by admin | Nov 14, 2010 | 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide
48 Grizzlies have been killed thus far this season by human causes in Greater Yellowstone. Forty-eight. These human causes are defined as: car collisions, accidental shootings and management removal actions. Locals and tourists alike are to blame. Do you drive...
by admin | Nov 11, 2010 | 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide
Don’t get me wrong, I love guiding and the career in fly fishing which has developed for me over the past 15 years, but when the season ends, it feels oh so good. There is still tons of paperwork to be finished, and bookings for next year are rolling...
by admin | Oct 26, 2010 | 05. MONTANA FLY FISHING, 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide, Madison River
Waking up this morning to a frozen earth and barely a trace of snow, I decided to bag elk hunting and head for the rivers in YNP. The reports from yesterday were: “best day in four or five years”, “epic streamer fishing”, “stupid cold...
by admin | Oct 25, 2010 | 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide
As some of you have pointed out, we had an Earthquake yesterday south of YNP. We did not feel it, but I am sure someone at Old Faithful might have. A 4.4 earthquake, NE of Jackson, near Lower Slide Lake, sent earth and rock sliding down the mountain. I have yet to...
by admin | Oct 24, 2010 | 05. MONTANA FLY FISHING, 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide, Madison River
There was supposed to be snow on the ground this morning at my house, which would have made for excellent elk hunting around the mountains of Hebgen Lake. Instead we were greated with rain and a very wet woods. While it was much quiter underfoot today, the were no...
by admin | Oct 8, 2010 | 05. MONTANA FLY FISHING, 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide, Madison River
After getting hammered by the pouring rain while playing nine holes this afternoon over in Island Park, we headed into YNP to swing flies…..streamers. This brown above smashed my wife’s fly, luckily, she was fishing 10 lb Maxima….it had...
