From the monthly archives:

November 2008

Attaching an Indicator to your Fly Fishing line 101

by Wayne Mumford November 29, 2008

For some people this is basic stuff but I keep getting searched by people wanting to know how to attach an indicator to the leader/tippet of their fly line so, here it is. There are a lot of ways to do it. This seems to be the most common method.

I’m going to use a Thingamabobber [...]

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Yellowstone Club gets another season to go downhill

by Wayne Mumford November 26, 2008

In the latest episode in Montana’s version of “Dynasty”, it looks like members of  the elite Yellowstone Club will get to ski and flutter their wealthy little feathers for at least one more winter.
CrossHarbor Capital Partners, a Boston-based hedge fund,  was given the right to loan the club $20 million while it reorganizes its debt. [...]

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Yellowstone Club bulbs getting dimmer

by Wayne Mumford November 25, 2008

“Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale; to the last I grapple with thee; from hell’s heart I stab at thee; for hate’s sake I spit my last breath at thee. Sink all coffins and all hearses to one common pool! and since neither can be mine, let me then tow to pieces, [...]

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Monster Madison Brown

by Wayne Mumford November 24, 2008

I’m not sure if this has made the rounds, but this is one heck of a Big Brown from the Madison. Here’s the story.
Here’s the fish. What does it eat? Anything it wants.

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Dry Fly Media DVD

by Wayne Mumford November 24, 2008

I received my demo DVD from Jess and the DryFly Media team today. Of the four southwest Montana rivers and the Henry’s Fork in Idaho, I chose the Madison because I never seem to make it that far south these days and I love the country.
The imagery is beautiful and anyone who has been on [...]

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Southwest Montana

by Wayne Mumford November 24, 2008

Friday found us headed down the road on a whirlwind to the Anaconda area for the weekend. With rifles and rods in tow we were cramming in more than an early Thanksgiving dinner with the out of town family. I am fortunate that my in laws understand that keeping us in the house is like [...]

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Caddis for Thanksgiving dinner?

by Wayne Mumford November 19, 2008

November has been mild to say the least, Wednesday we were in the mid 60’s, unfortunately because of the temps, I had to get busy butchering deer before they started their own insect hatch; so sneaking off for some fishing was out. I think it was two years ago at this time we hung a [...]

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PETA and the new “land puppies” campaign

by Wayne Mumford November 18, 2008

After reading about the PETA “sea kittens” ad campaign over at BWTF I actually wanted to puke. So, for nearly making me sick from the effects of human stupidity I decided that I needed to say something for the rest of us that still understand how life on earth works with a new campaign of [...]

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