In case anyone is wondering, this week’s DF52 fish and the Friday Fish Fry have been postponed a bit. My lap very recently had some laparoscopy so I’ll need another day or two before I am back at FF&W. Nothing too serious, just lifted one too many giant steelhead and paid for it with my inguinal [...]

What I would have given to have listened to these fourteen minutes at my own commencement. Steve Jobs at Stanford, 2005

I’ve had the Leadville 100 ultra-marathon mountain bike race on in the background as I work at home today, painting and writing. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, you can find out more here (check the start altitude and the pass elevations. Oh yeah, also check out some of the athletes who have [...]

You see some cool stuff fishing…. Sort of the opposite of this.

Life Cycles OFFICIAL Trailer from Life Cycles on Vimeo. Just watched a promo copy of this DVD. Gorgeous. There is room for this level of excellence in fly fishing.

Over the years, Kelley and I have done more than a few road trips together, and it seems that I get at least one pic of the back of the “Silver Hornet” in some state of disarray on every trip. I think that the disarray has become worse over the years, and at one point [...]

I’ve been watching the radar images (and video streams) today, and am hoping that my fly-fishing friends in the Mid-South and Southeast U.S. are doing okay dealing with what appears to be a tornado outbreak that could possibly rival the historic one of 1974. Some familiar fishing spots are under red or yellow in that [...]

I recently upgraded WordPress (the software that runs this site) and it appears that some settings got changed in the process. If you’ve tried to leave a comment and subsequently been asked to login as a user, you know what I mean. Should be fixed now. I’ll check through the other settings to be sure [...]

Now that’s a storm. Somewhere west of Mt. Vernon, South Dakota with an approaching supercell. Having moved from the Upper Great Lakes region to the Pacific Northwest, I’ve had to adjust my expectations of what the word “storm” actually means. For example, right now, we are experiencing a series of “storms” here in the Portland [...]

Dee-O-Gee is a cool little natural pet (dog and cat) store in downtown Bozeman, Montana. It is run by fly-fishing friends of ours, and the owner’s husband, Josh Allen, has been a part of the Fly Casting Institute for years. They sell the good stuff, and Kel and I always try to pick up goodies [...]

Despite the extra helping of pathetic, one of us was not going in the drift boat….

Kind of off-topic here, but we’ve been talking “social” today, so if you’re into the social scene on the Web (Facebook, Twitter, et al.), one browser you might wish to consider playing with is Flock. I’ve been using it as an adjunct browser for a couple of years and it’s designed specifically for integration with [...]

People often ask if Kel fly fished before we met. The answer is no, but she was a pretty serious (and just pretty) backpacker girl. She wasn’t shy about doing two weeks out, so it comes as no surprise that part of our together life includes some more significant hikes back into various places (fly rods [...]

Just backed up the FF&W database, as well as the main theme, and then hit “upgrade.” The 3.0 version of WordPress is now running here and hopefully everything will continue without a hitch. I’ll have a look through things, but if something is really messed up for anyone, let me know. No water-time for me [...]