by Stephen Sautner - Friday, Dec 5th, 2025
They sit in a forgotten drawer in my tying desk, intermingling with odd-sized hooks, old fly boxes, and other ephemera that have eddied into this backwater over time. Some are bright and cartoonish, others stately and serious. All remain unused and will probably end up in the trash someday soon.
by Jock Conyngham - Friday, Sep 5th, 2025
Now that the comment period for the proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule is open (for a minimal three weeks), I’m going to ask readers to do something very uncharacteristic for a semi-retired research ecologist and hardcore angler from Montana—forget all the good points that my friend Chris Hunt made in his recent article on the rule and why anglers should care about it.
by Todd Tanner - Saturday, Aug 16th, 2025
Let’s keep this as simple as possible. There are millions of fly fishers here in the United States. Many of us are passionate anglers who care deeply about our sport. If we want productive fisheries in the future, then we need clean water and robust landscapes. Healthy ecosystems are an absolute prerequisite for healthy fisheries. Unfortunately, America’s waters are currently faced with any number of serious threats, including habitat destruction, invasive species and pollution.
by Chris Hunt - Saturday, Jun 21st, 2025
The best that can be said about the United States’ relationship with its closest allies and its neighbors to the north, with whom America shares the world’s largest unguarded border, might be summed up as such:
We’re in a weird place.
by Chris Hunt - Wednesday, Jun 4th, 2025
It wasn’t one of those windstorms that made the news last summer in central Montana. TV coverage might have included the weatherman on the local Helena ABC affiliate remarking about how “it sure was windy today,” although seemingly minor events can make the news on a slow day. Just this week, a squirrel got zapped in an electrical substation, cutting power to thousands in Helena. But, as I said, it wasn’t a windstorm that made me rush to social media after I got off the Missouri with Craig DeMark just to let the rest of the world know I was safe from the Missouri River Gale of 2024.
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