Sure its a couple days late but I didn’t come across it until last night:
Pipeliner – the website for the ultimate urban fly flicker
“It was concocted by MidCurrent contributors who think that once in a while it’s good to laugh [read more]

Well, things didn’t go a ton better over the second half.  Attempts at mountain biking and fishing were mostly stymied by:

a near white out snow storm
45 MPH+ (72 KPH+) winds
water with 2″ or less visibility
rapidly rising water
A combination of 2 [read more]

Weather encountered:

snow
rain
blistering prairie sun
wind (goes without saying)
-4° C (25° F)
25° C (77° F)

Tactics tried

All Manner of nymphs

upstream
czech style
swung

streamers

dead drift
swung
cross current

clam flies, crayfish, woolly buggers, soft hackles, midges
night crawlers drifted and still fished

total fish count = 0
Highlights

Saw:

a 10lb class mirror carp
a [read more]

Finally, kicked the skunk.  I’ve been heading out trying to scratch the first fish of the year and first fish for my 6 wt Switch that I built recently.
Many people have experienced the difficulty in getting into the swing of [read more]

Hit the Splatte yesterday.  The locals fired up the irrigation ditches and the water dropped to next to nothing.
Tried Czech nymphing and skagit swinging to no success.  None of the carp I saw were actively feeding, just holding.  Things learned:

Carp [read more]

Well got out fishing for a couple hours yesterday…
The pool near town was low… checked out a hole that held carp last fall, but it wasn’t really there… in fact it was so full of sand from the recent flooding [read more]

The river conditions were not very good, but they were workable and the weather was really nice yesterday.
No fish to show for my efforts – whiffed on one and that was all.  Did, however, get to try out my new [read more]

Well the weekend was mostly a bust for ducks.  Hopefully during the late season I won’t have to deal with too many idiots in the marsh…
Chased Grayling in the high country for a couple hours on Saturday.  The warm weather [read more]

Got out for about an hour after making dinner last night (the first time I’ve made Ethiopian food – turned out great!) to check out the wingdams I had scouted previously.
This river is odd to me.  Most is not suitable habitat [read more]

Being in a new town this year, one of my goals was to find some local hunting and fishing spots.  Success has been sporadic but that’s the nature of the beast.  Another goal was to make the fullest use of [read more]