Ben Pierce | 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. [...]
Category: Billings, Madison River, Montana FWP, Yellowstone National Park |
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Tags: fishing license, fishing regualtions, northern pike, Toston Dam, Toston Reservoir, Travis Horton
Ben Pierce | 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 [...]
Category: Bozeman, Fishing, Madison River, Yellowstone National Park |
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Tags: Bozeman Creek, carp, Toston, walleye, World Fishing Network
Ben Pierce | 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.
Category: Bears, Birds, Elk, West Yellowstone, Wolves, Yellowstone National Park |
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Tags: Erika Kuc, gray wolf, grizzly bear, Trent Redfield, Yellowstone National Park
Ben Pierce | 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 [...]
Category: Bozeman, Fishing, Trout Unlimited |
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Tags: bamboo rods, Bill Blackburn, fly fishing, Hell Mountain Fishing Company, Mark Koscinski, Per Brandin, Wolfhard Schulz
Ben Pierce | 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 [...]
Category: Bozeman, Fishing, Madison River, Trout Unlimited, Yellowstone National Park |
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Tags: fly fishing, Madison River, Sylvester Nemes, Yellowstone National Park, Yellowstone River
Ben Pierce | 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 [...]
Category: Hidden Gems, Skiing |
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Tags: Dillon, Maverick Mountain, Polaris, Randy Shilling, Ron Loge