Inventing Montana: Dispatches from the Madison Valley by Ted Leeson
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Ted Leeson has been one of my favorite authors since his first book in 1994, The Habit of Rivers. That book contained essays concerning his...
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Inventing Montana: Dispatches from the Madison Valley by Ted Leeson
A handful of artists are featured in this post as I try to get caught up. Fly fishing art has some great artists plying their skills. In addition, I find many of them keep some great blogs where you can get a behind-the-scenes look at an artist at work.
First up is Jared Miller from Streamside Illustrations. He has some fish illustrations that he says he was...
Yessiree, Janicke Nordgreen is back with bells on! Who, you might ask (and rightfully so), is Ms. Nordgreen? She’s the infamous Norwegian doctoral student from the Norwegian School of Veterinary Science (NSVS) who brought us the infamous morphine and goldfish study last year resulting in this title: “Fish May Actually Feel Pain And React To It Much Like Humans Do.” (My blog post on...
Granny (Bob Granstrom) runs a blog called Flydaho, dedicated to fly fishing Idaho (although this story takes place in Oregon, we’ll forgive him). His health has slowed him down this past year, but he’s come roaring back to start off this new year with a great piece of writing. He tells of an adventure titled “Super Bow” with his faithful dog Bozo back in June of 1964 (most of us...
I saw this over at Mike’s blog: Of Dry Flies and Fat Tires (fly fishing and mountain biking the west blog—go check out his site).
Nick Clement of Reel Escape Films has a nice trailer (4:33) of his In the Land of the Cutthroats (this is the link to the HD version on Vimeo).
This is what fly fishing for cutties is all about: the scenery and the fish. If this doesn’t get...
When early Mormon pioneers first arrived in the arid west in 1847, they knew that to tame the land without reliable rainfall they needed to tap what little water flowed. Within a few years of their arrival, canals and ditches stretched across the land, diverting water from creeks, rivers and springs. This access to more water brought an increase in settlers and a proportional...
The federal government owns more than 57% of the state of Utah. The USDA, through the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA) of 1976 (previously through the Taylor Grazing Act of 1934), manages the amount of grazing that is allowed on that land, called allotments. The purpose of the FLPMA is:
To establish public land policy; to establish guidelines for its...
Happy New Year everyone!! So I got out on the Puget Sound yesterday for my first outing of 2010, to test out a new marabou prawn imitation that I came up with. It was an incoming tide, so I headed to a local estuary that has been fishing well lately. Upon arriving at the beach the wind was howling straight on shore, but that wasn't going to stop me so I went for it anyways. As it turned...
Thom Glace is a painter living in central Pennsylvania. He works in watercolors. Check out Thom’s latest painting, a California Golden Trout. He has a nice series of trout and bass.as well as some other fish that may be of interest to fly fishers. Look at the buttons on the left of his home page to access them. He does have a painting of a brown trout with a double humpy fly at the...
The Dead Drift does indeed talk about that most famous of all drifts—the one in which the artificial dry fly stays perfectly still on the water—the dead drift. But that’s not all.
Dean Bell, one of New Zealand’s premiere guides, is filmed fishing Fiordland of New Zealand’s South Island. If you aren’t familiar with this part of the world, it is truly...
