So far for the last 5 or 6 years we make a special trip to the river that we like to call “Mancamp”. The term “mancamp” is reserved for when the Texans come to town. For the last few years it has been an early fall/closing weekend deal. This year we postponed for a week [...]

 I saw this article and could only think this can’t be good in the long run. Sure, there won’t be as many trucks (see, Megaloads) hauling stuff from way up north and that’s kinda cool. What scares me is that these things will make mining and access a whole lot easier. Read the article. Probably not good.

This post from the guys at Old Au Sable pretty much sums it up.   Here’s the soundtrack for those days when you are ready to settle in and commit to sticking with it.

  Clean up weekend is here! Well, next weekend anyway. September 10th is THE day. Saturday after Labor Day. Its that weekend that no one but everyone looks forward to. Its the perfect kind of a weekend to introduce new folks to the resource that we love. Come one come all! This year we are [...]

Via The Chum. Looks like fun to me. Where do I sign up? …and who’s paying for it?

Its no big secret that we are streamer junkies. For the past several years all of us here at Hatchless have done nothing (at least as far as I can remember) but talk about how awesome streamer fishing is and how much we love to do it. All true but the fact is, we are [...]

Has this gone too far? Not yet! I can’t wait to see what’s next. Is it possible that we will see KBarton’s new “greatest freakin’ nymph dubbing the world has ever freakin’ seen” showing up dubbed on people’s hair as dreads? I should figure out how to plant that seed. That would be a riot. ?

I’m not sure where I made the transition from backpack toting hardcore kid to tree loving fly fishing dude but I guess it works for me. Enjoy some classic Fugazi. I still do.

I would  love to think that Justin Vernon has at some point in his life picked up a fly rod and had fun with it. Of that I can’t be sure but I can say that every one of the music projects that he has been a part of have been nothing short of amazing. [...]