Hell or High Water? Day 4: The Beaverhead
If you’ve made it this far after reading Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3, you have my sympathy. After bidding rood riddance to Three Dollar Bridge,...
Hell or High Water? Day Three: The Madison
This is Part 3, preceded by Part 1 and Part 2 (it’s a sequential thing). Before departing West Yellowstone, the Rangers each handed our cash to Marck as it...
Hell or High Water? Day Two: The Firehole
If you missed Part 1, you may want to read it first. Then again… Typically we arrive in West Yellowstone with plenty of time left...
Guest Posts & Sponsored Content
I’m posting this because I have been receiving a lot of emails from people who offer basically the same thing. Occasionally I reply to their emails,...
Hell or High Water? Day One: The Missouri
So as not to keep you in suspense, I’ll get right to the matter of our annual pilgrimage to the Firehole River: High Water. We...
The High Cost of Low Livin’
I wasn’t going to write anything about this, but then decided I had to, thanks to a really nice piece written by Mike Sepelak over...
The annual pilgrimage approacheth
I’ve written about the Firehole Rangers’ annual pilgrimage to our namesake river so many times that there’s really little left to say, especially given the...
A 5 Year fish, so soon?
The Yakima is a finicky river that rarely gives up it’s bounty of fish over 12 inches, at least in my experiences (and those of...
Fish coddling
Let me preface this by stating that I am all for conservation-minded fishing. I pinch my barbs (unless I’m targeting hatchery fish that are intended...
March of the lion
You know what “they” say about March—it comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. For those that don’t grasp the meaning, it’s...
Didn’t even try to not go fishing
Last year at about this same time, me and the Albacore’s ventured to Forks, WA to do a bit of steelhead fishing. We got rained...
I’ve been AWOL
I just realized the last post on the blog was way back on November 1st, 2016—last year. That could mean one of a few things: I’ve...
Sauk it to me
The Sauk River is one of three major tributaries of the once-fabled steelhead river, the Skagit, in North Central Western Washington. I’ve only fished the...
Stupid Fly Fishing Cars To Avoid
Way back in 2011 I went to great lengths to compile a list of the Top Six Stupidest Fly Fishing Cars. I’m confident that my...
Weather or not to go steelhead fishing
Forecasting the weather is not completely unlike forecasting whether or not one is going to catch a steelhead when one goes steelhead fishing: neither is a certainty....