Staging for a 10 Day Colorado Drive By Shooting Hanging out in the backyard waiting for the group to appear for a hike and planning. An Outdoor Adventure to the far west corner of Colorado and back to Rocky Mountain National Park. Hummingbirds start to appear as sun begins to cross the yard […]
Drive by Shooting from here to Colorado But where is here? Just happens to be where ever I am at the moment. It is a Friday morning around 6:30 am heading south on US-191 as if it matters. Being a time traveler with a camera. I can’t wait for our interplanetary or interdimensional travel […]
Spun of Hackle, Wool, and Flash Dancing with Trout Wooly on the Swing Deceiving with every twitch on the drift Wooly Bugger Ode` Over time teaching fly tying class I have offend started beginning fly tyers off with the Wooly Bugger as the first fly they will tie. With a Wooly Bugger the tyer […]
Pre-Post COVID19 Expedition Similitude-1 Camping and Fishing to Seattle Got rubber rolling down the US-24 west at 7 am on Memorial Day, heading to see what is going on and talk some Thoreau teaching about peaceful civil disobedience. Cog railroad car from the Pikes Peak rail As a company, […]
Up into Summerland on Wonderland Trail the Journey Begins Hiking the Wonderland Trail in its entirety has always been a dream. At this moment time is just a short in and out was all that was written in the trail dust for me. It was a perfect summer day for doing ten miles in […]
Mount Rainier National Park, Summerland Wonderland Trail Similitude1-2 Hike Hiking in Mount Rainier National Park is always fun. Feeling a little more energic this morning, must be the blue skies. Comfortable in my hang out graphic hoodie and trout patterned leggings, the first mile breezed by. Wonderland Trail circumvents the base of Mount […]
Feeling the Energy and Beauty of Mount Rainier Mount Rainier has a special energy, like all our National Parks. Some more that others, I have felt different energies beside, before and behind me. Those bug me a bit, harder to pinpoint. Be prepared and stay aware of your surrounding at all times in […]
Cheesman Canyon Similitude-1 Hike Along the South Platte River On a sunny Sunday morning arrived at the Cheesman Canyon Trailhead for a loop hike of exercise and photography, without looking at a map or having one did an 8.01 mile loop hike with 2.5 miles of road hiking. I started out this layer, […]
Tying a Olive Micro Wooly Bugger Personally I have found trout really enjoy a Micro Wooly Bugger tied on a jig hook with a red bead. I have been tying these wooly buggers in a size 14. I find tying wooly buggers relaxing and catching trout exhilarating. The easiest way to put […]
Hiking Washington State on Boulder River Trail Similitude-1 Boulder River Trail was a last minute Sunday morning type of thing, getting out the door around eleven am. Grabbing extra coffee, water, brown trout fishing hoodie and my pack out the door we went. Distance 6.24 mi Ascent 872 ft Total Time 4h […]
Wooly Buggers Patterns, Tying, Fly Fishing Approaches to Fish Them I have a couple of boxes in my fly fishing gear of wooly buggers Patterns. I have several favorite rods, lines and approaches to fishing wooly buggers from a small stream to a spring run-off river. Still water is a whole different deal […]
Direction, No Destination Known just a Drive By Shooting Day starts with direction. No destination known. Heading south on US-191 Montana. How the world looks before morning coffee! Or after a weekend with Hunter Thompson. Had a hard time getting the world into focus this morning, in Drive by US-191 Angus […]
