Chronicle Outdoors

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Time to buy your 2011 fishing license, new regs for Yellowstone, Missouri rivers set

| February 28, 2011

Yesterday was the last day to fish with your 2010 Montana fishing license (the season runs from March 1 to the last day of February the following year). I spent the final day of ’10 license validity under overcast skies casting to trout on the East Gallatin River. I managed to land a few, too. [...]

Is Bozeman the best fishing town in America? National contest aims to find out

| February 26, 2011

The World Fishing Network (WFN), a cable network that offers 24-hour fishing news, stories and lifestyle features, is on the search for the best fishing town in America. The network is holding a nationwide contest asking anglers to nominate their favorite towns to determine a winner. Bozeman, with its close proximity to the Madison, Gallatin [...]

Wildlife ambassadors: Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center aims to educate, inspire

| February 24, 2011

WEST YELLOWSTONE – You can hear them breathing. You can see the whites of their eyes. And you can really appreciate the size of Yellowstone’s most dominant predators at the Grizzly & Wolf Discovery Center (GWDC) in West Yellowstone.

Fishing bamboo: classic equipment resonates with history, heritage of sport

| February 17, 2011

Per Brandin, one of the nation’s foremost builders of fine bamboo fishing rods, still recalls the day cane stirred his soul. It was during his senior year of high school. The young Brandin, then living in his hometown of Tarrytown, N.Y., was a highly-active member of the local Trout Unlimited chapter. That year, the New [...]

Remembering Sylvester Nemes: Bozeman fly-fisherman and author elevated art of angling with soft-hackled flies

| February 10, 2011

Sylvester Nemes met his wife Hazel Nemes on a blind date in Ringwood, Hampshire, England, in the spring of 1944. Sylvester was stationed in Great Britain serving with the U.S. Army Air Force during World War II and Hazel was a nursing student. The couple rendezvoused for their first date at a bus stop, and [...]

The little mountain that could: Maverick Mountain has great skiing at a great price

| February 3, 2011

POLARIS – “It’s all about attitude,” Ron Loge told me last Thursday as I munched on a Stromboli sandwich in the parking lot of Maverick Mountain Ski Area. “Everybody here is laid back. They are here because they love to ski.” Behind us the slopes of Maverick Mountain lifted upward to the height of the [...]