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Winter Fishing and Waxwings

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2001, Hatches and Bugs, Lifestyle, Trout, U.S. placesBy Chris Dombrowski December 7, 2008 2 Comments

In Montana there are two kinds of winter days-those that are warm enough for fishing and those that aren’t. Here, cold is a relative term. A week of high-sky, 40-degree weather in early November can send the Baetis hatch into submission and seem downright arctic after a month of Indian Summer. Yet a windless February…

Tippets

Drake Magazine Back Issue Content 2001, Hatches and Bugs, Humor, LifestyleBy Tom Bie February 18, 2007 Leave a comment

See them coming, swimming toward you like ducks across the sky at dawn. It’s hard for a Northern Rockies trout chaser to fathom: no hatch to match, no current seam to aim for, just you and a couple dozen bonefish headed your direction. Throw it too late and you’ll spook ’em. Too early and your…