May 18 Late Lonely PlaceAfter a heap of errands including replenishing South Fork Lodge with my art (I will be one of their featured artists this summer) and a stop in Idaho Falls to repair a leaky window in my Explorer, I was off to the Blackfoot Reservoir for the Fin Chasers Classic Carp Tournament … Read more
Blogs will come and they will be good in the next two weeks. It’s just a matter of being around internet. In about an hour I’m leaving to Blackfoot Reservoir for the “Fin Chasers Classic”, a fund raising fly fishing for carp tournament that takes place on Friday and Saturday. Just like last year, my … Read more
The first ever Five Day Fly Fishing School of South Fork Lodge has come to an end. The action packed week was a great success and our group of anglers who once relied on their fly fishing guides for everything can now pursue fish with a fly rod on their own. Congrats to them all … Read more
I’m sitting here in my cabin on the banks of a completely blown out South Fork River in Idaho. We had three days of rain and the warm temps of late spring have finally arrived. Warm enough that the snow is melting at mock speed and therefore raising water levels on every river, creek, irrigation … Read more
May 3 & 4Last week I got an email from friend Tate Jarry of Live Water Properties, a company that specializes in finding and selling fly fishing and hunting properties. He said they had an incredible ranch for sale located in Springfield, Idaho. The ranch is teaming with spectacular hunting and fishing. There’s ducks, geese, … Read more
April 30 – May 1Busy, busy, busy as always. Granny and I made a spontaneous decision to head up to Yellowstone yesterday afternoon to do our annual early season trip to check out the wildlife before the hoards of people show up. It’s one of our favorite jaunts of the year even though we don’t … Read more
April 29Last night was a big night in Idaho Falls, Idaho. I was the guest speaker at Jimmy Gabettas’s All Seasons Angler Fly Shop. It was the businesses 25th year anniversary and Simms was a sponsor for the event providing raffle items, clinics and food and drink. Well known fly tier and author Kelly Galloup … Read more
April 20 Madagascar – Day 21 It was a grunt to put it lightly. First was our rainy pirogue ride from Isle Aux Nattes to Isle Saint Marie (15 Minutes). Then a taxi ride to the airport (10 minutes). We were soaked. Then we flew to Antananarivo (1 hour). We stayed overnight there (15 hours). … Read more
April 19 Madagascar – Day 20 Madagascar Air has been unimpressive so far this trip. I won’t knock them too bad because they run typical to several other remote region airlines we’ve flown throughout the world. That is, the planes are usually a little rough like our first flight where the air blowers were broken. … Read more
April 18 Madagascar – Day 19 Being at La Petite Traversee of Isle Aux Nattes is about as far from Victor, Idaho as one can get and today is the dreaded day Granny and I head back. Days like today are when we all wish we could tap our flip flops, close our eyes and … Read more
April 17 Madagascar – Day 18 The South African girls let out a loud scream last night just as we all settled to our rooms. They had a gigantic spider in their room. You may remember, I wrote of one we had in our room in Tanzania last November. I even posted a picture for … Read more
April 16 Madagascar – Day 17 Granny thought we had another rat in our room last night (We had one last week – forgot to mention that). She awoke me to some scratching noise. I recognized the sound immediately. It was a crab. And I don’t mean some small ocean crab; it was a monster … Read more