February may be known for Valentine’s Day, the holiday where every romantically inclined male is guilted into buying ridiculously overpriced flowers and chocolates. But there is another, perhaps more important holiday coming up this month: National Margarita Day. Yes, an entire day to celebrate the sweet, tangy tequila goodness that is a margarita. While much […]
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One of our gang has a photo essay in the latest (March 2011) issue of Cowboys and Indians out this month. Almost all of the images were shot around Bozeman and the Greater Yellowstone area. They’re not all fly fishing related but certainly represent a glimpse of life around the neighborhood. Jess (Fire Girl Photography) […]
I can already hear the cries of “bullshit!” at the title of this post. My own voice would have been one of the loudest a few days ago. Apparently, based on strong anecdotal evidence, Texas did at one time have a population of native, wild trout. The Rio Grande Cutthroat lived in the Davis Mountains, […]
While you clearly wouldn’t know it from the pic taken of her this past fall at the Greek Creek campground on the Gallatin, we’re adding a pretty damned active Jess back to the Team Chi Wulff roster. [In an attempt to offer somewhat of a limited defense of her obvious sloth, she had just completed […]
Mark is up in Colorado for a few days, the lucky bastard. Even though its a working trip for just a few days and it is the middle of winter, I’m still pretty jealous. But such is life. Dr. Dumbass was back in the shop the other day, raving on and on about what a […]
My friends, it is good to be writing again. This past week has been a blur of angry customers, phone calls, long lines and short tempers. Anyone who has ever worked retail during the holidays knows exactly what I’m talking about. The retail death march. Back in the fly shop things haven’t been too bad, […]
Yellowstone National Park opened yesterday for snowcoach and snowmobile traffic. Lets hope its another winter like the one pictured above, taken in West Yellowstone. Damnation, some snow and cold sounds pretty good right now. Down here its approaching 80 degrees again. Damn. This is the second year of the controversial winter plan for Yellowstone, which […]
Believe me, we’d rather grab the dog and hit the river. Even if it’s a bright summer day. And none of us even have a dog. (There’s one in the drifter, though a bit hard to see.) With winter upon us and wading through the faux busyness (yep, that is the correct spelling) of the […]
Just saw this on the Bozeman Daily Chronicle website this morning. It would seem that due to the incredible population growth of the greater Bozeman area, water rights and regulations are going to be changing again. Check out the full story here. Having spent most of my life there, I can fully understand and appreciate […]
It always shocks me to encounter someone like this. Someone who, in the entirety of their life, has never been fishing. shudder How sad it is. It was a late night at my second job, and I had been given the option to pick up a few more hours to help clean. Our tasks were […]
It has been a busy week for the fans of fishing stocked trout out of the Guadalupe River here in Texas. Texas Wildlife and Parks began their stocking program on the 3rd, and will continue every week as the season progresses. The river banks have simply been packed to the gills, as it were, mainly […]
One of the blogs everyone here at Chi Wulff reads every day has nothing to do with fly fishing. It is Seth’s Blog, written by business writer Seth Godin. Every day he has something good to say. Even if you don’t own your own business or even work in that realm at all, it is […]
Last night at the fly shop, I had the (dis)pleasure of meeting one of the self proclaimed experts on trout fishing in the world. In order to maintain his true identity I’ll just call him Dr. Dumbass. Dr. Dumbass had several amazing revelations to share with me. First off: there are no trout over 18 […]
Due to recent experiences at the workplace in which I have been lectured and cajoled about how much better the trout fishing is here in Texas than anywhere else, I feel compelled to pull the soapbox out of the closet and make a stand. Since my hands are pretty much tied at the fly shop […]
Down here in Texas, there are several events in fishing that people look forward to all year long. The redfish spawn in the fall, the bass spawn in the spring, and the stocking of hatchery trout in various rivers, lakes and city ponds in the winter. While most of these pale, confused hatchery fish are […]
