go me

Any resemblance to any blogger person you know is purely coincidental.  Any defamatory conjecture on your part will be pursued through the legal process.

blue ribbon

So that's what we're calling this trail?

 'blow chunks hill' must not have fit the sign

Guess the USFS dint take to my suggestion of Blow Chunks Hill. ;-]

Railed it anyway~

sage advice

The kids and I just finished watching the LOTR trilogy again last week.  There's one particular scene that stuck with me.  

You know the one- where Borormir counsels the Fellowship on the utter fallacy of attempting to scale the depths of The Gorge in pursuit of the Rio's legendary cuttbows?

 

I should have listened. 

tip of the hat to those hilarious college kids over at MGoBlog

Still, what a jerk, amirite?

so sick!

too funny! My favorite- (on the lip of a bunny hill) droppin in!

DISCLAIMER: this author is in no way represented in the below video in any form whatsoever, in person, in abstentia, in radness, or stokedness, in fact, fiction or parody.  Any and all parallels drawn are pure conjecture of the spurious sort.

  HT: Fixie Dave Nice

Hey did you see my blog?

Duuude!  check out that cutty!  pfffft!

Stiller on mtb

This really cracked me up~  Happy Friday!

Hat tip: singletracks.com

product testing

...solely in the interests of consumer safety, I assure you.

this was no accident

It's a dangerous world out there- always wear your helmet!



HT: just about everyone on the internets, Mrs Wulff, mtbr.com

tanning elk hide with brains

submitted without comment~

allright, can't resist- with whose brains, exactly?  ;-)

Awesomeness: fly fishing helmets

Hard lid for flyfishing?  Awesome.

Looks like T Furguson beat me too it, lol.

look for it at 1.00~

Fly Fishing Mystery Theater from RA Beattie on Vimeo.

HT: like everyone in the fly fishing blogosphere.

this just made me laff

Nice to be on the receiving end once in a while.  Just sayin~

Hat Tip: everyone in the Michigan Blogosphere.  Plus Mocksession.com.

Backstory: decided underdogs UM advance to NCAA hockey finals, taking down heavily favored North Dakota 2-0.  Scooter Vaughn having just scored on an empty goal to put UM up 2-0.   Whatchagonnado?

pants on fire

say it with me kids: 'failure to promote an atmosphere of compliance'

no further questions yer honor

Hat Tip: MGoblog, OSU's Eleven Warriors

real life

As many of you might have guessed, I'm up to my eyeballs juggling real life responsibilities as they say.  Taking a few days off to work over the kitchen now has me working the weekend in valiant if somewhat vain attempt to catch up at the office.  In the meantime, we're still shopping and ordering materials for the kitchen project.  Oh and yeah, kids basketball and soccer wait for no man.

Adding insult to injury, I'm now heading into partial redesign on one project at work + deadline on another- well you get the drift. 

So yeah, that leaves little time for chasing fins or, ye-gads!, take the ole Yeti for a spin.  Good thing I saw this coming, put her into the shop for a coupla upgrades:

Now I can ditch that silly bell, I'm thinking those trail runners will hear me now, ya think?

a thing of beauty

Finally! Somebody out there gets it.   

I mean, really, REALLY, gets it.


Sniff.

Is it too early to start Christmas List 2011?

festivus

for the rest of us!



as for this blogger, I am not looking forward to Mrs Wulff's Airing of Grievances around the table tonight. Not gonna be pretty. ;-]

R-E-S-P-E-C-T

booya? I've printed it out, business-card size, laminated it. Plan on flashing it around Sportsman's next time I'm up to the Juan.

avant garde christmas

'genius is rarely recognized it its time'- some other genius

10am
Mrs Wulff asked me to set up the tree, while she went grocery shopping, picked up the dry cleaning, ran the car in for an oil change, supervised the kids' practice at school.  

10.04:  Done and done! 

Makes the post-holiday cleanup a snap- see always thinkin!

Now back to footbaw! 

2pm:
Well, that dint go as planned- Mrs Wulff returned, got all huffy about it.  Someone's not in the Christmas Spirit just yet it would appear, yikes.

kids!  Get the vacuum, stat!

<<--Lemme ask ya, does this look right to you?  

The guy on the street corner said he just cut it last week.  Thought it curious at the time that he dint have, like, an actual tree lot.  Just selling them outta his car, huh.

Still it was too good a deal to pass up.  Are you with me? Well, that's what the Mrs said too.  Huh.

Honey, where's that green spray paint?  No reason!  Gotta go to WallyWorld real quick, be right back!

3.15pm
OK, got the tree spruced right up (see what I did there?) with new coat of paint pine forest freshness.  Finally finished stringing up the eleven* strings of lights, took like forever, but it's gonna be great!

*yes eleven, 'cause that's how we roll in la casa de Roughrider.

rut roh raggy

Can't figure this out tho---->>> 

Anyone know how to get this to work?

Must need an adaptor of some sort, huh?











Honey, gotta go to Radio Shed real quick, be right back!

4.45pm
Well that guy was just plain rude, might have to call Corporate to let them know what kinda 'tude Bernard's been laying on the customers.  Snickering the whole time I'm trying to explain I need some kinda male-to-male adaptor, did he have any of those available?  Sheesh, some people.


Showed him by not buying the adaptor he dint have, hmmph.

Happy Holidays from Mrs Wulff & kids!

While I was haggling with Bernard, Mrs Wulff pulled the lights back off**, redraped the lot of 'em, adding ornaments + 12th string to boot.  Luv ya hon!







**according to both Mr Benard Smarty-Pants and my darlin wife, apparently I could just reconnect the strings 'in order', who knew?!  Still, you think Benard could be appreciative of my intentions, instead of hollering out around the store to his laughing co-workers I needed a male-to-male 'connection'***, they did not have those in stock, Radio Shed is not that kinda store.

***not that there's anything wrong with that

huge in europe

Yep you read that right. Me and the Hoff go ahead and click that link, you know you want to- gives you a taste of what I'm willing to go thru to put up Qwal-i-Tee entertainment for all yuse ;-].

the Definitive work on trout and salmonids, en francois

Ahem, sorry bout that.

Not content with my unbridled success here in the America's, I've now set my sights across The Pond. To wit, the Essence that is my Awesomeness is quickly spreading across Europe, as we speak. ;-]

The epicenter of my diabolical plan: Normandy, France....hmmmmm..

The instrument of my total and utter domination? Le grand livre de la Truite et des salmonides.

But of course, you say!

I'm published- booya!

Yep, that's my Rio Grande Cutthroat trout, lower left, page 112. Placed into the definitive treatise on trout and salmonids, written en Francois by one Mssr Christophe Matho of Normandy, France.

credit, where credit is due

Seriously now:  I was contacted by Mssr Matho some 2 years ago, requesting assistance in providing a photo or two to support his work on trout and salmonids, seen here.  Yeah, a bit bizarre, I know!  Happy to oblige a fellow friend of fishes, I sent out three Mssr Matho was interested in, mostly figuring that'd be the last I heard of the project.

That is, until a few weeks ago, when I received a request for a mailing address that I may receive my copy of the completed treatise.  What the what?!  I know!...was thinking I was about to fall into a scam myself.

The Great Book of Trout and Salmonidae arrived yesterday, and I'm still giddy about the whole affair.

Anyone out there read French? Not so much?  Well, I guess I can give it a go ;-]

150 years ago, this trout occupied all the cool waters of the watershed of the Rio Grande river systems including Chama, Jemez and Rio San Jose. We do find it more now than a hundred heads of the basin (huh, must be getting rusty...) which corresponds to less than 10% of its ancestral range. Its colors range from yellowish green to gray and the top of its sides is dotted with black spots, with a respectable size in the tail. She wears beautiful colors during spawning. The orange vermilion of her belly between the green flanks enable it to compete with some exotic fish.

Adult, it measures 30cm. The Rio Grande cutthroat is the official fish of the State of New Mexico.

This cutthroat trout prefer clear streams and lakes. Populations inhabit river rapids and enjoy the fresh water flowing on a stones in the riverbed. Lake populations enjoy the cold, deep water lakes.

Spawning generally occurs between mid-May and mid-June.

Males are sexually mature at age 2 years, females at age 3 years. This trout lives an average of five years. It feeds mainly on aquatic insects or terrestrial insects that fall into the water. Only large trout prey on other fish.

The Rio Grande Cutthroat trout can hybridize with rainbow trout, which contributes to the weakening of pure populations of Rio Grande Cutthroat. It also suffers between competition with brown trout abundant in the Rio Grande Basin. 

The below specimen was captured in the wild by the renowned angler photographer extraordinaire, Mssr Royal Wulff, and remains amongst the finest examples of fly fishing photography ever to grace a page, New World or Old. Mssr Wulff authors the Peabody-award winning blog of Dry Flies and Fat Tires, currently residing at the top of my bookmarks listing- give him a read!  You will find the Essence of Mssr Wulff's Awesomeness currently touring throughout Europe.

Oh allright, I may have made that last paragraph up.

Still, cool beans, no?

look for it in fine bookstores throughout Europe.  And soon throughout The World.  Bwaaaa ha hahahaha!

My Rio Grande Cutthroat set that started it all:

Remember- capturer et relâcher, mes amis

introducing little bean

newest team roughrider recruit

george, your country needs you

luv this commercial, esp George's game face, lol.  We could use a little of his true grit now, thxsomuch BP, grrrrr.

things are shaping up nicely

I keep getting calls seeking to draw upon my extensive experience fishing the Ark caddis hatch, ie: when is it all gonna break loose? And what about this early-season runoff spiking the graphs, what'rewegonna do?

No worries! I just fired up the Hatchmaster 2010 and am pleased to report the happy convergence of stars, planets, tides, weather, runoff, reproductive urges of said caddis, and.... wait for it....

my planned fishing weekend 04/24!

But don't take my word for it- see for yourself (click to enlarge):

Being of scientific bent and to silence any skeptics out there (why do you hate Science, hmmmm?), I even tested the accuracy of the Hatchmaster 2010 software by adjusting the dates of my planned fishing excursion back a week to 5/2. The results were exactly the same! So you see, no need for handwringing over the anticipated dates of the imminent emergence, just know it awaits the arrival of yours truly on the river.

Who knew meteorology and entomology could be soooo simple!