Summer and citrus-based beverages go together like peanut butter and jelly, ice-cold margaritas and Tex Mex Taco Plate Specials, cold beer and crispy chicken wings off the grill, etc., etc.
Further proof comes from this Lemon Drop cocktail courtesy of Jamie D. of Houston who spends weekends guiding with her husband down on Tres Palacios and Matagorda Bays (working out of Palacios).
She said lately, after pre-dawn starts to be in position on the flats at sunrise, they’ve been back at their beach house just after noon most days and find that “the grit of a long guide morning washes off much better with one of these Lemon Drops in hand after a long shower and with a pot of gumbo bubbling on the stove” or her husband throwing together the fixin’s for a batch of Matagorda Bay crab cakes.
Hot damn.
2 ounces vodka
1 ounce fresh lemon juice
1 ounce simple syrup
1/2 ounce Triple sec
Garnish: Lemon Twist, Sugar
If you’re into this sort of thing, coat the rim of a cocktail glass with sugar and set aside a few minutes to dry.
Combine all ingredients in your trusty shaker and fill with ice; shake, shake, shake.
Strain into the prepared (or not) glass, garnish, and go to it.
Enjoy.
As happens every summer, and in fact two weeks later than first restrictions in 2015 and 2016 (per the MT FWP press release), hoot owl restrictions have very appropriately been placed as of yesterday on several SW Montana watersheds prone to heating as summer flows ebb.
[Cue up the alarmist reporting in three, two, one…]
Follow Montana Waterbody Closure News here.
How’s that enlightened West Coast steelhead management coming along this year?
Stunningly bad from the (granted) early returns at Bonneville (Columbia) and Lower Granite (Lower Snake) dams thus far. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist (or a Ph.D. Fisheries Biologist) to see that current approaches simply aren’t working, and certainly makes one wonder what in the hell it might take to actually derive a change in management behavior?
Follow count updates along here on the ID Fish and Game site.
Chasing Slabs from Thurston Photo on Vimeo.
“There is something about the slab, something so unique, that keeps drawing me back, again, and again, and again.”
Chasing Slabs is a brief insight into the wave photography of Thurston Photo & Matt Blakers. Filmed on location along the remote coastline wilderness of Western Australia.
Come celebrate the completion of the Poindexter Slough project Saturday 22 July at Depot Park in Dillon.
Category winners from this past week’s IFTD show put on by AFFTA in Orlando. We’ll all be hearing much more about these goods over the next few months…
- Best of Show: Sage – Salt HD
- Men’s Wading Boots: Orvis — Ultralight Wading Boot
- Men’s Waders: Simms Fishing Products — G3 Wader
- Men’s Outerwear: Simms Fishing Products – G3 Guide Tactical Jacket
- Men’s General Apparel: Simms Fishing Products — SolarFlex Atom Shirt
- Women’s Waders: Orvis — Women’s Ultralight Waders
- Women’s Outerwear: Orvis — Pro Wading Jacket
- Women’s General Apparel: Simms Fishing Products — Women’s BiComp LS Shirt
- Women’s Wading Boots: Korkers, LLC — Women’s Dark Horse Boot
- Accessories Under $100: Fishpond, Inc. — Quickshot Rod Holder
- Gift Items Under $100: DeYoung Studios — DeYoung Gift Wrap
- Fly Rod — Freshwater: Scott Fly Fishing — The G Series
- Fly Rod — Saltwater: Sage Fly Fishing — Salt HD
- Reel – Freshwater: Abel — SDF (Sealed Drag Fresh)
- Reel – Saltwater: Nautilus Reels — GTx
- Fly Line — Freshwater: RIO Products — IT Single-Handed Spey 3D
- Fly Line — Saltwater: RIO Products — Direct Core Flats Pro
- Leader / Tippet: RIO Products — Big Nasty
- Fly Hooks: Stealth Fly Products — Stealth Hooks & System
- Fly Tying Vices & Tying Tools: TMC Magnetic Bobbin, Fine — Umpqua Feather Merchants
- Fly Tying Materials: Fair Flies — Composite Brushes
- Youth Product: Redington — Minnow Outfit
- Fly Pattern — Freshwater: Flymen Fishing Company — Double Barrell Bass Bug
- Fly Pattern — Saltwater: Umpqua Feather Merchants — Chicone’s Tuscan Bunny
- Fly Box / Storage System: Umpqua Feather Merchants — UPG HD Mag Midge Fly Box
- Eco-friendly Product: Fishpond, Inc. — Submersible Backpack
- Luggage (Bags, Backpacks): Fishpond, Inc. — Grand Teton Rolling Bag
- Entertainment / Education: Stackpole Books / Lyons Press — Orvis Fly Fishing Guide
- Chest Pack / Vest: Fishpond, Inc. — Submersible Lumbar Pack
- Boat / Personal Watercraft: Creek Company — T. Rex 9.8 Mini Drifter
Dammit, we’ve been alerted to a problem with our give away registration for our current give away – The Fly and the Fish in hardcover from Skyhorse Publishing.
It appears some people have been receiving an error that our give away gmail account is down or doesn’t exist when sending in their registration email; sadly I don’t know how long the problem was in place before being addressed last night.
We’re extending the registration window until Monday the 24th for this awesome book – send an email here (or use the link in the original post) with Fly and the Fish in the header to be counted. PLEASE send one in again even if you already did this past week to make sure you’re in the running for the book.
Many thanks to FS Buck Ryan of Flies for Rivers and Snake River Waterkeeper last night for the heads up on the issue.
PEAK SEASON | HIGH & DRY from BLOODKNOTS on Vimeo.
For the second episode we decided to stay a bit more local. Luckily we found our friends Jac and Chase from TX wandering a lonesome highway before they ran out of fluids. This trip gave the batteries a high voltage recharge after a nice stint of back to back trips. So stoked to share it with you…
Angling Trade is out with their Summer 2017 issue (read it here) and it’s packed with all sorts of new product release plugs which of course coincide with the 2017 IFTD show going on this past week in Orlando.
Though I typically read through AT when it drops (digitally drops), I was particularly interested in their spin on the DIY angler after seeming this poll pop up a few weeks ago. Deeter gave the topic a damned brief mention in this issue, though said the (expected) right stuff for the most part.
Our own Jess has been down helping run the show from the AFFTA side of things, and from the sound of it has been busy as hell getting it done with a short crew. She’ll have some behind the scenes insights down the road a bit.
Now that’s a boat shop.
A bird’s eye view of Tim Ruch’s Oregon shop via Wooden Boat People.
