On the backside of my favorite blue grouse covert that I christened, “Grouseketeer Ridge,” is an open hill above the timberline where blue grouse are often found in the sagebrush and berry bushes hunting grasshoppers, ants, and other insects. It is consistently a great place to find birds. I call this particular part of the…
Colorado Blues
Check out Upland Ways for my blue grouse hunting in Colorado’s awesome grouse country. Setter Feathers…
CHECK OUT OUR NEW BLOG UPLAND WAYS
For the last year, I have been bugging my brother Shawn Wayment to truly join forces with me on just one blog. I have been running Upland Equations primarily by myself for over four years now and Shawn has been solely running Setter Feathers & Groused Tales. As you may guess, it takes a lot…
Upland Ways: Red Letter Days and Upland Ways
My brother Andy and I decided to start a new blog together and concentrate on the uplands and streams of the American West…we’re excited to collaborate together, and we hope in return our readers will have a greater appreciation of the uplands here in the West. We’re not advocating that people (become Nimrods) take up…
Chubby Mormon Girl
My absence the past few months can be explained…I’ve been crazy about a river. Not just any river, but the Arkansas River near my Sangre de Cristo mountains of southern Colorado. Most fisherman know of the Arkansas for it prolific Mother’s Day caddis hatch, but come run off time she goes largely ignored except for…
TENDER MERCIES ON TRICKLE CREEK
~Withhold not thou thy tender mercies from me, O Lord: let thy lovingkindness and thy truth continually preserve me. Psalms 40:11. As we drove towards our destination, my younger brother, Jacob, vented about the heartache and frustration he felt from going through a bitter divorce. Our objective that night was to fish a tiny creek full…
LATEST NEWS ON WAYMENT’S HEAVEN ON EARTH
Greetings all! I hope everyone is getting excited about the upcoming hunting season. I know I am, but not as much as my antsy Brittanys. Less than two weeks left in Idaho! It can’t come soon enough. I wanted to give you a quick update on my book, Heaven on Earth: Stories of Fly Fishing,…
DAY SEVEN: BREAKING THE CURSE
[Author’s Note: This is another chapter from my forthcoming bird-hunting book, Roadside Revelations: Tales of Bird Dogs, Family & Other Upland Equations. This story is of Day Seven of my awesome week of hunting in October of 2010. If you are interested, the posts on the prior six days of the hunt are in the Upland Equations archives. For this hunt, we hunted a…
HEAVEN ON EARTH IS NOW AVAILABLE IN KINDLE, NOOK, AND GOOGLE E-BOOKS
This summer is flying by on wings of lighting. I cannot believe that it is the last day of July. I’m happy to report that the fly fishing this past month has been simply phenomenal. I am truly blessed blessed to live in Idaho, in the heart of some of the best fishing available. The…
THE WHITE WONDER: GOING OUT WITH A BANG!
By Andrew M. Wayment [Author’s Note: I have been working hard on finishing the manuscript for my forthcoming second book: Roadside Revelations: Tales of Bird Dogs, Family & Other Upland Equations. I have one or two more chapters to finish and then its ready for submission to a publisher. This piece, which I wrote yesterday, is actually Part Three…
FISHING WITH T-BASS IN SOUTHERN IDAHO LIVING MAGAZINE
It has been a while since I posted and that is because life has been super busy, in large part, because the fishing has been great. Man, I love this time of year! This is a photo of Tommy’s Brownie he caught on the Mini-Madison a few weeks ago. This post is to give you a quick…
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