While we miss our home digs in Bozeman with a passion, serving time in exile down in the Lone Star State has proven to hold some advantages. Granted, the machinations of setting up a regional office for our business down here is often a pain in the ass, though there are certain compensations that come […]
Friday Feast
A few years after She Who Must Be Obeyed and I were married we had the good fortune to head West for another stint of training. Salt Lake City these days doesn’t really conjure up images of The Wild West, but back in 1984, less several hundred thousand folks (damn the Californians), it was a […]
For many of our fishy friends in Montana today will be a genuine hangover day. We’ll assume that this morning’s headache and other associated symptoms were well earned. No doubt, at least for St. Patrick’s Day traditionalists, part of yesterday’s debauchery included the consumption of corned beef in one form or another. Like thousands of […]
She Who Must Be Obeyed and I had the pleasure of spending a little time in the Bitterroot valley last spring, almost a year ago this week. Knocking around in ‘downtown’ Hamilton after a day’s work we stumbled across what is likely the niftiest eatery in town – the Spice of Life. Particularly for Montana […]
Cruisin’ through the grocery store a couple of days ago I was stopped dead in my tracks by the sign. “Fresh Brown Gulf Shrimp – 6 Hour Sale” They were truly fresh, plump and firm, smelled of the Gulf and were $7.99 a pound. Hot damn. There are only a few virtues to living in […]
Back in the day (way back in the day) my grandparents had a beach house a few hundred yards upriver from the mouth of Colorado River where it emptied into the Gulf of Mexico. It was a large shack in all honesty, painted a shameless red and named the Mason Rouge. Destroyed several times by […]
While spring may be setting up shop in much of the country today, it’s -21 this morning back home in Bozeman and snow’s falling across much of the nation’s northern tier. Damn. Save for the benefit of a deepening snowpack, by the end of February the joys of winter are wearing a little thin. […]
The ‘greater family’ of fly fishers has always held a deep fascination for me. We’ve all met fisher folk on the river who could best be described as a prick, princess-bitch, asshat, dumbass or some other colorful epithet. (Those are all unisex adjectives in our book by the way.) Perhaps it doesn’t work this way […]
For some reason, Montana’s political snafus of the week duly noted, trying to fish Cuba this year is making more and more sense. Stories abound of astounding fly fishing (see video above) and mouth-watering, spicy foods. The cigars and rum you’re already picturing clearly in your minds eye. While we’re a long, long way from […]
“Bet you can’t eat just one.” That was the unmistakable provocation blurted by our hostess (Eddie) as we walked into her kitchen a couple of weeks ago. While the precise wording of my droll retort escapes memory this morning, it was something along the lines of anybody taking even a fleeting glance at me would […]
What do limes, chickens and chile peppers have in common? At first glance, not a hell of a lot. Combine chicken wings, fresh lime juice and honest-to-goodness real chile powder in very carefully orchestrated proportions, however, and you’ll hold the magnum opus of grilled goodness in your very own hand. Everyone agrees that the high […]
Mention New Mexico to most fly fishers and images of the San Juan, Pecos and Upper Rio Grande come to mind. Indeed those are nifty waters, and there are miles and miles of smaller water around the mountain country of New Mexico that is oft overlooked, accessible and little pressured. Mention New Mexico to folks […]
With winter weather holding much of the country in its icy fingers how could we offer anything this morning but steaming hot, stick to the ribs comfort food. It’s even been a bit chilly here at Chi Wulff South this week. Highs in the 30’s have induced the natives to dress as if they’re stepping […]
Right now the plan seems sorta stupid. Needed to run some things to Castle Rock, CO (from Austin) and get back in just over 48 hours for a meeting at noon today. Anyone who’s had the pleasure of making that drive understands that it offers about 4 hours of decent scenery (with sparse fishable water […]
Another Friday and another holiday weekend. Hot damn. Here’s an insanely easy way to begin your festivities to ring in the New Year tonight – Grilled Tuna with Honey Peach Chipotle Glaze. This has long been one of the gang’s favorite recipes – there are few things as nifty as a fresh tuna slab seared […]
