The Greater Yellowstone area has been a magnet for the world’s fly fisher folk for decades. We’d probably go as far to agree wholeheartedly with our friend John Juracek that the area serves as a mecca of sorts in the fly fishing world – at some point in their life most fly fishermen are moved […]
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Winter Solstice Lunar Eclipse from William Castleman on Vimeo. From the steady hand of University of Florida Professor of Veterinary Pathology William Castleman.
Short winter days probably don’t impact the routine of most scurrying urbanites, at least from what I can observe ensconced temporarily here in Austin. (That isn’t meant to be quite as disdainful as it might sound.) On the other hand, for those whose work or play pivots around hours of available sunlight and the […]
Taken almost a year ago to the day in Bozeman; there’s probably more snow on the ground now. You can bet the Gallatin, Madi and Yellowstone already have slush ice flowin’.
The last several days my fishing colleagues and I have chatted a time or two about the dramatic reports of snow-induced travails of those living along the eastern seaboard. The media has portrayed a couple of feet of snow as an almost apocalyptic event, paralyzing the cities and and painting a broad stripe of hardship […]
The first week of January almost inevitably finds lots of fly fisher folk itchy to get out and stretch after the holiday season. This year in particular finds me among that cadre – the past six weeks or so (since Thanksgiving) have been the busiest in memory and it’s been damned cold around the neighborhood. […]
NOAA has recently posted information about what a cold October it was – here’s the link. Before the onslaught of emails chiding our mere mention of global climatology – save the pixels and bandwidth – we’ve heard the pitch of how the climate is still heating up despite it seemingly getting cooler. I’ll see your […]
A hearty welcome to the Fall season, though you probably wouldn’t know today is the autumnal equinox given the neighborhood weather. Here’s to some cooler, cloudy, drizzly Blue Wing Olive fall days. Wahoo. Image credit: redOrbit
As it seemingly always does in here in southern Montana, the transition from late spring into early summer is passing in fits and starts again this year. Not that many weeks ago there were snow flurries in the air. Since then we’ve seen days in the 90’s followed by days in the 40’s; tank tops […]
This week’s weather forecast for the neighborhood looks like it was crafted by a dry fly fisherman or two. Here’s what the weather gurus say we have coming up for the greater Bozeman area over the next few days…. Several of the waters in the Park are already looking better this week (Firehole and Madison […]
I just came back into my office after being out for a couple of hours; as it’s pushing 70 here in Bozeman this afternoon (hello Mr. Runoff), my windows of course were left open. Just as I was mumbling about what a pig my suite mate was, I turned the corner into my office and […]
For the past week, it has been snowing here in Bozeman. Many people, myself included, are getting pretty fed up with the snow by now. Spring snow can reduce some fly fishermen to pathetic depths. Normally during these spring storms, enormous amounts of alcohol are consumed as the fisherman nervously ties flies and checks out […]
Mother nature’s going to throw a curveball over the next few days, just after most of us in the neighborhood were getting used to this balmy weather. Gallatin Field near Bozeman hit 80 on Tuesday and yesterday– that’s ‘blow out my favorite river warm’. The curveball pitch is a cool and moist weather system moving […]
It snowed a bit in Bozeman last night, and is still pounding away this morning. The drifter is over in Jake’s neighborhood, and the downed tree “branch” is over near the college here in town (distorted a bit through Jake’s jeep windshield). Maybe that forecast for 2 feet in the mountains around isn’t so […]
