Author Archives: Greg Thomas
Your Top Five Steelhead Books
Was perusing some blogs the other day and came across a thread that listed a bloggers top five steelhead books of all time. I know what mine are but I thought it might be fun for all you fellow chrome-heads … Continue reading
Gaspe, Grand Casapedia Day 2
Pretty amazing to walk into some of these runs to see dark shapes scattered across the bottom, sometimes five or six side-by-side. In some cases there a hundred or more fish in each run and if you’ve fished steelhead in … Continue reading
Posted in CANADA, Spey, US & Canada
Tagged Gaspe Peninsula salmon rivers, Grand Cascapedia, Petite Cascapedia, Quebec Atlantic salmon
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Fast Start on the Gaspe Peninsula
Can’t say much right now. Other than . . . what a start to a week. More tomorrow.
Posted in Backcountry, CANADA, Culture
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The Sawmill Gulch Spider Attack
Rolling down Sawmill Gulch, probably going 25 mph and I look up and this thing is hanging in mid-air right in the middle of a super narrow single track trail. I wanted to lock up the brakes on my mountain … Continue reading
Posted in Montana, Sports
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CONTEST: YOUR Top 5 Northwest Steelhead Fly Fishing Tips
I can spew info on Northwest steelhead all day, but I know my audience and some of you get to spend more time chasing chrome than I do, these days. I thought it might be interesting to know what your … Continue reading
Yukon Lake trout video
This is just as amateurish as the last video, but this one is of a lake trout. Had a 35mm hanging around my neck and just hoped it was pointed in the right direction. At least you get to see … Continue reading
Yukon Pike Video
This isn’t professional grade. But I think you’ll get a Thursday laugh by watching this. I shot this, amateurishly I admit, while fishing at Kluane Wilderness Lodge on Wellesley Lake Yukon Territory in June. This is a little pike in … Continue reading
Posted in CANADA, US & Canada
Tagged Fly fishing northern pike, Kluane Wilderness Lodge, Wellesley Lake
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Igloo’s Yukon 70 Cold Locker: The Weekend Test
Ok, got to spend some serious camping/fishing time with Igloo’s new Yukon 70 Cold Locker, which showed up on my doorstep last week and travelled with me to Idaho’s Iron Lake, at 8,000 feet, this past weekend. I loaded the … Continue reading
TU On Threats of Climate Change on America’s freshwater fisheries resources
Trout Unlimited is one of my favorite conservation organizations and they have been so for a long time. So I wanted to share a new announcement of there’s with Tonic faithful. gt WASHINGTON, D.C.—Trout Unlimited today praised a report released … Continue reading
Sunken RO Driftboat in The Yellowstone River
Our friends over in Bozeman with RO Driftboats could use your help. They dumped a boat in the Yellowstone this weekend and haven’t found it. If you were/are floating there, chucking hoppers and droppers for big browns, keep your eyes … Continue reading
Posted in Culture, Industry, Montana
Tagged Fly Fishing the Yellowstone River, RO Drift Boats
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