Fly Fishing in the Time of Covid-19 Tennessee Williams, in his play Night of the Iguana, broke down life into two levels: the Realistic and the Fantastic. Make no mistake for better or for worse, in 2020 we are living in the realm of the Fantastic. We are extremely lucky and grateful that we escaped the […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing in the Time of Covid-19" »Fly Fishing Predictions in 2020 and Beyond We will have average to above average snowpack providing Montana’s Rivers and Trout a healthy supply of water for 2020. Here is this weeks forecast from a group called Arctic Oscillation and Polar Vortex Forecasts: This week the predicted pattern across North American is troughing/negative pressure/geopotenial height anomalies […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana – NewsLetter 2020" »Fly Fishing Vets Patriotic Stimulator by Son Tao Son Tao is an American story. We met Son when he came to Healing Waters Lodge with a group of Disabled Veterans from Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, LLC. Project Healing Waters is a non-profit organization that uses fly fishing as a rehabilitative tool for injured and disabled service […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing Veterans" »Shape-Shifters Fly Fishing In Montana We spent the holidays bingeing on TV. The world appears to be consumed by vampires, zombies, shape-shifters, warlocks, witches and extraterrestrials. Not bad if you’re describing the political class but as a fly fisherman I seek a soft stream with gentle riffles and quiet rising fish. The following is the […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana" »Generally, April and May, prior to run-off, finds Montana’s rivers low with warming water temperatures. With growing activity and no pressure on the rivers, nymph and streamer fishing excels, with occasional dry fly action on the top. The month of June brings out the heavy Stone Flies on the Big Hole and the Madison. Big flies appear after the waters […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana" »Small streams, Fall Fishing and Randolph Scott It is cool this morning, more September than August. I am watching the 1958 movie, Buchanan Rides Alone sta rring Randolph Scott, where the bad guys will all eat a .44 before the movie ends. My idea of summer time bliss: a Randolph Scott move in the morning and hopper fishing […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana" »Fishing Over the Immortal Nakedness of Montana “The sea, autumn mildness, islands bathed in light, fine rain spreading a diaphanous veil over the immortal nakedness of Greece. Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean Sea.” A passage from the novel, Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis. […]
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