Posted in Fishing, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Trout fishing on September 17, 2007 | 13 Comments »
There’s a formula I use for catching trout and it’s very simple, really. Just tie on one of these: (my own design, by the way, and far from perfect, but perfect flies don’t catch fish… convincing ones do.)
Apply it appropriately right along here: (this is one of my favorite slow riffles about a mile upstream [...]
Posted in Fishing, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Photography, Photos, Pictures, Wildflowers on July 1, 2007 | 4 Comments »
Yesterday afternoon was an ideal time for fishing a small stream and therefore I did just that. (Well, someone had to! )
This is a stream I have the privilege of sharing with some real fishermen who live there. Here’s one of them:
I think that’s Mrs. Osprey, either getting her nest ready (does it seem large [...]
Posted in Fishin' stories, Fishing, Humor, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Trout fishing on May 9, 2007 | 13 Comments »
I love the opening day of trout season in Montana, when I get to re-learn everything I forgot since last year! While the season doesn’t open for two more weeks yet, I can vividly remember opening day last year because I took notes:
Yesterday I Drove out to the Little Thompson River.
The fun started with the [...]
Posted in Conservation, Environment, Fishing, Montana, Nature, Outdoors on April 22, 2007 | 20 Comments »
“two sets of rules”… “one for the rich and one for the rest of us”.
The picture painted in this story in the Kalispell Montana Daily Interlake on June 6, 2006 is an idyllic one of a man finding “balance” in his life in the wild outdoors of Montana and helping others to do the same. [...]
Posted in Fishin' stories, Fishing, Humor, Montana, Nature, Outdoors on April 21, 2007 | 6 Comments »
It’s a fact of life these days, and probably soon to be enacted into law, that you must be specifically (and expensively) dressed and equipped for every recreational activity in which you intend to engage, including but not limited to, fly fishing for trout.
The Federal trout fishing dress code regulations have not yet been [...]
Posted in Fishin' stories, Fishing, Humor, Montana, Nature, Outdoors on April 17, 2007 | 10 Comments »
Most people who aren’t intimately involved with the outdoors have the impression that fishing is done in oceans, lakes, streams, rivers and an occasional pond. Nothing could be further from the truth! As any experienced fly caster can tell you, most fishing is done in trees!
My personal favorite fishing tree here in Montana is the [...]
Posted in Fishin' stories, Fishing, Humor, Montana, Outdoors on April 12, 2007 | 6 Comments »
Give a man a fish and you’ve fed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish and you’ve pretty much ruined his marriage!
As usual in the off season (defined as any time I’m not actually out on a stream fishing) I was tying up another batch of trout flies, when my wife walked in and [...]
Posted in Fishing, Humor, Montana, Outdoors on April 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
(I don’t know how a horse got involved in this, but it did make an interesting title, didn’t it?)
I was planning a fishing trip the other day and while filling out the Environmental Impact Statement now required for an outdoor activity causing any conceivable impact on the status of wildlife (and since it was my [...]
Posted in Fishing, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Reflections on March 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Just off the south shoulder of snow-capped Thompson Peak in the Cabinet Mountains of western Montana, an ice cold mountain spring gushes out from among the bright green alders, striking blue lupines and tall spring-time grasses and its water begins a long and tumultuous journey to the Pacific some five hundred miles to the west.
A [...]
Posted in Fishing, Montana, Nature, Outdoors, Reflections on March 17, 2007 | No Comments »
I should know better than to write another fishing story, since as I recall, that was the activity which caused my banishment from polite society in the first place many years ago. Oh well, old dogs may not learn new tricks, but they remember all their bad habits very well! So, here goes…
One Saturday morning [...]
