musings of an outdoorsman

Got Through a Rough Week

Here I am at the laundromat waiting for my clothes. And as weird as it sounds, I rather enjoy it. I guess it’s because it just affords me time to slow down, relax and think. Then again, so does smoking a cigar. “Yeah, but right now you’re smoking a cigar

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One Week at Home and Back in Montana

“Ha, I knew it! You ended up not going fishing or shooting, while back home. You wrote in your last article that you’ll probably just bum around. You wrote that as an out so when you didn’t go fishing or shooting you could say you said that.” As predicted, aside from

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Yep! Another Early Morning.

Welp, it’s 3:40am and here I am sitting in my chair, drinks and cigars on the side table, overlooking the woods waiting for the sun to rise. “don’t forget, you also have country music coming from the truck playing softly in the background. Oh wait, it’s a SUV, sorry”  “What

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Random Thoughts at Sunrise

I sat there quietly in my camp chair, overlooking the woods, waiting for the sunrise. I’d been there since 5am, a little later than usual, but there none the less. The folding side table on the chair held my morning drink and pack of backwoods. My mind slowly drifted in

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Freestone Fly shop

This isn't my Brown Trout

but I’m going to leave this royalty free image here for inspiration, until I can replace the picture with one of my own.