Chatting with folks back home we’ve heard more than one comment about the (relative) lack of snow so far this year. The past couple of winters have brought heavy, lingering snowpacks that changed the fly fishing dynamic throughout much of the northern Rockies and with another La Nina in place this winter, the forecast has […]
Weather
Back in the office after an early morning strategy meeting with some of our real world business team and lo and behold, there’s some weather moving in. There’s even a little lightning starting to pop and thunder rolling…..a longer post about fishing (and other) news from Yellowstone will have to wait….our power tends to fail […]
A few days ago I mentioned how impressed we were to see the amount of snow still down in the southern part of Yellowstone over the past few days. South of Old Faithful bison were still choosing the road to mosey. Looking at today’s snowpack maps from NOHRSC there’s still a hell of a lot […]
Overall things look a bit better than a week ago. While river flows are screaming, the widespread, heavy soaking rains haven’t been falling lately. Even with showers forecast for much of the area the next few days, most folks don’t feel like they need to finish the ark they started a few weeks ago. Snowpack […]
Speaking with friends and enemies back home in Montana, it’s painfully clear that winter was painfully long for most of the state (you can see snow is still falling this morning in some areas). It’s also crystal clear that flood waters are doing much more than inconveniencing fly fishers; parts of the state are being […]
Rain and snowpack melt are starting to make things interesting……
The runoff season begins in earnest….
Gina Loss, a National Weather Service hydrologist in Great Falls, projects that this year’s runoff in Montana, at least Western Montana, will be “sensational”. A potent weather system has pounded southwestern and southern Montana this weekend with rain and snow. The pic to the right from this morning’s NWS forecast site out of Missoula confirms […]
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 […]
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. […]
Damn, missing the season already. It was -7 in Bozeman this morning with some cold weather due for the weekend and next week. Ouch.
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 […]
Popped over the past to the Paradise Valley a couple of days ago to discuss a nifty new project concept (hot damn!) with a colleague; it happened to be Monday afternoon in the several hours before our latest little batch of weather moved in. The beauty of the surrounding countryside is truly a two-edge sword; […]
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
