From Montana FWP’s 2016 Annual Fishing Newsletter, a graphical representation of the zip codes of origin of boats that were inspected in 2015 at Montana’s invasive species inspection stations. To those planning trips this year, it’s recently been announced the fishing sucks and you should probably go to Colorado. Or perhaps South Dakota.
Boats
Here’s a wooden boat salute to all of the hardworking, long-in-the-tooth wooden shrimpers working the bays and Gulf waters along the Texas coast. Not the typical woody that we post, but damn fine wooden craft all the same. I could go for a couple pounds of 12-15’s right off the boat about now…
A nifty build out of Lyons, CO; on the Colorado River last October, built in 1990. She looks better than a lot of the 26 year olds I saw on the street in Bozeman a couple of months ago… Via the timeless boaters at Wooden Boat People.
O.A.R.S. presents Martin’s Boat – a 24-minute film by Pete McBride honoring the late Martin Litton. Preeminent conservationist David Brower called him his conscience: in the 1950’s when the Bureau of Reclamation proposed two dams in the Grand Canyon—one at Marble Canyon and the other at Bridge Canyon—the late Martin Litton made sure the Sierra […]
Sweet build headed out in the Flathead, via the good folks at Wooden Boat People.
Via the big wave riding boaters at Wooden Boat People.
Via Wooden Boat People.
A Thousand Hands Ago from S Ensby on Vimeo. A short film about of recalling the knowledge of long dead craftsmen. Over the course of three days, Danish kayak builder Anders Thygesen builds an Aleutian iqyax by the shore of his local lake. He reflects on the process of learning these skills from masters whom […]
Nifty big water build in white. Via Wooden Boat People once again.
Sweet build out of Helena by Missouri River guide David P; via Wooden Boat People.
A nifty 15.5 Rapid Roberts build out of Beaver, OR; via Wooden Boat People.
Nice build out of Bend, parked in the snow and dreaming about springtime and summer. Via the good folks at Wooden Boat People once again.
A nifty little (14 footer) cedar strip drifter out of Olympia, WA; via Wooden Boat People once again.
Nice build out of Anchorage with a whisper of morning frost. Time to coffee up and get after it.
