Josh Bergen wrote about the slightly alarming rise of water temperatures on some of our Western rivers over at his blog Troutbugs. I had been thinking about this same topic on July 4 when I drove up to the lower Henry’s Fork at 8 a.m. hoping for a PMD hatch and didn’t see a fish […]
Water on the Brain
I think I probably first read about the Quigley Cripple in a Jack Dennis book, but I can’t really remember. These were the days when I spent a lot of time dreaming about fishing flat-water, dry fly Meccas like Silver Creek or the Missouri River or Bob Quigley’s Hat Creek and very little time realizing […]
I tend to think that we fly fishing anglers have something of a schizophrenic relationship with dams. By this I mean we are of two minds on the subject, and those two minds seem to operate best when they feel the other does not exist. The popular opinion, of course, is that dams are inherently […]
Eastern Idaho Water from Kevin Emery – Life is Fly on Vimeo.
Recently, there was a great Joe Posnanski post (its curiously long) about the last night of the MLB (baseball) regular season. For those unfamiliar, let me summarize (don’t worry, it will be quick, I understand the being unfamiliar with the end of the MLB regular season is a choice you’ve made). The last night of […]
Hells Canyon Snake River white water rafting from Celebrate Big on Vimeo.
I wrote once about my belief that the dead of winter is the cruelest time for any trout fisherman. You’ve got the near-lethal cold, the weeks upon weeks until the first mayflies might hatch, and the painfully short bursts of sunshine amid marathons of gray. I still believe all that. But this spring and summer […]
New gallery up on our Dry Fly Media portfolio site this morning – River Ice. Regular readers understand that we think rivers and moving water are pretty damned nifty; water tends to be a big part of where we work and play and what we image. If you’re a warm weather fly fisher guy […]
Two things to ponder this fine Saturday: One, fly fisher folk love moving, fishy water. So do we. Here’s another pic from our Water on the Brain series. Two, ran across the following graphic detailing some of the more interesting demographics about cell phone use. I would have guessed that the easily distracted, hedonistic American […]
We love water. We could look at, listen to, stand in and smell water all day long. Now and again we’ll be posting some of our favorite water shots from out and about in the new category Water on the Brain. [Our further thanks to the giants of the Brownline movement has been delayed by […]
