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As a fly fisherman and conservationist, keeping rivers, lakes, and ponds healthy and accessible is an important issue.  There is one exception, however.  Davis Pond here in Bozeman.  I would be perfectly happy if it was drained and turned into, say, a parking lot. Davis Pond was the first place I fished when I got […]

Not Again…

by Jake McGlothlin on April 27, 2012

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Woke up this morning to the heavens dumping snow on the neighborhood.  Now don’t me wrong, I like snow, just not in the last few days of April.  Oh well, give it two days and the weather will be completely different.  That’s whats so great about spring in the mountain country.

Pissing off the fishing gods is just about the last thing you want to do. Retribution will be swift. Last night Shane and I finally got a chance to go fishing together.  Not that it was really a fishing trip, as Shane has recently purchased a new to him DSLR.  All excited about it, he […]

Stasis

by Jake McGlothlin on April 24, 2012

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stasis  noun formal or technical 1 a period or state of inactivity or equilibrium. When I left Austin, Texas last month for Bozeman, I had no idea that I would be getting first hand knowledge of the meanings of the word “stasis”.  When I left, everything was planned out, would work great, and I would only have a couple […]

One of These Days

by Jake McGlothlin on February 5, 2012

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Montana has been on my mind lately.  Honestly, it has never really left my mind.  Talking to friends back home just makes it worse.  What I wouldn’t give for just a couple breaths of crisp, clean mountain air and being able to look up and see the mountains. I’ll be back there sooner or later.  […]

Good Day, Bad Day

by Quinn Grover on November 11, 2011

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I spent a few hours today throwing massive streamers in hopes of moving some fish. Some part of me was hoping to catch a truly large brown trout. This is the season for it. The tail end of fall. Many brown trout are either preparing to spawn or have just finished. I was hoping the […]

I Believe I can Fly ( flight of the frenchies). Trailer from sebastien montaz-rosset on Vimeo.

Read some sobering news last week on Joshua Bergen’s blog TroutBugs in a post he titled Incident at Milesnick’s Could Reignite Debate. We’ve spent a fair amount of time chewing this one over and debated whether or not to post anything about it last week, though the more we think about it, the more pissed […]

Looks like MG held a clinic featuring Mr. and Mrs. Brown recently, though Nate Taylor’s short clip suggests the day didn’t start off with a bang. Been there, shat that.

Unimaginable

by Quinn Grover on September 15, 2011

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I grew up fishing the Green River below Flaming Gorge Dam. This was the river we went to remind ourselves that we didn’t know much about fly fishing. The river we went to when we wanted to catch a trout larger than sixteen inches. The river we went to see such fish, suspended along the […]

Last night a google search for ‘Yellowstone River Oil Spill’ pulled roughly 39,700 results, though only a handful were up to date and not reposts / reprints / redirects of the more or less local reliable sources we’ve all be reading over the past month. Here’s a few links from the local media covering the […]

Several reports about and reactions to current Yellowstone River oil spill happenings from the neighborhood….. From the Billings Gazette – Landowners Along River Weary, Hopeful of Cleanup Efforts. Note the reactions from the interviewed impacted landowners. Again from the BG – Spilled Oil Estimate Could Change…. The estimated amount of oil dumped into the Yellowstone […]

Ocean Sky from Alex Cherney on Vimeo.

The most current reporting dealing with the Yellowstone River Oil Spill we can dig up this morning includes this report from the Billings Gazette – Oil Cleanup Continues on the Yellowstone River and a press release today from the EPA (written yesterday and released today). Clearly as flows drop, pending spikes potentially to be induced […]