Serenity Now

Merry Christmas and happy Tying!

2008-12-12T12:57:00.001-08:00

Hunting Season 2008 (So Far......)

2008-11-07T09:30:00.000-08:00

Fish are rising up like birds!

2008-10-24T08:22:00.001-07:00

Some times you find something so cool you end up using it every day and telling all your friends about it. Well the latest, not relay the latest I have been using it for a year or so now is Seeqpod. As well as a cool little tool that uses the seeqpod engine Mixwits. Both are cool as hell to build up a playlist and let it rip! As soon as my webpage gets up which should be in a week or two I will some good playlists to wrap bugs by! Also as a eary adopter of the seeqpod love have aquired my favorite fishing shit and have become famous!

The Diggity Dank

2008-09-08T17:48:00.000-07:00

As I sat that Bozeman airport waiting to meet a good friend and his buddy, who would soon be considered a friend as well, I got to thinking who is this guy coming in and why am I sitting at a airport at midnight waiting for him. Well he is a good friend. More then that he is a Fishing Friend. Fishing Friends are a rare bread. You don't need to swap emails or phone calls every day or even every year, but when you meet one, a good one, they will be friends for life. Dank is one of the few I consider a dear friend, a fishing friend. Dank, cool name right, got off the plane a little fried by the 90 degree Michigan heat and a little goofy eyed from the lack of sleep, with a soon to be good fishing friend Doug. Dank is a man that I can only explane as obsessed with anything finned, be it in a bay, a river, under the ice, or on a fly, glow spoons, or live bait, the man gets it done and done right. Dank lives back in Frankfort, MI and loves to chase steelhead, salmon, pike, perch....etc.. Like I said the man is obsessed. Anyway Dank and I meet about 6 years ago on steelhead trip to MI with the now famous PBJ Jennings. Great trip good fishing and good friends. Dank and I have talked off and on and tried to hook up here and there but finely this trip we got to get tougher and toss back a few PBR tall boys and go fishing. Doug , Dank's friend that came off the plane with him, is kind of quite guy who has ended up loving by dog May. I should day that Doug seems to be a quite guy, that is until you have him fishing 7x out of the boat in a 10 mile head wind with a # 22 parachute BWO. He wanted to go to 8x but Dank talked him out of it!! The three of us and May headed out in the drizzling rain to see what the mighty Yellowstone was up to. A little slow, lots of wind and some time spent perfecting the whitey strike and the day was done. A good day, and would every say a great day!All in all I wish I was headed to the horn with these two great guys but life is keeping me here and I am sure when they get back to Bozeman on Saturday I will here many more great stories and most will start wiht "Did Jeff every tell you the one about...." Thanks to both of you for the great day and lets plan on doing it many more times.

Who has one thumb and likes the Yellowstone?

Can you say "Cowboy up F@#$%"

The Dankerd strikes again

Right where he was supposed to be

"See dank you hold them out like this so the look bigger!"

A Great Day!

A Very Very good day

Sticking Pigs - Collins Family Style

2008-08-28T07:55:00.001-07:00

Some days are better then others!Out of boat shot!

Campbell Keeping the PeaceCampbell keeping the peace

Campbell keeping the peace
Madison's first fish
My Girls
Picture me Roll'n
Kiss Kiss

GOOD OL BOYS VOL 1

2008-03-14T14:45:00.001-07:00

create your own!

..The Collins Brother From South Western Montana...

2008-02-15T09:03:00.000-08:00

This is the final cut for a commercial that my brother and I shot on the Yellowstone River out side of Livingstone MT, Commercial shot by Clay Croft @ Great day spent on a great river with great friends

Day 4

2008-02-11T13:16:00.001-08:00

day 3

2008-02-11T13:06:00.001-08:00

Day 2

2008-02-11T12:32:00.001-08:00

Day 0ne Team BBT 02-02-08

2008-02-11T12:13:00.001-08:00

Fish of the Bighorn

2008-02-06T13:56:00.001-08:00

My Baby Girls

2008-01-31T14:46:00.001-08:00

2008-01-21T15:41:00.000-08:00

well another day of tying and hanging wiht the boys in the basement ! to much fun!!!!

2008-01-18T09:39:00.001-08:00

These are the flies of our lives! or at least mine... I have spent a lot of time at the bench the last couple of months and this is just what made it to the camera. Tight lines!

Merry Christmas from the Family!!

2007-12-13T08:39:00.001-08:00

This one goes out to all my good friends that i know will be celeberating Christmas this way. Wish i was down in Fort smith with ya!!

2007-12-13T08:29:00.001-08:00

http://www.canadiantubeflies.com

If i get any money this christmas this is where it will be headed to. A good friend of mine has sliped his way back into my life and well he always seems to get me back it to the need to see new things in flyfishing and tying! They truely broke the mold when it came to uncle bad habit! love the guy!!!

Well Dream Season 07 has started with lots of bangs!

2007-10-18T15:37:00.001-07:00

Spent the last two weekends trying to get some goats. well last weekend it was done, with a little help form my dad and a cool as hell land owner, DigDug and my self got off a couple of shots and loaded these bad boys in the back of the family fun wagon!! Not to sure I will shot one next year , Then kind of smell!

A Little Lilly For Ya

2007-10-18T15:35:00.001-07:00

Got to see them 2 shows before this on and it was fun as HELL!!

Widespread Panic "Little Lilly" from Coloartist on Vimeo.

PanicStream.com - Widespread Panic Streaming Audio, Setlists, Photos, and Tour Info

2007-10-11T12:45:00.000-07:00

PanicStream.com - Widespread Panic Streaming Audio, Setlists, Photos, and Tour Info

just some pictures from the past year or so with family and friends!

2007-09-14T08:44:00.000-07:00

2007-09-11T08:55:00.000-07:00

Well it is that time of year now when it just seems wrong to be doing anything but sitting in the woods some where and being still! I am lucky enough to have family that loves to hunt and fish and have family that provides areas to do so. These are just a few of the many many pics of last years hunts and trust me each one has a great story to go along with it!! Here is to good friends, family and the fall!!

Cousins Hunting together will always have stories to tell!!

The Mighty hunter DigDug. This was one of the funnest and fun hunts I have been on in a long time!

And well the nicest buck of the year was a team effort between Groovis and myself. a great hunt and i hope to get to set in the stand again this year for round 2!

A little fun in the sun

2007-09-09T20:35:00.000-07:00

Well this it the ruff draft of all the hard hard work of last wednesday! A great day and some good burbon as well . All you locals look for it soon on your local Bozeman stations. We could be the next Dell, " dude your getting a dell" or a travolicity troll. just remember you knew me when!!

2007-09-06T10:20:00.000-07:00

Well the day started out as a early one, 5:30 am at Rockfords Coffee . Clay and Ryan where all ready there waiting as I rolled in minutes late. Groovis on the other hand was about 20 Min late due to the fact that he is still trying to get his sleep adjusted to the newest member of the family. We were off the the races and hit the access around 7:15 am and unloaded the boats and dumped the gear. We then decided that Serenity Now would be the work horse for the day and not get her moment in the spot light. This due to the fact that she is 2 ft longer then my brothers calcka craft and all the seats and benches can be taken out and rearranged. So all the gear fit nice. We spent about 2 hours at the access getting some nice shots and then off we went down the might Yellowstone. The day was filled with movie quotes mostly it seems for Blades of Glory and Supper Bad! Good times, Good times. The fishing seemed to be a little slow so there was plenty of time for all of us to better get to know each other. As the day went on it seemed me imminent that the rain would catch up to us on some level. We did get one nice cutt on film that for some reason was jumping tail first. Go figure. We then stoped for some good dog time and good some good "Insert" footage of the dogs swimming and some fine shots of my hands as i tied on some flies . Now we knew the rain was on. As we switched boats for so the pros could capture some for footage we decided that the SW .357 needed to be tested . It worked!! well the rain did get us at the take out and we had a great time with good guys on a great river!ps note to self. If you are bald and ware a visor. always use sun block!

2007-09-04T16:08:00.000-07:00

Just a start to the stickers on her stern....