Critters aren’t concerned with our gangster garb. They just need space to live. We’ll save space for wildlife or lose it.

Someday I may make it to New Zealand or Chile or wherever it is permitted to catch a fish on a fly, but I can be on that close-to-home water, watching a bass crush a popper at dusk, seven days a week

Cleaning up our abandoned fencing seems the least we can do as stewards of the land

I love sipping trout as much as the next guy, but there’s nothing quite as thrilling as a poorly adjusted largemouth that has decided your fly must die

Everyone knows when you adopt a new boat type, your first purchase is never what you need; it takes an upgrade or two to get it right

Peak flows are past, but it’s still high-water season and extra caution is required before launching anywhere in Montana

My father wasn’t the greatest fisherman and didn’t really teach me much about fishing, other than the most important lesson of all: to love it

Part 3: Consummation

In a lifetime of fly fishing, I’ve never devoted as much time to an animal without success, as I have to chasing carp

Elk management has been a troublesome issue since we first started managing elk — initially by eliminating them during the early settlement of the West

It’s counterproductive to teach a crate-trained dog to view their kennel as punishment — but not every rule must be followed, zealously

Wealthy landowners have continued to lock the public out of land the public has a right to access

The disease has spread from domestic fowl to humans who have worked closely with domestic flocks

There are many ways hunters demonstrate we are driven by more than bloodlust

Animal intelligence, or at least our perception of it, played a role in the acceptance of catch-and-release fishing