I have to credit my uncle, Bill Thomas, with giving me the idea to do this post. The reason: he turned me on to The Digital Photography Book by Scott Kelby and he gave it to me last year for Christmas.
I reference the book often Continue reading
Guys Without Dolls
by Troy Letherman
Apparently I’ve got a great ass. Even in waders.
I know this because Chugach has made at least seventeen increasingly lurid comments to that effect over the past four days. Discomfort is settling in, to the degree that I can’t even contemplate the phrase tailing loop.
There have been no fish beyond a single silver salmon caught Continue reading
Whiskey, trout and beer. Your standard winter fishing adventure
Well, I think we had a high of 32 degrees yesterday, but that was in town, in Ennis. Below Ennis Lake in the Beartrap Canyon, where the sun didn’t make it above the surrounding mountains until after noon and where the wind was blowing 20 miles an hour, it may have hit 20 degrees at best.
But, there was a goal Continue reading
Big rainbows, greedy grayling and an outfitter who wants out of camp. Must be fall in Alaska.
By the end of Alaska’s sport fishing season outfitters and guides are at the end of their respective ropes and any deviation might set them off. They can smell the end of the season and, for some, it smells like drugs and sex, cold beers and bonefish … and the tops of their ghostly white feet burning on the equator.
You really can’t blame Continue reading
A great look at family life in Alaska
I’ve had a little Sarah Palin thing going on lately. I never was knocked off my feet by her looks although the more I look at her the more I’m impressed; but I hate her voice; and I think she’s too proud of herself. But, here comes this miniseries called Sarah Palin’s Alaska and I am an Alaska freak. So I order the first episode off iTunes.
I had spoken to my sister earlier in the day, said, “What Continue reading
The Ultimate Spey Head Set
Spey rods and spey lines are one of the fastest growing segments in fly fishing and there’s good reason for that—fishing spey revitalizes longtime single-hand anglers and it’s just downright fun.
In fact, trying to master a whole new skill-set, including dozens of casts Continue reading
This hip pack went the distance.
Just sold the big GMC and didn’t really want to do it. In fact I was surprised to find that I actually suffered from seller’s remoarse, which I never thought would happen. My daughter, Tate, also was sad and she walked up to the truck before it was driven away and gave it a big hug. She said, “I don’t want you to sell it.” That’s when I had to explain that a truck is nothing more than a material item, not a family member, not a friend, not a Continue reading
Gear up for cold weather with BUFF gloves and headwear
I was hunting ducks in Montana’s Madison Valley one year, part of a promotion for two brands, Filson and Sage. Got a bunch of free loot and those companies sent in photographers and film crews to document our demolition of trout and ducks in Big Sky Country. Only problem? The temperature dropped like a rock and we ended up Continue reading
Long-lived pattern that still gets ’em.
I understand why so many of us are always trying to create the next greatest fly pattern—tying flies is a lot of fun and the possibility of creating something that fools fish and allows us to catch more than the next guy is a real drive.
Along the way to invention, however, Continue reading
Dirty Deeds sold right here.
EDITOR’S NOTE: If you ask my mother, I tried to wreck her life between the end of grade school and when I graduated from high school, mostly because I cranked the AC/DC morning, noon and night.
Still, in a decision that I admire today, she Continue reading