>My river is blown. I guess that’s expected when my lonely gal is a freestoner…no man’s arms to hold her. So for now, I’m doing all the Spring cleaning and organizing and most importantly day dreaming. Inspecting the gear to make sure it’s ready for Autumn and the stories and groused adventures She’ll bring. Making…
WE ALL GOT SKUNKED . . . EVEN SUNNY
This morning, Darrin Dallimore and I went fishing on the Mini-Madison. I decided to take my French Brittany, Sunny girl, along to let her get some exercise. I have taken her fishing with me numerous times and never had any problems. With the water being high and a little off-color, the fishing was slow. I…
FAMILY ROAD TRIP!
Saturday morning at 5:00 a.m., we got the kids up for a Road Trip to Idaho’s Sun Valley, which seemed like the perfect place since it was raining pretty hard in Eastern Idaho. As you will see in some of the pictures below, some of the kids (hmm hmm . . . Emma) were not…
>Get a Bird Dog…
>“The way I figure it, dogs are the most advanced beings on the planet. They’re fully self-realized. They possess unconditional love. They forgive instantly. They’re empathetic and sympathetic. They’re incapable of guile or dishonesty. They’re always in the moment, not carrying the past or fretting about the future. Everything’s always new and wonderful. Every place…
TOMMY’S TURN
In my last post, I wrote about Eden’s (and my own) good fortune from the Fly-Tying Expo in Idaho Falls last month. Believe it or not, we weren’t the only ones from my family that had good luck at the Expo. Let’s just say that my six year old, Tommy, made out like a bandit….
THE BEST THIRTY DOLLARS I EVER SPENT
Last month, I took my wife and kids to the Snake River Cutthroats’, the local chapter of Trout Unlimited’s, Fly-Tying Expo in Idaho Falls. If you have never been, this is one of the best fly-fishing and tying expos in the nation. In the past, they have brought in such great fly-fishermen and tyers as…
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FATHER & SONS CAMP OUT
This weekend was my church’s annual Father & Sons Camp Out. Tommy and I look forward to this every year. In fact, we call it “Father & Sizzlin’s.” Since I was in charge, I picked a spot where we could go fishing and have a high likelihood of success: Birch Creek. I took Friday off…
>Caddis & Coffee
>Spring has finally decided to settle in! Between-the-crazies as we call it…the time between the gunning season and everything else! We just pray (as gunners) to make it to another Indian summer and the uplands with pointing dogs and the devil cocker afield. Until then, I plan to hit the river as much as possible…
UPLAND GAME SHOOTING by H.L. BETTEN
As I mentioned in a previous post, the Upland Equation blog contributors have already and will continue to share book reviews on various sporting books we read. Most recently, Walter did a great review of John Hightower’s book, Pheasant Hunting, which is one of the Borzoi Books for Sportsmen published by Alfred A. Knopf. In…
THE GRAVES OF LUST
The ancient writer of Ecclesiastes wrote: “There is no new thing under the sun.” It seems that the older I get, the more this statement rings true. This past weekend while reading the Old Testament, I learned that there were game hogs even back in biblical times. Lithograph entitled, “The Giving of Quail” published in…
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