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Extra heat for your Little Chief Smoker

by Wayne Mumford February 13, 2012

You know you’re a redneck when?  You use an old garbage can to cover your smoker for extra heat. I was talking smokers with an acquaintance the other day and was complaining that my Little Chief Smoker doesn’t generate enough heat in the winter to do much more than burn the chips and he told [...]

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Daddys Beer| River use violations on the Bighole, Beaverhead | Drones in your neighborhood?

by Wayne Mumford February 11, 2012

Near and dear to most of our hearts is our favorite liquid refreshments. I love beer, especially when the weathers hot and that’s not a long season in Montana. Fortunate for me I can only drink a small fraction of what I drank in my younger days before I have some kind of gastrointestinal revolt. [...]

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Another look at channeling on the Bitteroot

by Wayne Mumford February 9, 2012

False Casts and Flat Tires added more images yesterday on the story they broke a few days back on some man-made channeling work that was diverting water to the head gate of the infamous Mitchell slough. Predictably, a fairly big uproar has ensued and it has become an over night “who done it”, probably more [...]

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Firecracker Salmon, some heat for fish foodies

by Wayne Mumford February 6, 2012

All the other fly fishing blogs occasionally throw down some great looking recipes so I thought I’d take a stab at it too. I’m not a real fish foodie, but when it comes to brook trout or salmon (for us it’s usually kokanee) I get a little more interested. My wife found this recipe and [...]

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310 Permits, Mitchell slough headgates, muddy water

by Wayne Mumford February 3, 2012

Lucky from Button Valley Bugle astutely chimed in on the recent goings-on down the Bitteroot today. This is the goods folks, the article he references from the Missoulian is an absolute must read. Thanks so much Lucky! The Bitterroot Conservation District began issuing 310 permits to the landowners on Mitchell Slough for various work since [...]

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More on channel manipulation on the Bitteroot

by Wayne Mumford February 2, 2012

I did a little poking around today to see what I could dig up on the apparent river bed alterations on the Bitteroot river at Mitchell Slough. I fired off a couple emails and made a call to the Bitteroot Conservation District to see what permits existed in the area- no one was home. Hopefully [...]

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Bitteroot River gets a man made channel change?

by Wayne Mumford February 1, 2012

I’m kinda in the tail wind on this story but it’s important that as many river folks hear about it as possible, if even one reader hasn’t heard it- then I haven’t been remiss. A few days back False Casts and Flat Tires put up a post on some pretty dramatic looking stream alterations made [...]

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First Aid Kit for FM weary ears

by Wayne Mumford January 23, 2012

I was vaguely listening to the radio on my way to town this morning and something came across the airwaves that sounded like real music. I thought I was hearing something new from one of my all-time favorites, Emmylou Harris. Not coincidentally as I listened the song title was “Emmylou”. I got home and did [...]

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