From the monthly archives:

June 2008

Golden Stone Fly

by Wayne Mumford June 26, 2008

Unless its an obvious hatch, or just a lot of obvious bugs cruising around I usually just have a seat and retie a fly or tippet and almost always the bugs reveal themselves. I will find them climbing on my legs, or just flying down low where I wasn’t noticing them, or I see them [...]

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Fishing the small drainages and lakes

by Wayne Mumford June 26, 2008

With flows in most rivers still pretty high it never hurts to look into the smaller drainages that clear out fast and start slowing down long before the bigger rivers. This Rainbow, at 17 inches, came out of one of Montana’s smaller drainages this last weekend. The fish fell for a #8 BH Gold Hares [...]

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George Carlin checks out

by Wayne Mumford June 23, 2008

One of the best stand ups and commentators on life as we know it, thanks for the fun George.

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Montana Governor puts moratorium on Front range gas leases

by Wayne Mumford June 20, 2008

Governor Brian Schweitzer has put a six-month moratorium on energy leases on state lands along the Rocky Mountain Front. Hats off to the Governor for listening to the people and allowing time to find an alternative to wasting our public lands for the benefit of a few energy companies.
Ben Lamb from the Montana Wildlife Federation [...]

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Montana DNRC backs off Rocky Mountain Front

by Wayne Mumford June 19, 2008

Montana Department of Natural Resources deferred oil and gas leases in Teton county on the 16th, no doubt after being flamed by just about everyone in the country. One lease was in the Blackleaf Wildlife Management Area and two were very close.
I was curious what oil and gas interests were paying for similar leases nearby [...]

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Some stranger could catch our fish…

by Wayne Mumford June 16, 2008

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Being Bad with Bass

by Wayne Mumford June 13, 2008

So after of week of lousy weather and almost no fly fishing opportunities time was running out, I had to do something- fast. So I got out the spin rod and went Largemouth Bass fishing. To be honest I didn’t really expect much, but I got one hell of a surprise. I guess the gods [...]

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Late season snow boosts snow pack

by Wayne Mumford June 12, 2008

The storm that blew through northwest Montana on Tuesday-Wednesday left from a foot to two feet of new snow in the northern ranges of the state boosting them into the 160% of normal range for this time of the year. The forecast is calling for a jump into the 70’s this weekend and into the [...]

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