Category Archives: Northern Rockies
The Seattle Times on Idaho’s Salmon River Sockeye
If you have five minutes, it’s worth reading this story from the Seattle Times about all the efforts made to keep Idaho’s sockeye salmon from going extinct. As you’ll read, each sockeye that returns to the Salmon River and, eventually, … Continue reading
Planned Logging Could Jeopardize Alberta Bull Trout
A quick follow up on a story I provided earlier this week. Looks like there will be fights to come as Alberta struggles with consumptive industry versus saving their provincial fish, the bull trout. Here’s the story
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New Addition to The Family
Just picked up my 2011 whitetail from Shawn Andres and the boys at Alpine Artistry outside Arlee, Mont. This deer meant a lot to me as I’d been looking for a big whitetail for a long time and I wanted … Continue reading
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Bull Trout Now at Risk in Alberta
Bull trout are one of my favorite fishes, not because they are tremendous battlers, but because they live in some of the most stunning scenery in the Pacific Northwest and the northern Rockies. I’ve fished them from Montana to Washington, … Continue reading
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Lake Pend Oreille Kokanee Bounce Back
I’m not suggesting that everyone throw down their steelhead and trout sticks and head to northern Idaho to fish kokanee salmon, but the news from Lake Pend Oreille—that it’s kokanee salmon population is bouncing back from years of depressed numbers—is … Continue reading
Montana Whitetail Hunting Rocky Mountain Front
Wanted to say Happy Thanksgiving to all of you. Hopefully you’re busy with family and not reading this on Thanksgiving morning. I am truly thankful for all that I have. Some days I wish I had a newer rig, other … Continue reading
Leaf Hell, Missoula, Montana-Style
I take a lot of grief from my friends, usually payback for something I’ve said to them.Some complain about my yard-care practices, which is pretty much to leave my house in Ennis to nature, and to procrastinate when it comes … Continue reading
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fishpond’s Westwater Collection
FishPond rolled out it’s Westwater Collection at the International Fly Tackle Dealer Show in Reno this past August and I decided that I had to have the Westwater Guide Lumbar Pack. Here’s why: Since I wore a Patagonia hiking-specific fanny … Continue reading
Fishing For White Sturgeon in Hell’s Canyon, Idaho
Idaho Power Company biologists have completed the first of a three-year survey of white sturgeon and report a diverse population of healthy fish in the lower Snake River between the utility’s Hells Canyon Dam and Lower Granite Dam, which is … Continue reading