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Bitterfork River Fishing Report 4-11-12 (Audio is Epic!)

Fishing the Bitterroot or the Clark Fork?  Not sure, just call it the Bitterfork.   Dale “DD” Dun doesn’t always make the most sense but he shoots straight!  Here he is, in his own words, letting you know that the Skwala fishing is good right now.  Listen for yourself.  And like ...

Speaking of Woody Debris

  [caption id="attachment_7160" align="alignleft" width="240" caption="Sasquatch Egg"][/caption] I recently found this rock in Southern Oregon that has a wooden “hat”. My best guess is that the “hat” is a piece of root from a Madrone tree that wrapped around the rock eons ago, and then washed downriver and was deposited on a ...

Couple of Things I Learned on a Recent Steelhead Trip

1)      When renting a deflated pontoon boat on a Saturday, always check the bag holding the pontoons before you leave the raft company-they might stick you with the “Happy Meal”, which while highly visible in the event of a helicopter rescue operation, lacks the desired stealth when pursuing winter steelhead ...

A Tutorial in Un-Tying

It’s that time of year again in Montana. The winter blues kick-in and I retreat to my “February Room” to drink alone and yearn for warmer climates and the fish that live there. This state-of-mind is expressed at the fly tying vise and I find that I produce some of ...

Thank You! Jozy Gustafson

I can’t pin-point the exact moment that my little Brittany became gun shy, but I can tell you that it was on her first hunt, shortly after she pointed her first covey of Huns, when she was 10-months old. Filled with the excitement of flushing birds and shotgun blasts, she ...