February 2009

Jay Morr Photography

by Wayne Mumford February 18, 2009

I love to look at what other photographers are doing. I found Jason Morrison’s (JayMorrPhotography) over at Swittersb awhile back and have been dropping in every so often to see what he’s been doing. Needless to say, he’s been busy. Check out the Eagle shots while you’re getting an eye load of everything else. Really [...]

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Photographing flies

by Wayne Mumford February 17, 2009

Learning to tie better flies and photograph them is one of my ongoing projects. Fortunately, there is a growing body of resources. From Midcurrent: Techniques and Gear for Photographing Flies Some good tutorials and nice fly photographs from Neal Osborn’s Fly Art Studio.

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More bills for Montana water lovers

by Wayne Mumford February 16, 2009

This week we have two legislative bills of interest to sportsmen/women. First we have the ongoing warm water hatchery issue at Fort Peck. The demise of the four Walleye bills from Don Steinbesser, Sydney has apparently motivated Senator Keith Bales of Otter, to put new paint on the same ol’ fence so to speak. Bales [...]

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Laible takes Montana SB 314 off the table

by Wayne Mumford February 16, 2009

“It began as a very innocent request from a constituent who thought we needed to change things a little bit… “They provided me with some language that goes way beyond clearing some issues with stream access and ends up taking away the rights of other constituents to access the state’s waterways”… Those words spoken by [...]

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Montana Snowpack- February,14,2009

by Wayne Mumford February 14, 2009

Things were starting out pretty good but we really haven’t had a lot of precipitation since the first of the year. While the Trout Underground is mourning over going another round with the snow blower from hell we are watching our snow condense into glacial ice. No need to start worrying just yet. Even though [...]

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Button Valley News

by Wayne Mumford February 12, 2009

From News and Opinion from Button Valley. Montana : You can thank or chastise Lucky at Button Valley for stirring me up over some of the current bills being proposed in the Montana legislature. Lots of interesting nuggets being served up there but I am still trying to figure out WTH Button Valley is exactly. [...]

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Silas Goodrich’s fishing skills debunked?

by Wayne Mumford February 11, 2009

In case you missed it, all of a sudden, Walleye are a hot topic in Montana. Apparently, there aren’t enough around already so there is a big push to get more funding for the Fort Peck Hatchery (a warm water fish hatchery) to produce more, which is problematic because it’s not considered a native species [...]

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More on Montana SB314

by Wayne Mumford February 10, 2009

Missoula homeboy does good! I fired off a round of emails today to members of Montana Natural Resource Committee urging them to fire bomb SB314. Sen. Dave Wanzenried (D) SD 49 (Missoula) was quick to reply with the following: Based on my reading of SB 314 and the input I have received to date, which [...]

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