by admin | Oct 3, 2010 | 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide
Last week my phone buzzed and with that came this photo of my Uncle Dick with a nice 8 point Whitetail from the great state of Missouri. Uncle Dick gets after it and at 75 years young he still loves to hunt to and fish. Well done Richard!
by admin | Sep 30, 2010 | 05. MONTANA FLY FISHING, 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide
……….here in Southwest Montana. Fall is in full swing all around us. With the warmer Indian Summer weather just too stubborn to leave, I decided that my soul needed any early morning drive through the mountains. I took some photos along the way,...
by admin | Sep 29, 2010 | 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide
Each year, sometime in early Fall, several of us local guides take off for a few days of fishing. We only fish stretches of rivers that we rarely float, try to camp the entire time and there is not schedule or pre-made plan. For some reason my idea of floating...
by admin | Sep 15, 2010 | 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide
Hiking is not something I am very found of, unless of course I am hunting or fishing. Walking for the sake of walking just doesn’t make much sense….if this conversation was going on between my wife and I, she would just roll her eyes and change the...
by admin | Sep 12, 2010 | 05. MONTANA FLY FISHING, 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide, Madison River
………….my father and I have been hunting elk almost everyday since the opener. We have seen, heard, but not shot at any elk. We watched one nice bull and 12 cows way up high, about a mile away, late one morning , but when we made our move they...
by admin | Aug 17, 2010 | 05. MONTANA FLY FISHING, 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide, Madison River
I floated from Windy to Mac yesterday and Windy to Story the day before. I am now tired of the Lyons crowd and since I met my clients yesterday a little later, at Lyons, I could not stomack putting in with 20 some odd other fishing guides. If you get there early,...