northern pike

A Backyard in Nowhere- A Fly Fishing Western

by Wayne Mumford October 13, 2011

I was rambling around doing some reading last night and stumbled onto the trailer for a new fly fishing film, “A Backyard in Nowhere” on Jay Zimmerman’s Colorado Fly Fishing Reports blog. Now I don’t consider myself a film critic, I have a fairly simple rating system; it’s great, good, ok, bad, or just plain [...]

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Warm Water Video- Carp, Pike and Smallies

by Wayne Mumford December 12, 2010

Woke up to rain this morning after it had snowed a couple inches over night. True slop! I’m thinking that this really sets up some hairy avalanche conditions for later on. Not that I’m going to tempting any avalanche zones personally. Anyway, I got out early to hit the stores before the hordes swarmed dangerous [...]

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Top Water Frenzy or, Where have you been lately?

by Wayne Mumford August 10, 2010

It’s no mystery,  it happens to all serious fishing folk this time of year; they go fishing. When you are locked up in hard water and crummy weather for most of the year it’s hard to resist the urge to do nothing but fish 24/7 when the weather finally favors your favorite piscatorial pursuits. So [...]

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Top Water Pike

by Wayne Mumford August 2, 2010

I guess I’m going to have to consider an epoxy coat or a kevlar vest for my top water foam frog patterns. This one lasted about 20 minutes last night, which equated to 3 landed fish and a half dozen attacks. Yes, the top water bite was on. Flipping hysterical fishing. As soon as the [...]

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Foam Topwater Bass Bugs

by Wayne Mumford July 18, 2010

I’m staggering to the finish of ten day absence from the US workforce, vacation in other words. One can never be to prepared for vacation, blown boat trailer tires, boat trailer wiring meltdowns, truck front ends falling apart and such. I’m trying to figure out what nasty thing I did to be visited the the [...]

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Man caught by giant pike

by Wayne Mumford May 1, 2010

Last week a “newb” fly fisherman caught a 47-inch, 29.7 pound pike out of Smith Lake near Kalispell; just a few minutes from our place. A lake that we actually fish quite a bit because it’s handy. Actually a LOT of locals fish this lake and for the last 4-5 years it has yielded nothing [...]

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Northern Pike Love

by Wayne Mumford March 24, 2010

A few days back local outdoor writer Bill Wire wrote an article denouncing the Northern Pike in Montana waters as the scourge of the trout world. While I unfortunately did not have the time to personally heap scorn and contempt upon his attempt to vilify Mr. Apex Predator numero uno, Bill Schneider took up the [...]

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The Montana weather thing

by Wayne Mumford January 7, 2010
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Not even a week ago I was sniveling about the balmy conditions. Mud, slush and slop. Well, it took about 24 hours starting Monday to go from 45°F to 0° by Tuesday am and to continue its decent to an arctic -17° last night. Right before going over the temperture cliff we got a pretty [...]

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