Damn!

Cutthroat Trout from Juan Pons on Vimeo.

Salmon Bugs from Western Fly Media on Vimeo. From video guru (and lucky bastard to catch this hatch just right) Erik Berkner of Western Fly Media – Thought I’d pass this on your way. We shot this in June and hit the salmon fly hatch just right. I have, for my whole life, never quite […]

The savvy floating fisher and river runner is well away that river hazards may change at any time due to swings in flows and / or shifting movements of river debris. Now and then you round a corner and find Boeing fuselages in the river. A Montana Rail Link train derailed near Fish Creek’s confluence […]

THAT DAM RAPID – ELWHA RIVER POST DAM REMOVAL from Olympic Raft & Kayak on Vimeo. Nice little twist and shimmy to skirt that big one at the bottom of the dam drop.

Fly Fishing Video – “YouthFish” from Joe Cummings on Vimeo. Simply stellar work from Montana guide Joe Cummings.

While fishing the Lower Madison just downstream of the Red Mountain Campground last week, we ran across an unusual sight.  A catfish.  It was dead, but still.  A catfish in the Madison. I have never seen any in that section, or even heard of them in there.  Maybe it’s a common thing, but it sure […]

Rock Creek Salmon fly from MAngler Media on Vimeo. The Friday afternoon, dammit! – wish I was there post. If you’ve ever caught the Salmon Fly hatch on a northern Rockies freestone you’ll understand why the dramatic musical score is so frackin’ appropriate. ‘Nuff said. A most well done 22 seconds from the good folks […]

On a day when life has produced some fairly heady, paradigm shifting news for the Left Coast part of our team, Shane and Jake had to show off again with this pic from a recent run to new (unspecified) water somewhere over in God’s country. Back to regularly scheduled programming tomorrow.

Won’t be fishing the Gallatin for a while but there are plenty of fun distractions.

Damn, it feels good to be home.  Waking up this morning, it took me a moment to really realize that I was actually in Bozeman and not somewhere else.  But one good, deep breath of that clean mountain air was all it took to remind me that this is no dream. While I would love […]

Spring is quickly approaching here in SW Montana. Granted we had snow earlier this week but it was 60 and sunny by 5 o’clock that same day! I decided it was long past due that I went through my wader bag and get it ready for the long days on the river we have in front […]

Yesterday here in the PNW we had one of the first days that really felt like Spring.  The day was warm and sunny, all the trees and bushes are starting to bloom, and you could smell things again.  You know how in the dead of winter, nothing really smells?  But then on those first nice […]

Somewhere Out West from scumliner media on Vimeo. It’s been a long, long winter back home.

John Gierach once wrote “The solution to any problem — work, love, money, whatever — is to go fishing, and the worse the problem, the longer the trip should be.”.  Hardly have truer words ever been put to paper.  Over the past couple of weeks, I have had a series of misfortunes that include a […]