Events

Today is the last day to register for the Native Fish Society’s 19th Annual Homewaters Benefit Banquet + Auction to be held under the big top in Montgomery Park, Portland. More info and list of some pretty damned impressive auction items. Tickets.

There’s still time to take in the 9th Annual Wasatch Fly Tying and Fly Fishing Expo in SLC (Sandy) this weekend. Some very big western names on the demo and class schedule – details here.

There’s still room at the inn (banquet) for you and a plus one at the Bonefish and Tarpon Trust Annual Banquet in Naples tomorrow night featuring one of the legends of salt water fly fishing – Chico Fernandez. Tickets here.

Fly fishers will be rocking Charleston tomorrow night with F3T (brought in by Lowcountry Fly Shop and The Charleston Angler – well played to team up for this) with Pig Farm Ink’s Dirty South Iron Fly to follow the show across the bridge in Mt. Pleasant. Great city, great regional fishing and a good time […]

A worthy heads up from the American Museum of Fly Fishing in Manchester, VT: The First Annual Deborah Pratt Dawson Conservation Symposium is coming up 14-15 March in Manchester, VT. They have a bevy of speakers coming in, including… Dr. Michael Cooperman, Conservation International Amy Singler, American Rivers Cynthia Browning, Batten Kill Watershed Alliance Christopher […]

Given that a genuine home-brined corned beef brisket takes about 8 days to reach spice perfection, today is the day to dunk your briskets in preparation for St. Patrick’s Day coming up on the 17th. St. Patrick’s Day is serious business in Montana (see Butte history by just about any account), as is good food. […]

Raising cash for the Craig Volunteer Fire Department and having a spot of fun in the process. Donations welcome. Be there or be square. Website. Facebook.

As has already transpired in several neighboring Rocky Mountain states, Colorado will host a Public Lands Rally on the Capitol Steps tomorrow at noon. As has been the routine so far, there are some heavy hitter conservation and advocacy groups (TU, TRCP, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers and others) hoping to round up the troops and […]

There’s been good stuff happening with the Greenbacks in Colorado; their 5th Annual Surface Film event is coming up on Friday. From their site – Five years ago, a small group of conservation-minded anglers sat down to discuss how to excite a new generation of young, passionate anglers. The thought was simple – let’s change how […]

Montanans wandering around Alabama are about as rare as hen’s teeth. (Or a tasty school lunch these days if you’re too young and hip to get the hen’s teeth reference.) Brandon Boedecker of Pro Outfitters Montana will be giving a talk about fly fishing Montana at the Orvis shop in Birmingham Monday night starting at […]

Applications are due tomorrow for the Smith River!  You can get info on how to apply here. The Smith is an amazing float and an experience that every angler and lover of rivers should have at some point in their lifetime.  Launch dates are pretty hotly contested in the peak season, so start applying this […]

Tickets here; they won’t last much longer.

The Fly Fishing Film Tour (F3T) had it’s second stop on their nationwide tour in Bozeman last night.  As always, it generated quite the stir in the fly fishing community, and the shops in town quickly sold out of tickets a day before the show.  (Seriously people, get your tickets beforehand.  I bet I answered […]

F3T pops in Bozeman tonight and Jake just said the Bozeman Angler crew is hosting a pre-party from 5 to 630 with free beer, snacks and some giveaways – including Bug Collars from the Bozeman Fly Goods crew just down the road. Hot damn.