• The Steelhead With A Thousand Faces

    Maybe if I take five more steps, throw one more mend, skate one more fly, a hero will appear, armored in chrome, and dance to the music of my singing reel.

  • The Birth of A Fishing Town

    Calf deep now in the cold river, Trent’s completed his prelude of silky false casts and is ready to start the show in earnest.

  • In The End, Style Might Be All We Have

    Over the course of 6 trips, in and out, and nearly 40 miles, I question whether or not it’s worth it.

  • Banded

    Folding neatly the greenhead splashed soundly onto the water. The old lady made quick work of the retrieve.

While most folks barely noticed, we stopped publishing on STS this summer. A few have asked what happened to us. We should have said something sooner.

Summer hit hard this year. Before I knew what happened we were BBQ’ing, wearing flip flops, and drinking cold beers in the yard while watching the sun set over the mountains. I look forward to summer because it means fall is getting closer. I don’t like hot weather. But June is my favorite month of the  season. On, Read More

You don’t need big water for big teeth or big adventure.

Post holing up to my thighs I could tell by the perfect grains of snow surrounding each footprint I was gaining ground on a small group. Partway down the ridge they changed course and headed off route, down a steep gully. I followed in hot pursuit.

The gateway drug of the sporting life.

A bloated, dead cow bobbed by, accentuating that the river meant business. The river had begun its annual cleansing ritual.

“Water is emotional,” says Trout Unlimited staffer Hillary Walrath, so never forget that river work is people work.

Watch the video and wait for the “Pop”.

Ever wonder what it’s like to crawl into a lion den… face first? This week something a little different, an installment from Matt’s weekly WyoFile series, “Wyoming Know How.”

I’m a mediocre to slightly above average angler who’s typically more interested in the places I’m in and the people I share them with than the fish count.