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MAIN STREET MATTERS BY BENJAMIN MOORE PAINTS Video An interesting observation of life is small town folks seem drawn to the city and city folks want to escape to the small town. Both offer something that helps counter balance the perceived doldrums or chaos of the other. Listen to the commercial and perhaps you will recognize Brad Pitt’s voice too. Also, the are having a contest on nominating your favorite Main Street. Filed under: flyfishing, History, Life, Memories Tagged: BENJAMIN MOORE, Brad Pitt, Heritage, Main Street Matters, paint, small town, SwittersB, video

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Joe Moore, Chi Wulff compadre and the Big Kahuna at Big Sky Anglers in West Yellowstone, has a great piece up on his blog today titled Drake. He writes ostensibly about chasing Drakes on the Henry’s Fork but was really writing about the magical connection that wade fishing affords the fly fisher - Wade fishing is one of my favorite past times.  Why?  Because it’s just you and the river – intimacy with a river is hard to come by unless one gets out of the boat and stalks trout.  When wading, all your skills come into play: stalking, reach casts, managing slack line, mending, feeding slack line and of course, setting the hook. You watch and wait. Patience is key and without it one will never really get it. Timing is everything.  Okay, maybe not everything as a good reach cast will bring home the bacon, but timing is damn near everything.  That’s why one must go fishing, cause if you don’t go you won’t know…….just how good it was… [On a somewhat related side note, we’re playing with a couple of Chi Wulff hosted trips in the next twelve months and keep coming back to a walk and wade, fish and photography outing in Yellowstone this fall - that tweak anyone’s interest out there?] Southern Trout Editor Don Kirk has a nice riff on digital publishing in the July 2013 issue of Southern Trout, another very nice digital mag covering the southern fly fishing scene… …Digital publishing is the future. It is fast, cheap, versatile and growing faster than the national debt. Delivery and access systems are improving at a rate that even the most technically savvy geeks cannot keep pace with the light speed progress. Frankly, from a personal preference, I like paper magazines. I suppose that ole Gutenberg got tired of some people telling him that his Bibles were nice, but that they would never take the place of hand scribed copies from the monasteries. What I do not miss is tossing and turning in bed trying to figure where the money would come from to pay the printer or post office. I don’t even mind not having to belly crawl into my banker’s office in an effort to get a loan to make payroll. I suppose that I am not as old fashioned as I would like to think that I am… Well said, gentlemen. Image: Zack Williams reaching on the Mo; Fire Girl Photography Tags: Inquiring Minds Want to Know

My Father’s Day celebration was perfect this weekend. I heard from my four children early in the morning and considered myself blessed. I thought back to my Dad and did the usual assessment of his personality, strengths and arrived at the eventual conclusion…remarkable man…I was lucky, I was blessed. I wish I would have told him that beyond when I told him, as I held his hand, as he took his final breathes in the hospital.  This weekend, I attended my daughter’s graduation at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. It was a very pleasant celebration that segued, in my mind, into the joys of fatherhood, the bittersweet transitions, the sometimes blind luck that results in amazing kids. 6,000 empty seats on the stadium floor awaited the graduating class of 2013 My daughter about to walk up to receive her diploma. Optimism, relief, expectation, apprehension….life. Filed under: Life, Photography Tagged: children, daughter, family, father, Father's Day, Parent, Photography, SwittersB, University of Washington

when the black Cottonwood trees, in the wild land area behind our homes, start their month long snow fall of cotton that coats everything like a gauzy shroud. Just when the yard comes into shape comes the swirling, cottony mess…it started this weekend. Soon the lawn and street will be white. This morning’s coating begins as the morning warms up the seedlings fall. Like drifting snow, the accumulations build up against edges and corners first. I prefer the real snow…………I think Filed under: Nature, Photography Tagged: Black Cottonwoods, Cottonwoods, landscaping, mess, Nature, nuisance, Photography, photos, Poplars, seedlings, SwittersB, trees

Yeah buddy! Bruce Chard, legendary Florida Keys guide and Andros South Bonefishing School instructor, brought his son B.J. to Alaska West last summer. They had a blast, despite having to wear a lot more clothing than they’re used to back at home… Nice fish, guys! More on Rainbow Trout in Alaska Fishing Techniques We Use for Trout How Alaskan Trout Are Different from Lower 48 Trout 5 Ways to Catch More Trout in Alaska

We heard from Tom Wolf recently that Trout Unlimited hired Dean Finnerty as the new Southwest Oregon field representative for the Sportsman’s Conservation Project. Per Dean’s blog: I’ll be working with a wide variety of stakeholders on issues related to … Continue reading →

If things seemed like they slowed down around here this past weekend, it was because we were in Charleston for beach play, family time, and a few hours of fly fishing with Scotty and Bruner from the Lowcountry Fly Shop early yesterday morning.The tides weren't right for tails in the grass so we motored out to an obscure set of sandbars and cast flies into the surf. In my mind this is kind of a low probability/high rewards type game and the hard packed sand bars slowly got eaten up with crashing surf over the few hours we were there making long casts into the waves. A few fish were seen but none took a swipe at our flies. I had one redfish ride a wave all the way to my feet, turn and slowly swim back into the into the ocean.Later in the morning we hopped back on the boat and poled around a sand flat finding a small pack of redfish that scattered and then a few bonnethead sharks who were on patrol looking for an easy meal.All in all a great way to spend Father's Day morning and I can't wait to get back down again.Subscribe in a reader

It's tough to beat casting big beefy dry flies to big dry fly eating trout. Nom...nom...nom...More shortie film fun on the Simms Fishing YouTube channel. Subscribe in a reader