First Ever Instagram Live Tonight at 6 PM MST

I love speaking before a crowd.  Most of you have seen me give one of my many presentations at the Fly Fishing Shows or at your local Fly Fishing Club.  But these Covid-19 “do it at home through your computer” presentations that require savvy technological skills – I’m not so comfortable with them yet.   … Read more

A Great Fishing Week in MT comes to an End

It was a great visit up to our friends Dave and Tammy and Blackburn’s Kootenai Angler.  I can’t believe it took me years to make the trip up to fish with Dave.  But, for me lately my fishing has been 2 hours from home in the car or flying somewhere far away rather than a … Read more

Last Day Fly Fishing the Kootenai River

Its our last day here at Dave Blackburn’s Kootenai Angler.  Its been a true blast hanging with Dave and his wife Tammy.  Dave had a long list of things we had to do while here and we’ve done many.  But until this morning we had not yet experienced Dave’s homemade buckwheat huckleberry pancakes.  Well, check … Read more

Granny’s First Fish in a Very Long Time!

It hasn’t been a full year since Granny caught her last fish but dang close.  You might recall on May 16, 2019 Granny had a fantastic day fishing in Baja.  That night, she fell off the top of a 7 foot high fence and landed directly on her right shoulder.  Long story short, she wrecked … Read more

A Giant from the Kootenai River

It was classic spring morning here on the banks of the Kootenai River in Libby, Montana.  There was a steady drizzle making it hard to get up from bed.  I managed however because I had a blog to write.  Granny and I are settled in a cozy cabin here at our buddy Dave Blackburn’s Kootenai … Read more

David Blackburn’s Kootenai Angler Montana

It was a wild few days at home this week.  The WorldCast Anglers online presentation I gave last week generated a ton of Cliff Fly Box art orders.  Since Saturday afternoon I did 25 of them!  Toss in my online Yellow Dog presentation, the usual projects like the blog, updates in social media and general … Read more

How to Organize your Flies

I’m not a video guy.  I only shoot still photos.  But with all this weird stuff going on, some of my sponsors have been asking me to do Online stuff including some homemade video.  Yesterday I did a 14 minute tutorial about how I organize my flies for Yellow Dog.  It aired live on Face … Read more

A Busy Week on the Home Front

Word on the street is that the world is bored to death while stuck in lockdown.  I hear that the internet is slow with all the folks on it all day and that Netflix and Hulu and all the other TV type things are rolling in the dough entertaining people that have nothing to do.  … Read more

First Step into Our Rapidly Changing World

Get ready for my first ever Online Presentation – “Trout Bumming the World”.  Wednesday April 8 at 6 PM MST.  Click here for details.   No doubt the COVID-19 will change our world forever.  In these early stages as I watch the snow continue to fall we don’t know what to expect.  Social distancing and … Read more