The family all sat around in the living room discussing numerous things including the preparations for my father’s funeral. Everyone’s emotions were so on the surface as we laughed and cried about our beloved Dad. Somehow the topic came up about how we would handle selling Dad’s things for my Mom. In tears I said…
Tag: Brown Trout
TO KNOW A RIVER
Author’s Note: This post first appeared on my blog, Upland Equations on June 27, 2013. As an angler, can you ever really know a river? Over the years, there have been many that I have become very familiar with and loved dearly. But I have come to understand that every river withholds some of its deepest secrets. This is one…
THE PILGRIMAGE
A “Pilgrimage” is defined by Webster’s as a journey made by a person to a sacred place as an act of religious devotion. Some may not believe that a fishing destination meets such a description, but over the years, for reasons I describe in detail in my first book, Heaven on Earth: Stories of Fly…
BAD LEROY BROWN
In my book, Heaven on Earth: Stories of Fly Fishing, Fun & Faith, I wrote about one of my favorite secret fishing spots in Idaho, “The Mini-Madison.” I named it this when I first fished there because it reminded me of my favorite river, the Mighty Madison in Montana, except instead of being a 50 mile riffle, it is only 100 yards…
FROM DAWN TO DUSK
This past weekend, I was blessed with the opportunity to fish two days with my brother, Shawn, on the Arkansas River in Colorado. In fact, my good brother gave me the airplane ticket as an early birthday present. It just so happened that our trip fell right on the Summer Solstice, the longest day of…
SOUTH FORK FORTUNE
I live in Idaho Falls close to some of the best fishing in the world, the Henry’s Fork, the Fall River, the Teton River, and the South Fork. This is by design, of course. Of all those big rivers, I struggle most with the mighty South Fork of the Snake River, a monstrous river loaded with…
Upland Ways 