Just typing the words “coming fall” goes a long way toward easing my weariness

There’s a theory many of us male fly fishing zealots repeat as if it were gospel: Teaching your wife to fly fish is more likely to result in divorce than a lifelong partner on the water. I suppose this goes equally for the less common instance of a female fly fisher teaching her husband to […]

I associate fires and smoke with summer, though more specifically, summer that’s almost over.

Conservationists in Montana need to work together on access issues

Sometimes parenting isn’t complicated stuff

I’m a Hemingway fan, but I’m not oblivious to his blind spots

Smoking is a good way to treat a trout that’s headed for the dinner table

July 12 turned out to be a good day for a run

I’ve often wondered why I see so many birds of prey dead along the road

The ban makes sense, though it’s silly to think it will fix the problem

The 10th percentile in June means most rivers will be nearly bone dry in August

Better to be late for fishing than not to fish at all

The bird life at Rogers never fails to entertain

If you want to fight for access, the Public Land/Water Association is a good place to start

There is a limit to how much we can constrain a river before we’ve changed it into something else