I recently was able to watch a presentation by an “Outdoor Team” sponsored by a national magazine and several national gear manufacturers. Let me rephrase there – the presentation was at my place of work so I had to watch it. The talk covered backpacking and was engineered to help encourage and enable people to […]
Critters
18 foot great white circling the boat (21 footer) roughly 25 miles off the (NC) coast of Wrightsville Beach. Impressive views of the shark despite being recorded on an iPhone; NSFW language less impressive.
Several days ago we posted a series of images which appeared to show a fly fisher having a close encounter with a herd of elk, including a fair sized bull, on the Big Thompson near Rocky Mountain National Park. The pics generated a smatter of commentary and quite a bit of email. The consensus opinion […]
This set of impressive images was forwarded to me in the past few days by my non-fly-fishy (actually not fishy at all), octogenarian mother, who was passed the images by a here-to-fore unidentified source. The accompanying brief narrative suggested that this intrepid fly fisher was slipping and sliding his way along the Big Thompson near […]
Murmuration from Sophie Windsor Clive on Vimeo. Being in the right place at the right time (the River Shannon in Ireland) can make up for a little rough camerawork. The shot of the young girl’s face at the end is a great reflection of why we all need to spend a little more time in […]
The complaints from those who whine about the ‘extremification’ of fly fishing duly noted, I’ll take a day on the pond / river / stream / flat any day in lieu of the collision this poor bastard had on the South African veldt with a Red Hartebeest. Who would have guessed there’d be risks inherent […]
Know they self, know thy enemy. A thousand battles, a thousand victories. – Sun Tzu The Invasion: A Case Study on the Hudson River from AMNH on Vimeo.
Baby Permit from william benson on Vimeo.
1000 lbs Blue Fin from Eric Kulin on Vimeo.
For those so inclined, the full investigative report of the fatal bear encounter 6 July has been released. The full report with images and scans of at least some of the documents generated by the investigators is available here. Almost all of the friends and neighbors back home who do anything (not just wandering streams […]
Via the Chive
The report of yesterday’s fatal grizzly encounter in Yellowstone National Park is all over the Montana press today. The incident occurred on the Wapiti Lake trail (east of the Grand Loop Road south of Canyon Village). A husband and wife hiking were roughly a mile and half down the trail when they first saw the […]
Clouds Of Tricos from coloradoflyfisher on Vimeo. Trico swarms on an unnamed Colorado river – there’s hope for a season yet.
HATCH – Fly Fishing DVD Trailer from Gin Clear Media on Vimeo.
From the Missoulian today – Signs Point to Pesky Mosquito Season in Western Montana – Water – too much of it in too many places we wish it wasn’t – is the problem right now. Guess what comes next? Mosquitoes. Like the water, there could be more than we’re accustomed to, for longer than we’re […]
