Emerger It is spring and I have a song in my heart and it is not, “A Bridge Over Troubled Water”. We are honored and grateful to be a finalist for the Orvis 2019 Fly Fishing Lodge of the Yearaward. I am thinking of Dean Martin singing, “Ain’t That A Kick in The Head”. Snowpack is good […]
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Flyfishing in Southwest Montana
Women and Rivers On our refrigerator, I have a magnetic plaque with a picture of John Wayne in a cowboy hat from the movie Hondo along with the quote, “A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do.” This implied saving damsels in distress, taking on mountain lions with your bare hands, drinking whiskey neat, […]
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Ethereal Fly Fishing The sales pitch in this newsletter is short and sweet and something we must do to keep our banker smiling and food on the table. Bookings are excellent for our Smith River float trips with a few launch dates still available in May and July. This is a five-day/four night camping trip, […]
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After a month on the road throughout Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia, peddling our Montana fly fishing vacations, Mike returned home safely this week. Being the bold man of action that he is, Mike rests not; and therefore, we invite you to join us at the following events: February 23-24-25, The Fly Fishing Show, Pleasanton, California: […]
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Now as I Was Young and Easy… For the past couple of weeks this poem was rattling around in my head. Youtube has the late actor Richard Burton reading it that brings it alive. What this has to do with fishing is a tough segue. The poem does have something to do with life and fishing for […]
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Fishing Over the Immortal Nakedness of Montana “The sea, autumn mildness, islands bathed in light, fine rain spreading a diaphanous veil over the immortal nakedness of Greece. Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean Sea.” A passage from the novel, Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis. […]
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Spring like days, clouds, layers of warm clothing, abundant sunshine and great fishing. All that and more with Healing Waters Lodge’s quick and easy access to private spring creeks, and rivers such as the Jefferson, Big Hole, Beaverhead, Madison.
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