There are several very good reasons to kill and eat a fish. First and foremost would be food. When you are broke ass poor like me, food doesn’t come cheap. I’ve been living on ramen noodles for two weeks and some fresh meat sure sounds good. Another great reason is fishery management. Take the lake […]
Damn!
When will fall ever get here? That’s a question we hear a lot these days in the shop, and around town. It’s a question being asked a lot around the country right now too I believe. A lot of the Rocky Mountain West is still on fire, temperatures are still high, and there hasn’t been […]
Dammit, I’d rather be in Jake’s ‘office’ this morning. Just as I was sitting down to drink coffee and stare at my project list for today, Jake fired over the view from his morning office. He was apparently run off from his first access off Jackson Creek Road by a bear and headed up choice […]
I’ve spent the past two weeks covering the Millie Fire in Gallatin National Forest for various local news sources. Rather incredible coincidence had Chi Wulff Jake and I up the Storm Castle drainage within a mile or so of where the fire started on the 29th. We were driving back from West Yellowstone, saw the […]
05 Rogue River Dam Removals Scott Wright SRF 2012 from Thomas B. Dunklin on Vimeo. Scott Wright is the design engineer who coordinated efforts to remove 3 dams on the Rogue River and one on a major tributary: The Gold Hill Dam and the Elk Creek Dam (2008), the Savage Rapids Dam (2009) the Gold […]
It was bound to happen sooner or later. There is now a fire burning in the immediate area of Bozeman. To this point we had been pretty lucky, with the only fire close being the Bear Trap fire which ended about six weeks ago. The Millie Fire was last reported (about 12 hours ago) as […]
Flying kayak from Inge on Vimeo. Tighten those straps.
Most of us were probably introduced to fly fishing through the kind instruction of a father, grandfather, relative, or family friend. Under their watchful eye, we got our first rods, first instruction, learned to cast and picked up some useful and potent curses when lines got tangled and flies were lost. But then there are […]
Been getting ‘my day’s going better than yours’ texts off and on today from Jake as he and buddy Shane float the Yellowstone. None bothered me until the most recent – “just got the biggest brown of my life on a streamer…pushing 22 and fat enough to not be able to get a hand around […]
DamNation | Trailer from FELT SOUL MEDIA on Vimeo. Ok, this one you’ve probably already seen, though it’s worth a mention in case some missed it…..
After being blissfully lucky so far this year, fire season has hit southwest Montana hard this week. There are now four wildfires burning around the area, and high winds and record high temps aren’t doing much to help matters. Most of note to fishermen is a fire burning along the Lower Madison. Word on the […]
Women. They have caused more men to resort to violence, irrational behavior and fits of lunacy throughout history than any other force of nature. More wars have been fought, alcohol been drunk, and fishing trips taken over women than anything else. Since time immemorial women have been causing trouble and breaking hearts; driving men to […]
It’s that time of year again here in Southwest Montana. The weather is warming up, the snow up high is melting, and the rivers are all high and dirty. Yep, runoff is here. Sure, tailwaters like the Lower Madison are still running reasonably clear, and there are a lot of lakes and ponds to fish. […]
As Shane and I were driving back from a failed evening of carp fishing earlier this week, we decided that this year we wanted to have an epic day on the water. And I mean one of those days that lives in legend forever, the kind that we will still be talking about decades down […]
