Pic of the Day

Another attempt at ancient smartphone photography. Enjoy.

Fire Girl Jess snagged some nifty pics as she drove through Yellowstone and by the Tetons on the way to the metropolis of Pinedale, Wy where she’ll be moving shortly to join a local newspaper (yep, they still have ’em out there) as a reporter / photographer. She’ll be covering conservation issues (among other things) […]

I ran up to Hyalite Reservoir last Friday to get out of town for a little bit and cast a line.  I also hadn’t really seen snow in the mountains in too damn long.  It was nice fishing from the shore and being cold for a change.  It was also nice being up there, at […]

Deschutes 2012, The photos of Darcy Bacha from marty sheppard on Vimeo.

Like anyone else, I fish tailwaters a fair bit. They often have great fishing and sometimes they have fantastic scenery to go with it. Freestones seem to be the other way around. Fantastic scenery is a given, while the fishing itself can be hit or miss. I took these two shots on a Wyoming freestone […]

For a host of friends around the country it’s been (and still is) a long, hot, fire and smoke-filled summer. More than one conversation of late has looked longingly toward the cooler days of fall and even the brittle days of winter in the northern Rockies. Fall will be knocking on the front door of […]

She Who Must Be Obeyed has had a couple of 0600 mornings and I’ve wandered down to the shorefront in town to try and catch some morning light views of the Olympics (thwarted by summer haze both times). The Sound was slick yesterday morning save for a few harbor seal dimples and the ‘almost not […]

Got a phone call last night from Shane asking what I was doing after work, saying “I better not be hanging out with my girlfriend”.  I asked him why and learned his plan: night fishing.  Neither of us had ever night fished before, but he had tied a bunch of big streamers and I bought […]