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blog BY chris_hunt ON October 11 - 0 COMMENTS
Alone in the Dark
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For a closet introvert who can fake the opposite on command, time alone is like being plugged into a battery charger. If only I had a USB port at the back of my neck. Then I wouldn't need to disappear for hours at a time to replenish what the real world drains (on second thought, when that port is [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON October 10 - 0 COMMENTS
Searching
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  By Greg McReynolds, Sportsmen's Conservation Project I slam the door and the world contracts into a space no bigger than a refrigerator box lit by the cold blue light of the radio's LCD screen. The numbers on the dash say 432 miles to empty. I'll do that and more before day breaks over the [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON October 10 - 0 COMMENTS
The apprentice
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  They call him “The Apprentice” because he has been my personal assistant for all things hunting and fishing since he was knee high to a Shetland pony. He went on his first elk hunt when he was not quite six months old, wearing his first snowsuit and riding on mom’s back as we packed three elk off [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON October 10 - 0 COMMENTS
Legislation that works: The Wyoming Range Legacy Act
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  I know, I know... legislation that works? No doubt you're as sore as we are from the political whupping playing out on every public media channel known to man and given the tenor of those commercials, the LAST thing you're apt to believe is that there's something coming out of Washington that is [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON October 10 - 0 COMMENTS
The Feather Dance
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  The whistling crescendo of rushing air was not only startling, it was almost unnerving.  Like an eerie formation of B-17s, they loomed into sight, straight on over the ponderosas.  Twelve o’clock high, as they say.  No time to gawk or even take cover; I needed to make good on my promise. We who [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON September 27 - 0 COMMENTS
Two natives, two friends, two streams
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  by Tom Reed New country and old friends. A foundation, a beginning. An idea. Each year we’d each pick a stream on our borders, a thin blue line of water splashing from high mountain hold in country without roads, and few trails. If it were easy, we thought, anybody could do it and the fishing [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON September 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Philosophy of the sporting life: A meditation on why.
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Editor's note: This is part of an ongoing series by members of TU's Sportsmen's Conservation Project. For more, visit www.oursportingheritage.org, a site dedicated to protecting our backcountry resources.   There was a summer I spent as a wild child in the mountains of Iowa. There are no mountains [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY ON September 26 - 0 COMMENTS
Tis the Season of the Sportsman
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  The wind came up quite early this morning. It rus­tled through the trees out­side my win­dow, gen­tly thump­ing the blinds as it con­tin­ued through the streets. It was a sub­tle sign, but a sign nonetheless. It’s fall. We’ve been see­ing small hints here lately – small twinges of gold in the [ READ MORE... ]
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blog BY fish4budz ON September 8 - 1 COMMENTS
Moose on the Henrys
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Headed home from the Madison I stopped by the Railroad Ranch section of the Henrys Fork and to my suprise this guy was hanging out right where i was casting to risers. though I gave up on the picky rainbows to photograph this guy. larger photos of him in my gallery folder
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blog BY fish4budz ON September 5 - 0 COMMENTS
Fishing Bamboo
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if you have never had the pleasure of landing a fish on bamboo, put it on your bucket list. a five weight rod can offer great bends on small fish and amazing fights on fish over 12 or so inches. if you would like to purchase one, give me a shout. can do a custom order depending on the situation   [ READ MORE... ]
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