June 2008

NOAA goes fishing

by Wayne Mumford June 11, 2008

NOAA wants to sign up all salt water fisherman in a new fishing registry. “The national registry of saltwater anglers is the key to closing a major gap in information on recreational fishing”. NOAA’s fisheries service, which has been conducting surveys for 28 years apparently still has not gathered enough data to figure out what [...]

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Current Montana Precipitation, June 11, 2008

by Wayne Mumford June 11, 2008

MONTANA SNOTEL Year-to-Date Precipitation Update Graph As of WEDNESDAY: JUNE 11 , 2008 Basin Year-to-Date Precipitation Percent of Average KOOTENAI RIVER BASIN 106% FLATHEAD RIVER BASIN 104% UPPER CLARK FORK RIVER BASIN 101% BITTERROOT RIVER BASIN 108% LOWER CLARK FORK RIVER BASIN 111% JEFFERSON RIVER BASIN 106% MADISON RIVER BASIN 112% GALLATIN RIVER BASIN 112% [...]

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Homemade Foam Indicators

by Wayne Mumford June 10, 2008

Borrowing from Trout Predator’s Yarn indicator tutorial I made some foam indicators using the same techniques for the most part, with my own tweaks for a couple things. 1) Starting with some sheet foam, O rings, and scissors… 2) Cut some foam strips about 1/8 inch wide and 3 inchs long. 3)Using scissors or some [...]

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Imagine the horror…

by Wayne Mumford June 10, 2008

of waking up on your vacation in June and seeing this. Imagine that its supposed to last for most of your week off. Welcome to my nightmare. I’m sure the tourists think its a novelty (except the guy thats two days out in Yellowstone or a day in on the Smith) but personally, I think [...]

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New life for a “seasoned” fisherman’s eyes

by Wayne Mumford June 8, 2008

About five years ago my near vision started heading out, a harbinger of things to come. I really can’t complain because some people start out that way. Anyway, a couple years ago I started having problems tying on small flies in low light. I was pretty easy to find sometimes in the twilight, muttering and [...]

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Gas and Oil back on the Rocky Mountain Front

by Wayne Mumford June 7, 2008

Some beasts never die, they just lie around long enough to smell like it and eventually you end up downwind of one. So it goes with oil and gas interests along Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front. After stemming their last attack a couple years ago the beast is back trying to creep through the cracks by [...]

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The Missouri “cleanse” continues…

by Wayne Mumford June 5, 2008

A quick visit over to the Trout Shop (Craig, Montana) and we find that the river is still getting flushed and that is likely to continue for the near future. Boats are recommended and wading is definitely not. Most of the fishing action is sub-surface. It continues to be cool, showery and probably snowing in [...]

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Western Montana conditions

by Wayne Mumford June 4, 2008

If you like cream in your coffee then you have a pretty good idea what the color of the rivers are now. Pump it out the end of a giant firehose and you get an idea what flows are like. Even the tailwaters are cranking. The weather has basically consisted of rain storms that vary [...]

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