Our friend and fellow outfitter, Josh Lauer, just sent these photos in. He was near a town called Kooskia (no McDonald’s restaurant there) located at the confluence of the Middlefork and Southfork of the Clearwater River, along Lewis Clark US Highway 12 in North Central Idaho.
Fly Fishing for steelhead is exciting! He said these two fish are in the smoker right now. What a pair of bookends they would make.
There is not much snow in the Bitterroots right now, at least not enough to find a close place to cross country ski. These photos show a desperate attempt to exercise near home and find a place to ski!
Jack and I are spending about 8 hours a day working on the business, then attend meetings, Lady Griz Basketball (my daughter plays), play music with the band, and more. Winter is busier than you might think. He ties flies, writes material, works on gear and vehicles. I do admin and web stuff. The work is necessary, but so is a mind and fitness break. For Jack’s work and for health, it is important to stay fit. We work in couple of hours of outdoor activity each day. The photos show one of our outdoor excursions with our dog, Bela.
Trout Unlimited On the Rise
Join us to hear updates on the Milltown Dam Removal and River Restoration project. Speakers include David Schmetterling, FWP; Russ Forba, EPA; and Doug Martin, NRDP.
UPDATE ON:
After plugging the Clark Fork-Blackfoor confluence for 100 years, the dam is a part of history.
On Wednesday, Feb. 4, from 5:30-7:30PM, the Clark Fork Coalition and Montana Trout Unlimited will co-host Guiding Without the Dam, an update for guides on the Milltown cleanup project, at the Coalition offices at 140 S. 4th St. W. Free pizza and beer will be served.
Please RSVP to info@clarkfork.org or 406-542-0539.
Introducing Alan Pilkington’s newest book!
In this compilation of short stories and poetry centered on rivers, mountains, and wild locations of great natural beauty, novelist and avid outdoors man Alan Pilkington shares the memories of the unforgettable times he spent as a young man on the banks of a mountain river outside of Melbourne, Australia.
Pilkington was born into a family where the men went to the mountains and fished for trout in the tumbling streams of the southern parts of Australia’s Great Dividing Range. Cultivating a lifelong love affair with the outdoors through his many stays in cabins built by successive family generations, he learned about the bush and its creatures while gaining a deep appreciation for the value of wilderness. Pilkington shares the journal entries, stories, and poems he composed while on fly-fishing and hunting adventures in Australia, New Zealand, England, the United States, Zimbabwe, and Tanzania–some serious, some lighthearted–all with a focus on rivers and how they provide inner-peace to all who seek it through them. Rivers of My Memory will touch anyone with a passion for the wilderness and who have rivers happily entwined in their memories.
Note from Alan:
Dear Friends,
Thank you for supporting my writing in the past. Rivers of My Memory is my first published work of short stories and poems. It is now available.
If you’d like to learn more about it, go to my web site http://www.alanpilkington.com/; you’ll find links there to the publisher and to online
book sellers.Or, simply go to iUniverse, Amazon, or Barnes and Nobles.
Thank you,
Alan Pilkington
Blog note: Alan is a friend of ours. With that being said, I love his novels. I haven’t read this yet…it is just out. I am anxious to open the cover and get started. With his other books, I became immersed and didn’t want them to end. You will want to check them out.
Click this link see another post about Alan’s outdoor adventures.
