A Christmas Perdigon Welcome to winter! As I’m writing this, we in Western Montana are having our first major snow storm. Most of the birds that are going to leave have left. The ones that stay sit puffily in the mornings waiting for the late rising sun and a few more degrees before they get…
Month: December 2025
A Most Unusual Catch
Day four of a seven day backpacking / car camping / fishing trip found me exhausted. On day one, after a car camp at Lola Creek Campground near Stanley, Idaho, we packed down Marsh Creek to the confluence that forms the Middle Fork of the Salmon River, fished our way up Bear Valley Creek, discovering…