Dawn came early. But for me, when I’m on Quake Lake, it doesn’t come soon enough. While most trout fishing in the Yellowstone Country doesn’t start till things warm up, Quake Lake has rising fish very early in the morning. As usual, I had my coffee brewed around 6 AM and soon we were in … Read more
I hadn’t planned on fishing this week until Saturday. Saturday I have a friend from South Africa arrive and we are going hard for four days. But then my business partner Mark Kuhn, emailed, “You need to meet me at Quake Lake”. Mark was right. We’ve been planning to meet at Quake for couple … Read more
July 30 – August 1, 2018 July 30, 2018 It hits Granny and I equally hard when August 1st comes around. Summer seems nearly over. Its dark earlier. Coffee mornings on the back porch require a fleece again. It’s scary how fast summer, years and life is going by. That’s why we felt that despite … Read more
August 8-9, 2010 It isn’t easy rolling out of the sleeping bag when its 39 degrees in August. Yet that’s the exact temperature it was yesterday morning when Derek and I got up at 6 am. Why get out of bed at 6 am for trout fishing? Because Hebgen Lake often produces the best Callibaetis … Read more
When the geese flew over my house early Friday morning I was a bit suspicious. They were in formation as if it were October – about fifteen of them honking away. But it’s only August I thought to myself. It’s just a fluke. It’s the middle of summer. Well, Derek and I froze our butts … Read more