Yearly Archives November 28, 2012

We hear it all the time, "reels are nothing more than expensive line holders." This might be the truth when fishing small streams and lakes for average sized trout or other freshwater species. The reality is...

Perched atop my lookout, I'd seen this fish cruise in and out of this backwater. A healthy rainbow wandering slowly and occasionally swallowing suspended morsels or going tail up for one off the bottom. It's...

So obviously fall is here. Even the "evergreen" are changing colors 'round these parts. Just a reminder to pick your head up from the water to look at what's around you! Hope fall is treating everyone well!...

"What are the chances?" said Nate. "Who knows?" I responded, "but it was the baddest brown I have ever seen!" Rewind several hours and once again that cursed alarm is buzzing uncontrollably.  A long drive...

The task seemed daunting at times, almost impossible to tell you the truth. It's the hunt, the challenge, the reward, those rare times when things just come together. I am talking about hunting trophy brown...

Back on the road again, the first leg of the week long fishing adventure had concluded. More than content to have caught an amazing fish, the rest of that night's drive passed quickly. It was about 6 hours in...

We receive a fair amount of inquiries and it seems that over the last little bit many of those inquiries have been in reference to night fishing tips. Not that I - or we - are pros by any means, but I've been...

Mishaps and days where you think nothing else can go wrong.... These are the days that we call paying dues and this trip just happened to be one of those trips, one of those days....

Hundreds of miles of driving, miles and miles of hiking, camping in the woods with unpredictable fall weather in the forecast, all in order to chase char? What can you say when you are invited to go on a week...

There we were chattering excitedly about the next days fishing adventure. We had just pulled on the the highway and driven no more than a few miles when... slam!!!...

So when I first started blogging I had a blog called "Fishies and Freshies" cause back then skiing and fly fishing were about 50/50 for me as far as stoke level. Turns out that about the time that I started...

Eyes tired and sick of driving. I had been in the car for hours, although with the amount of time on the road lately you think I would be used to it by now. I was heading back to Utah from Montana for a quick...

Pulling up to the Missoula airport waiting for Matt and Kyle to come out I thought, the time is finally here! Months of phone calls, emails and planning finally about to become reality....

We've spent a number of nights out in the dark lately with menial results. He're is one of Phil's successes: Despite the need our physical bodies have to sleep, night-time opportunities to catch over-sized...

In between guide trips I had a day off to do some hiking and fishing for grayling in the mountains of Utah. Meanwhile, my wife was back home coordinating the assembly and packaging of 200k meals for starving...

I'm not a photographer - I'm a fishing addict. I'm also pretty obsessed with trout. They're beautiful. It has; however, started to bug me a little when I get back from trips and all I have is a bunch of fish...

The Lay Down sally is easy to tie and it hunts! What more do you want, chucko? It's proven itself to picky feesh.

It seems like everytime I have been to Montana lately the weather has tried to shut me down. Rain, lightning and hail. I get a few hours each day to go chase fish and the weather suddenly turns on me....

Blitz trip. Again. I think this was the gnarliest one we've taken this year so far, but you gotta pay your dues right? Sometimes it pays off and sometimes it doesn't. We had a little of both but without a...

I don't even recall when we arrived at our ultimate destination in Wyoming. It was late. I swear we get dumber and dumber the more we fish together....