’ve reached that point in the season where ice rules every fishing trip. Ice on the road. Ice in the guides. Ice on the river bank. Ice floating downstream in great big chunks. There is hardly any sound more eery than stepping out onto a riverside ice shelf and hearing it creak and groan […]
One of the things I personally have enjoyed almost more than anything else in fishing over the past few years has been learning to Spey cast. The different motions, the cool gear, and being a complete beginner once again were all pretty significant draws. And it might be elitist of me, but it’s pretty neat […]
Every now and then I really wonder why I do this at all. I do enjoy the writing and getting to interact with everyone that we do. But it’s a lot of work and stress sometimes. There’s a lot of days when I just sit here and stare at the blank page and wonder what […]
For the past almost three months I’ve been spending a lot of time in Livingston. Not only is it a really cool town, but there is a lovely young lady there who for whatever reason really likes me. Yesterday the sun was shining and the river was calling my name, so I headed over the […]
A couple of days ago we got a pretty big storm in Bozeman. It dumped almost a foot of snow in places in town and iced up the roads pretty badly. Even getting back and forth from work was a challenge, especially with all the people who just moved to Bozeman and have never seen […]
This product made quite the splash at IFTD this year. And for good reason. A reel case that doubles as a beer holster? Too good to be true… The good folks over at Bozeman Reel Company know what they’re doing. As Shane so expertly models here at Three Dollar Bridge this holster not only protects […]
Well the first winter storm of the year has hit. Town is blanketed in white this morning, and temps are just barely hovering above zero. Winter has arrived. The general conception amongst the uninitiated is that fishing grinds to a halt during the winter months. While this sometimes can be the case, winter is just […]
