Saturday is a religious holiday in Minnesota: the Walleye fishing opener. Got your fishing license yet? Yup, me too, with a trout stamp. While Minnesota is best known for it’s 10,000 lakes “Up North”, Southwest Minnesota has a fair amount of ponds, too. The Windom DNR office is responsible for my part of that prairie, […]
A Montana Song
I’m feeling like a Montana song Kanes River, Graham Lindsey A story wrapped in an enigma Presented as a warm, soulful poem. I’m feeling like a Big Sky storm Blizzard, tornado, thunder, rain Battleships of air Rolling across the prairie. I’m feeling like a high Trout stream Gallatin, Madison, Jefferson, Missouri Never the same twice […]
Trout Go To School
The worst day fishing is better than the best day working… If anybody were to host experts on coldwater fisheries, it would be Montana State University at Bozeman. I lived a couple blocks from campus when I worked for Gallatin County. The Yellowstone River to the east, the Madison River to the west, and the […]
Fat Tire in TROUT
Life is too short to drink bad beer. New Belgium Brewing is located within sight of the Cache la Poudre River in beautiful Old Town Fort Collins, Colorado. Thanks to New Belgium for your support of Trout Unlimited in this their 50th year. This ad originally appeared in the Fall 2009 edition of TROUT, the […]
Trout Unlimited 50th Anniversery
Every River Has It’s Own Story. Trout Unlimited—known affectionately as TU—turns 50 years old this year. Founded by a group of outdoorsmen and conservationists in Michigan, the organization is a pre-eminent voice for coldwater fish, fisheries and habitat. TU is not just a flyfishing sportsman’s club. The orgnization works to conserve, protect and restore streams […]
Fishing Music: The Album, Part II
[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DxqNLeBqFs] I want to say a lot of great things about Fishing Music. In this case, at least, less is more. A project of uber-musicians David Thompson & Ben Winship, it’s got everything—it’s got fly fishing, it’s got acoustic music. What more do you need? I suppose I could say something about how much I enjoyed […]
Bodies moving in water
Stream Trout general fishing season opens in Minnesota 18 April 2009. Until then, we have time to study the maps, tie our flies and dream our boyhood dreams of bodies of moving water…. San Antonio Express – Fly Fishing from Adam Richard Jones on Vimeo. http://tauntedbywaters.wordpress.com/2009/03/23/the-mark-of-a-true-fishing-scribe-bikini-tops/
Bozeman Explosion
#bozexplod thoughts: disaster recovery plans, real-time information gaps, scope can trump scale
A River Runs… Through a Book
Friends don’t let friends see movies before they’ve read the book.
