In the Madison off Riverside Drive in the Park; caught a nifty passing storm to the west.
Yellowstone
From the Tenkara USA blog…. The first Tenkara Summit in the US was a great success, over 100 people attended and enjoyed awesome presentations as well as an on-stream demonstration with Dr. Ishigaki. This will be a quick post. Even though the event is over, we’ve been sleeping little and fishing pretty hard today with […]
During our last run back home to Montana Jake and I had a chance to revisit the “would you rather wade or float” conundrum. A year ago we made decision to drag the team cataraft down to Austin from Bozeman, thinking we’d use it on some of the area water. We probably mostly had in […]
For the men and women in the Northern Rockies whose livelihood and / or sanity depends upon access to summer fly fishing water, the early summer season has been interminable. River flows have been record breaking in many watersheds. For weeks. And weeks. The last few days have offered a glimmer of hope though. Flows […]
The most current reporting dealing with the Yellowstone River Oil Spill we can dig up this morning includes this report from the Billings Gazette – Oil Cleanup Continues on the Yellowstone River and a press release today from the EPA (written yesterday and released today). Clearly as flows drop, pending spikes potentially to be induced […]
Trout Unlimited’s Statement on the ExxonMobil Oil Spill in the Yellowstone River near Billings, Mont. Trout Unlimited deplores the spill of oil, equal to at least 1,000 barrels, into one of America’s most treasured rivers, the Yellowstone. On July 1, an ExxonMobil pipeline running underneath the Yellowstone River outside of Laurel, Mont., burst, spewing a […]
Interview video featuring several speakers including Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer. Watch the full episode. See more PBS NewsHour. Here’s a couple of solid quotes from the vid – … that Montana — well, Montana’s interests aren’t perfectly aligned with ExxonMobil’s and the EPA’s. Our interests are for the wealth and the health of the Yellowstone […]
The smartest thing we read so far regarding the 1000 barrel Yellowstone River oil spill comes from Flathead country, through the thoughtful reasoning of Wayne at Will Fish For Work. Read the entire post here, though the money paragraph is the third one – I think this would be good time for Montanan’s to demand […]
From Reuters – Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer questioned Exxon’s contention that the spill into the Yellowstone, the longest undammed river in the United States, was concentrated within a 10-mile area. “This is a lot of wild country, and they haven’t any idea whether it’s 5 miles, 50 miles or 100 miles, they’re guessing,” Schweitzer, a […]
There’s an image and a blog headline we never figured we’d be posting here. Yesterday found our team otherwise engaged (we were all working at various posts) when the news broke of a pipeline rupture / leak beneath the mighty Yellowstone River. Our first reaction – dammit to hell. Didn’t really start digging into the […]
Trying to hold to a reasonable standard of optimism, given that July is a couple of days away and that river flow trends had been looking a tiche better over the past few days, yesterday we planned to post this morning a few area river flows that had been improving. That post was to have […]
I’d be an absolute lying dog if I didn’t admit that She Who Must Be Obeyed and I were as happy as clams to be back in home country. It’s fairly easy to get a little road rash making the drive from Austin back home to Bozeman in two days, though SWMBO held up well […]
