Famous Folks

She Who Must Be Obeyed and I had the pleasure of spending a little time in the Bitterroot valley last spring, almost a year ago this week. Knocking around in ‘downtown’ Hamilton after a day’s work we stumbled across what is likely the niftiest eatery in town – the Spice of Life. Particularly for Montana […]

By this time you’ve no doubt seen mention that Arnold Richardson, the Montanan who played the aged but still fishing Norman Mclean in ‘the movie’, recently passed on. There have been several good write ups about Arnold offered up in the past few weeks; probably the best we’ve seen was done by a local Montana […]

Took in the ‘world premier’ of Confluence Films’ Rise last night at the Emerson right here in Bozeman along with a hoard of other enthusiastic fly fishing movie buffs. Suffice it to say now that Chris Patterson (director / cinematography) in particular shines again, and the flick offers up what was probably the funniest line […]

Stuck in the office here in Bozeman on what should be the first real BWO day of the fall season.  Damn. A quick scan of some of my favorite sites during an early lunch (waiting on ad copy for further design work) led to some further serious time wasting and discovery of a new, interesting […]

It’s become somewhat of a tradition around our camp to celebrate the birthday of my lovely wife – The One Who Must Be Obeyed – by a ‘tourist day’ in Yellowstone.  She is not subject to the whims of fisherfolk on this day – we traditionally start the day with a hearty breakfast at the […]

Yesterday I introduced to you Camille Egdorf, fly fisher extraordinaire.  Today, I would like to go into a little more detail about her experiences in the wilds of the Alaskan bush. Like I had mentioned earlier, the Egdorf family owns and operates two fishing camps in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska.  Dave and Kim […]

It is rare to meet a young woman with skill, incredible passion and active involvement in the sport of fly fishing.  It is even more rare when that young woman has been fly fishing almost since she could hold a rod, and spends four months of the year in the Alaskan bush country.  Until just […]

  Though today her name might not immediately cause the sun and beer addled brain of the average fly fisherman in America to make all necessary connections for immediate recognition – that’s soon to change in the case of Camille Egdorf.  Anyone who’s seen Red Gold and the Drake’s Fly Fishing Film Festival this year has […]