Options, Always Options

Options, Always Options

Posted by: John Holt / added: 08.31.2010 / Comments (0)

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Bass Pond Eutrophy

Bass Pond Eutrophy

Posted by: John Holt / added: 07.01.2010 / Comments (0)

Deep purple clouds boil over the sage and native grass covered hills. Nighthawks swoop and drone as they feed on insects. Swallows, too.

Photo: Ginny Holt

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Posted by: John Holt / added: 07.01.2010 / Comments (0)
The Milk

The Milk

Posted by: John Holt / added: 05.23.2010 / Comments (2)

The Milk is one of these and it doesn’t make any pretentious attempts to polish its natural image in order to attract the adventure-travel fly fishing herd...

Photo: Milk River, MT. Ginny Holt

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Posted by: John Holt / added: 05.23.2010 / Comments (2)
Going, Going, Gone

Going, Going, Gone

Posted by: John Holt / added: 05.11.2010 / Comments (1)

...I try to stay nearby as she works the water and offer advice gained from decades of modest successes and robust failures – all well intentioned but short lived.

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Posted by: John Holt / added: 05.11.2010 / Comments (1)
Line Holders

Line Holders

Posted by: John Holt / added: 04.19.2010 / Comments (2)

The two at the top have red agate line guides that are beautiful to behold in bright sunlight. The one on the left was made for Williams Robertson Fishing Tackle of Glasgow, Scotland by J.W. Young of Redditch, England way before I was born.

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Posted by: John Holt / added: 04.19.2010 / Comments (2)
The Lovely Reed

The Lovely Reed

Posted by: John Holt / added: 03.22.2010 / Comments (1)

All of them cast with a gentle assertiveness clearly reminiscent of times gone by.

Photo: Ginny Holt

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Posted by: John Holt / added: 03.22.2010 / Comments (1)
Morning Eye Opener

Morning Eye Opener

Posted by: John Holt / added: 03.15.2010 / Comments (0)

...or canoeing the lower Yellowstone and casting a trio of soft hackle patterns—Hare and Starling, Spanish Needle, Greenwell’s Glory—to luminous Goldeye that are rising all over the place...

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Posted by: John Holt / added: 03.15.2010 / Comments (0)

John Holt

John Holt

John lives in Livingston, Montana with his wife Ginny. They spend a good deal of time losing their way and then finding themselves in places like Pelly Crossing, Yukon, High Level, Alberta, and Wrigley, Northwest Territories. He is the author of a number of books including Yellowstone Drift, Coyote Nowhere and Hunted: A Novel.

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