Category Archives: US & Canada
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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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 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
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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OWAA Hires Schoonen to Communications Post
A little local love to throw out here. OWAA is a great organization and a solid place for people getting into outdoors writing to meet brethren and gain valuable contacts. Whether you live in Missoula or elsewhere, and you want … Continue reading
Posted in Industry, Montana, Northern Rockies
Tagged Outdoor Writers Association of America
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Alaska’s Arctic Char and Peanut Butter
My hands were frigid in the icy Alaskan river, and things weren’t looking good for this finned, anadramous, Arctic char. Several minutes ago, swinging a 7-weight spey rod, heavy tip, and weighted flash fly, I dredged up the chrome toad, … Continue reading
Posted in Absinthe Lounge, Alaska, Culture, Northwest, Spey
Tagged Fly fishing Alaska's Arctic char, Fly fishing Artic Char, Kotzebue Alaska
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Beating Summer’s Fly Fishing Doldrums on the Beaverhead
August isn’t always the best month for fly fishing in the northern Rockies and recent stream closures around the state, including full restrictions on some portions of the Big Hole River, support that notion. However, if you just put a rod … Continue reading