I’m still not really quite sure how I ended up writing and photographing for the fly fishing world. It started off with an investigative piece about the Madison River while I was living in Bozeman… a rumor floated around town and I saw it as a challenge. Something to chase down. My first time interviewing […]
Dispatches from Craig
I’m finally taking a bit of time to look back through the season’s photographs; doing somehow makes the season seem like even more of a blur. The photo series I’m flipping through tonight opens with a plethora of shots of Craig, seen under a blanket of snow and ice and shots of my homely little […]
Fall is coming to the Missouri River front. While daytime temperatures still flirt with the nineties, nighttimes dip near fifty, and we find ourselves showing up to work with fleece jackets to fight off the morning chill. While shuttling yesterday, I noticed the trees are starting to offer hints of fall. More anglers are pulling […]
My watch battery died within ten minutes of setting foot on the plane about to whisk me out of Great Falls, Montana. I should have realized it for what it was: a sign things were about to change. I had left behind an increasingly weird existence on the Missouri River front and hopped a plane […]
Another week has flown by in Missouri River country. We’re seeing an incremental drop in temperature changes – every little bit helps – and the entire team is looking forward to the arrival of fall. The undoubted highlight of the week has been the unexpected arrival of Marley the Border Collie. Marley showed up one […]
It’s been a busy week on the Missouri River front. I find myself suddenly swamped with editorial assignments, and reveling in the fact that, yes, I would rather write and manage photos than sleep. I spent one afternoon free of shop work (the benefit of starting the workday at 0600h is that you wrap up […]
The best assignment of the week was a morning spent north of Great Falls, photographing Montana’s largest honey producer. Some time on the road, behind the camera and a series of very early mornings helped fuel me through the week. I still have not gotten used to bumping along dirt roads and coming face-to-face with […]
I spent last weekend migrating between Craig, Bozeman and Big Sky as the official photographer for the Blue Water Task Force’s Fly Fishing Festival in Big Sky. Under the shadow of Lone Mountain, the event consisted of an eventing of F3T, a daylong festival of casting, impromptu water sliding, fly fishing-related vendors and kids digging […]
The sprint continues. I suddenly find myself knee deep in editorial assignments (total bliss) and this week Missouri River life is mixing with a honey farm, bamboo sourcing, a conservation project in Nevada and several other projects. Call it sanity preservation. Busy is good. Things are slowing up a bit on the river, though with […]
It’s suddenly the third week of July and we’re all in a bit of a time warp here on the Missouri. The relative slowness of August seems like a long time away. The shop is open early and late (0500 to well past 2100h), which translates into some very short nights of sleep if you […]
July madness is in full swing on the Missouri, and between working long hours at the shop, a hotbox of an apartment and a lovely, long-term run with cryptosporidia, I’ve rather been feeling like I’m living in a third-world country. A Russian fly fishing camp above the Arctic Circle had more creature comforts than this. […]
Independence Day brought a wealth of adventures to the village of Craig. Fireworks. Drift boats. Pool toys. Hot dogs. Beer. Flaming Stetsons. Oh yeah, and trout. A plethora of trout. The festivities were on full speed, and Headhunters and Joe’s Bar seemed to vie for the crowds. Joe’s had alcohol. We had free food and […]
The past week has been a blur. I just wrapped a seven-day stint at the shop, which in turn was coming straight off a three-day marathon of “real world” business in Bozeman. With a long list of things to do, stories to write and the day job, sleep has dropped to a secondary tier of […]
Somedays, oh-so-rarely, you catch the perfect light. Often perfect light, or even good light, is the result of setting up and waiting patiently for the sunlight to filter just right through the clouds. A process which sometimes takes hours. I’ve spent more than one very cold (or hot, pick the climate) evening camping out on […]
It’s been an odd week in central Montana, including being run off the road and walking into my apartment to find my entire floor – apartment wide – covered in water during a thunderstorm. Turns out windows that seemingly function don’t work as well when the sills fill up with water and said water streams […]
