Black-outs

The last three weekends of my life have been pretty sick. I've been apart of two steelhead trips, one to the Salmon River and another on the Clearwater in Idaho. The fishing was a lot better on the Salmon, but the boozin was better on the Clearwater. Here is the short story from the last three weekends:

Week 1: Went to the Salmon and caught a lot of A - run steelhead. Drank beer, ate good camp food, got drunk, and laughed around the campfire. Attached is a picture of my buddies Andy Simon and Laura Jenkins (notice Laura's fish is bigger than Andy's...she can slay).


Week 2: Went to the Clearwater and caught a couple fish. Ate shitty food (besides Ben's chinese food which I recommend to anyone who is in Kooskia, ID), partied at the one and only Selway bar, celebrated Amanda's birthday (the previous year she got my buddies out of a DUI), watched a guy get arrested for an outstanding meth warrant, buddy got licked by local hooker, another buddy hit on a pregnant chick, and the weekend was topped off by rolling my friend Laura's explorer coming home on I-12...Attached is a pic. of my buddy Rick Matney with a 17 lb. hatchery buck...Pretty solid.



Week 3: Went to the premier of RISE. Drank bud lights, which were followed by vodka tonics till one in the morning at the Mo Club. Next day, celebrated a buddies birthday at the Lumberjack Bar (bar in the middle of the woods 20 miles from Missoula). Drank everything under the sun, but mostly shots of Rumplemintz. A buddy lit him self on fire after a body-shot. Next day, had to go back to the Jack to get a buddies credit card. Preceded to get hammered.



Overall, three weekends of boozing with some good stories...can't wait to see what this weekend brings!

Thermal Streamers

Took this thermal pic. of a streamer I just tied up.  So hot the fish can't leave it alone.

Mo Root - short video from last month

scott's sick sticks

Here's a bold statement for anyone who has found our blog so far.

Scott makes the best fishing fly rods made (as far as graphite mainstream brands goes). I sell a number of different rods at our shop in Great Falls, and I swear nothing compares to dry fly fishing with a G2...they have kick ass spey rods... the new S4 rod is fast for guys that like it quick...and the new S4s Saltwater rods have already received best of show against all the major competitors. Scott is made by guys who fish. Go to a trade show sometime and tell me who you want to buy a rod from after looking at all the booths. Then fish all the rods next to each other. Yeah of course all their competitors are very good...anyone who sells in the 600 dollar and up category had better have some sick sticks to offer...but seriously try these.

Great Falls Flyfishing Film Fest 2010

Great Falls Flyfishing Film Festival in 2010 has a new web-site started...

check out the new site and get involved in this growing festival.

Great Falls Film Fest 2010

...there's gonna be drinks there

fished the clack today

Flew out to Portland for meetings...fished the clack today. The runs we fished were all roached...cept the last one. Got a huge grab, it didn't hang on. 4 casts later caught a rainbow about 16 inches. Stiffler got blanked. Started havin some Modelo Especials and Tecate's on the river about noon...still doing something like that and heading out downtown. Plan is to float the Deschutes above Maupin in the morning...stoked.

RISE

I went to the premire of Confluence's new film RISE last night and would have to say it was pretty sick. Producers Jim Klug and Chris Patterson did a really good job putting together six scenes shot from all over the world (Idaho-Venezuala). The opening scene (my favorite), takes place in the Florida Keys during the Palola worm hatch, where literally hundreds and hundreds of 80+lb tarpon have migrated from all over the coast to one area. The film features such anglers as: Rene Harrop, Rance Rathie, Travis Smith, Capt. Bruce Chard, Ron Sorenson, Mike Lawson, and many more. If you like their first film DRIFT, you will definitely like RISE (I thought it was better). One to add to the collection fo sho.