I'm still here...watch this space.

Hello world.

I am going to keep this blog alive. I hereby renew my commitment to it.

Since my post last January, I have moved (family in tow) back to South Wales and I have been doing a fair amount of fishing on the Taff (including some of its wonderful tributaries) the Rhymney, Monnow, and the Usk. I have a few posts in mind about those rivers...but they will have to wait for now as the fishing is just too darn good to put down.

I'm planning a big 4 week trip to Montana to hit several rivers in summer 2011. That sounds like a long way away! But then I do indeed find (as did Roger Waters) that 'every year is getting shorter.' In some ways, there isn't enough time to plan for an opportunity like this.

On the other hand, maybe I don't want to plan this too much. The whole concept of the trip fits well with the theme of this blog - I want to wander around Montana with a fly rod, a tent, a vise, and a Good Book. So I guess the most pertinent question at this point in time is about the extent to which I want those wanderings to be structured or not. I'm not yet ready to make this moral choice.

Anyway, I'm going to feature the planning and results of that trip on this blog as it develops. I think it will be a main theme for the next couple of years and I hope it could be a good resource for others who are remotely planning similar trips to Big Sky country.

I'm also heading out to Colorado at the end of August and plan to do some fishing on the Platte and the Blue, so I hope to have some stories to tell from that as well.

So, watch this space.

Mike