60 Years A Flyfisher
To Be or Not To Be......Guided
Posted on January 19 2021
I was in my mid forties when I first hired a guide. I was camping in Rocky Mountain National Park, just outside the town of Estes Park. Recently in the Park, the Green Back Trout, declared extinct in the 1930s, had been rediscovered and their recovery in the...
Mahogany Duns and Grizzly
Posted on November 13 2020
I visited Yellowstone for the first time in July or August in 1989. I'm sure of the year because I know it was the year after Yellowstone burned. Actually Yellowstone burns to some degree every year. The Park averages between 10 and 20 fires a year. In 1988 over...
The Orbeton
Posted on June 11 2020
My buddy Dennis and I planned on fishing up a two mile stretch of the Orbeton River, and then camp at the river's confluence with Perham Stream. We had fished this stretch many times, but never all at once and never with the camping. We had...
Working At The Shop(Part One)
Posted on April 21 2020
I walked into a fly shop for the first time about 60 years or so ago. It wasn't a fly shop so much, as a hardware store that had a pretty good selection of flies tied by a few locals. A little corner of the store displayed a selection...
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