Back a few weeks ago (damn, try a month ago…) I hacked out this post and promised a deeper look into the worlds of pay to play and fantasy fly fishing. Pay to play is easy to understand; what constitutes fantasy fishing might generate more discussion. See the linked post for what we’ll suggest should be […]
I Call Bullshit
The risk of opening with a trite platitude duly noted – life has it’s ups and downs. One doesn’t have to look very for examples this week. It’s still hotter than hell’s kitchen in much of the country, it’s already mid-August and not nearly enough fishing has been done, the domestic and world equity markets […]
Nice post from Gracie yesterday with links to posts he’s done busting some of the more common myths about bonefishing. Unless he does some modeling on the side we suspect MG’s not a bull rider and that’s probably not him in the picture. He does do a nice job of busting bonefish bull in several […]
Via the Montana TU – HB 309, Rep. Jeff Wellborn (R-Dillon). Radically changes Montana stream access laws so that natural channels modified in part by irrigation structures, or whose flows are augmented by water returned by irrigation, would be defined as “ditches,” and thus off limits to recreation without permission. FWP and MTU analysis indicates […]
A concerning missive from Jambalaya Bob – Thought you might find this interesting. My friend Josh at Gates Lodge reports that he’s been experiencing a run on hackle lately. Seems it’s currently fashionable for the young women to tie hackle into their hair and look all wistful and what-not. Fly fishing folks I know around […]
Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems. – William Shakespeare The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. – John F. Kennedy Many, many thanks to those who continue to rally the troops to fight HB […]
We’re fishing around this morning trying to find out when Rep. Jeff Wellborn’s miscreant of a bill (HB 309) is going to the floor for a vote. No luck so far this morning (as of 1020); it’s once again not on the schedule for the house and we have several emails out looking for new […]
Montana’s cartoon character of a governor, Brian Schweitzer, has recently let his forked tongue wiggle yet again. (In the interest of full disclosure, we knew Schweitzer was a typical schizoid, lying bastard politician before he was elected to the governor’s office during our days living in the Flathead. I hate to say anything bad about […]
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 […]
We’ve been hearing bits and pieces of this story for a few weeks now, and lo and behold Richard Lessner, PhD, the Executive Director of the Madison River Foundation in Ennis has just published a nice report on the project in the 14 July 2009 MRF newsletter. Here’s his piece in its entirety – […]
