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The good fishers over at Winged Reel have just kicked off their 2nd Annual Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Gear Drive and are accepting donations with a goal of topping last year’s donation of over $50,000 in gear and goods. Read all about at the link above and check back to see the updating list […]

So it’s Monday, Monday of Thanksgiving week, and you’d rather be standing in water, tropical water over a sandy bottom, throwing something bone-fishy into the wind, needing to legitimately use your double haul. For those of us perhaps needing a tune up, here’s a pretty nifty training trick from Pete K of Orvis Fly Fishing […]

Having a long time fascination with certain aspects of the West Coast (one of which happens to be anadromous fish), the political events of the past week, and some of the subsequent reactions to such, have led to some damned entertaining commentary. The near immediate cries for California, Oregon and Washington secession prompted a friend […]

Fishing ladies (or guys looking for Christmas present ideas!), Jess McGlothlin and Camille Egdorf are hosting Yellow Dog’s first ladies-only hosted trip February 6 – 11, 2017. This trip is going to fill fast, so save your spot before we’re sold out! Jess is bringing her camera along, so as an added bonus, expect some fun images […]

Eleven Mothership: Experience the Everglades from Eleven Experience on Vimeo. Damn, that looks fun. Hat tip: Kara Armano. Thanks KA!

Public comment opportunities upcoming on the Snake River Dams PORTLAND, Oregon – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation and Bonneville Power Administration have announced their intent to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) on the Columbia River System operations and configurations for 14 federal projects in the interior Columbia Basin. In this […]

Jackson Hole icon Peter Moyer forwarded over this very nice write up of Simms founder, lifelong inventor, sculptor-artist and serial entrepreneur John Simms in the September issue of Big Life magazine. The Simms gear you cherish drying in your mudroom owes it’s existence to a host of adventurous, skilled and intelligent folks, but perhaps most […]

Of course served up with the requisite grain of salt (or two), NOAH’s climatology forecasts for the next three months (November, December, January) suggest fairly normal / seasonal temps for the northern Rockies with above normal precipitation. May it be so, as early snowpack (any snowpack for that matter) is always good. One month never […]

We’re hook, line and sinker supportive of greater diversity in fishing. More on bonefish diversity from BTT here (and that’s their image above).

Pelicans from MT Fish, Wildlife & Parks on Vimeo.

Yoda-master Headhunters guide and co-owner Mark Raisler has written a nifty piece today on the Headhunters blog about letting your guide actually guide you – read it here. Living temporarily in a land where it’s seemingly extremely rare for fishers to fish sans fly guide this should be required reading, though the guys (and gals) […]

Like many of you, we’re of course following updates from Montana’s Yellowstone with rapt interest these days. Like many of you, we’re impressed by the magnitude of the closure and amazed by the amount of misinformation (and disinformation) being presented out there, to our collective eyes most aptly displayed in the various regional newspaper articles […]

Off the Grid on a Homemade Island from Great Big Story on Vimeo.

In case you’re too damned busy tending to things in the real world today, it bears notice that today is indeed National Rum Day. To all our pirate and damn-I-wish-I-was-a-pirate compadres out there, we plan to raise a glass in your honor this evening. Cheers to all today.