I’ve written before about how fishing places with lots of people just isn’t my thing. That’s one of the reasons I log a lot more hours on the river during the off season than the summer. But even during the crush of summer there are still a lot of places that just don’t have many […]
Local’s Prerogative
From the Blue Ribbon Flies (West Yellowstone) shop newsletter this morning… I need your help. Long story today but please read on. Last evening I spent a delightful time with fishing friends Cliff and Kathy Schaeffer of Livingston, MT. We arrived on the Madison just after a hailstorm passed through. The sun attempted to […]
I think the first series I ever wrote for Chi Wulff was From Russia with Love, tales of working in a Ponoi River salmon fishing camp in Russia. That segued into Dispatches From Craig, arguably one of the more productive, fun projects I’ve worked on to date. A crazy season on the Missouri River back […]
Your 4th of July mission, should you decide to accept it, comes in three parts today. Part One: Go Fish. Simple. Direct. To the point. We hope you’re out there right now in fact. If we could choose where we’d all be standing today, it just might be on the banks of the Firehole (below) […]
Rod Time with Big Joe Ep. 1 Mtn Whitefish from Waist Deep Media on Vimeo.
A Few Runs Through It from carl beideman on Vimeo. The worst winter of my life doesn’t look so bad in a three minute burst. Just a few of the better runs I scraped together mashed up with my winter/spring fishing around Missoula. While the Bitterroot and Mission mountains are glorious, access is limited. A […]
Every now and then you just need to have one of those days that really gets you fired back up about fishing. It’s always fun and interesting, but you need those days when it’s just lights out good to really keep you hooked. I had one of those days last week. I haven’t gotten much […]
Two groups are working hard to call attention to the risk pending for Montana’s beloved Smith River; both could use your support in calling attention to what some are calling “another Pebble Mine” debacle. We talk to people from around the country just about every day who say they’d like to help preserve and protect […]
What really makes for a “good day” on the river? It’s a question we bounce around in the shop a fair amount when people always say “I had a good day today on the (insert river name here)”. One man’s good day might be considered average, or even bad, to some people. So what does […]
Last weekend saw another opening day, and an important one for the region: the opening of the fishing season for Yellowstone National Park. Not only does Memorial Day mean the start of tourist season and “summer”, but every year it brings the start of fishing in the park. Yellowstone is one of those places that […]
Weekend Warrior from Drew Burrington on Vimeo. Plump late spring flows aren’t always best fished.
I am a catch and release guy. Almost 100% of the time. Certainly in the rivers. But every now and then, I get the urge to go out and catch dinner. Fortunately we have the perfect place for that right around Bozeman. The local reservoir is not only the town’s water supply but it stocked […]
One of the great ones is gone today. RIP BB King.
Find Your Water: Season 1, Episode 1: Our Backyard from Redingtongear on Vimeo. Nifty piece from the good folks at Redington.
John, Mark and the Headhunters gang celebrated the shop’s 7th anniversary / birthday on Saturday the 4th. It seems like only yesterday, during the depths of the Lehman crash in the winter of 08/09, that Jake and I talked about the fact that only crazy people would be starting a new business, above all a […]
