Category: Shop Talk

  • Pile of Guts

    Pile of Guts

    In anticipation of sun eclipsing mobs of Salmonfly adults, the native anglers here get a little up-tight and walk around with a hard case of itchy trigger finger, twitching helplessly with a nervous tic for hours on end. A few quick hours on some of our local still-waters is a quick and sure…

  • Osprey Rescue

    Osprey Rescue

    A young female Box canyon Osprey was rescued by our two veteran TroutHunter guides, Brad Miller & Doc Martin Reed as well as our tongue twisting shop manager Chris "Grizz" Andelin. From the good folks at ISLAND PARK NEWS check out the story [click here] UPDATE SNIPPETS: From The Henry’s Fork…

  • Bear Attack

    Rich and I walked from his house at about 6am for a morning of chasing elk. We headed in to the woods behind his house with the intent of using the power line as a quiet route from which we had hoped to hear a bugle or two. The morning was generally uneventful other than…

  • Jon Siehl Interview

    Originally posted in The Drake. Written by Geoff Mueller Last Chance, ID [Last Friday we posted a short piece on Last Chance, Idaho, flyshop, The TroutHunter. Co-owner Jon "The Animal" Stiehl joins us today, filling you in on the dirt: High times, low times, drunken A-Bar debates, scraps…

  • Interview with an Osprey

    After returning from their winter habits, the Osprey have just recently began to return the Henry’s Fork. One was kind enough to take a break from trout hunting in Last Chance Run to perch up with us and answer a few questions. FNR: ( Forkin News Reporter): Where did you grow up? Osprey: Over…