It’s been a while since we’ve thrown something up on the blog. Damn, it’s almost been 6 weeks!
The late winter / early spring weather here in the neighborhood hasn’t felt very spring like, though the sun has just come out (it’s almost noon) and it looks like there’s a fair amount of new snow in the hills from the latest storm.
Runoff has dampened a bit on the area waters – driving by the Gallatin (near Four Corners) yesterday evening revealed much improved water that was quite a bit lower and stained a bit but not that dirty. It looked eminently fishable. Probably not so this morning given the heavy rains through the night and new snow melting as we speak.
Doesn’t really matter – there’s always some fishing to be done somewhere.
We’re pretty pumped about some new stuff we’re working on for the late spring and summer. We’ve been shooting and will continue to work on a complete update of our Rivers in Motion series – our goal is to have the bulk of the field work wrapped up by the 4th of July of weekend.
For a variety of reasons that include both play and work (note the order of placement) part of our team is headed to the Lone Star state for a while. Jake was down scouting recently along the coast in Rockport and Port Aransas and grabbed a pic of a gulf shrimper coming back in – he opined that the bikinis made up for the wind and haze at the beach than day.
Though not being discussed a great deal right now, it appears that tarpon have returned in decent numbers to the southernmost Texas coast – we’ll be down there filming this summer. We’re also working on a documentary project looking at how the oil disaster in the gulf is impacting and will impact fly fishing – we think we’ll going to focus primarily on Louisiana, though by all indications a great deal of the coastal gulf could be changed for a long time. To quote Henry Fonda in Spencer’s Mountain – damn, damn, triple damn, hell.
Southern Montana is a whole ‘nother universe compared to Central and Coastal Texas.
No doubt the food is a lot better down south (doesn’t some genuine Texas ‘que sound great for lunch?) and the bikini season is a lot longer in Texas than here.
More to come.
