“Fly fishing surely gives meaning to my life, but not nearly so much as life gives meaning to fly fishing.” ~Peter Kaminsky It is February. The sun hangs in the sky a bit higher and longer; the alternating thaw and freeze is turning the snow to corn. There is a spring like awakening occurring within the river, the trout, and…
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"When I’m fishing and hunting with the right attitude, I reenter the woods and river with a moment-by-moment sense of the glories of creation, of the natural world as a living fabric of existence, so that I’m both young again but also 70,000 years old." —Jim Harrison from Field & Stream, 2003 Thank you Mr. Harrison for your inspirational life…
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"Our life is March weather, savage and serene in one hour." ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson March is often personified by sentimental poets, and for good reason; like life, it is unpredictable. But one thing is certain. At March's end, the Big Wood and South Fork will close for the season. So even if the weather turns savage, then serene, then…
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"When spring came, even the false spring, there were no problems except where to be happiest." ~ Ernest Hemingway We are going to have plenty of water this summer! The average snowpack for the Wood River Basin right now is 106% of average and the forecast for March looks like more snow is on the way. Typically when we have…
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"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade." ~ Charles Dickens This time of year, the temperature can swing 20 to 30 degrees from sun up to sun down. The key to staying comfortable on the water: layering. Since…
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"I will never tire of what fishing gives me. It puts me in touch with another of nature's species, in beautiful surroundings that are old as time. This is where I want to be; that is how I am renewed." ~ Joan Wulff If it is time to renew yourself in a different, beautiful surrounding, then wading expansive saltwater flats…
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