Fly fishing – Occidentalist

Exploring the Green Mountain National Forest, 2022

Post author:Occidental
Post published:2022-11-17
Post category:Truck Camping Vermont
Post comments:2 Comments

After staying pretty local enjoying the fall colors we were able to escape for an overnight to the Green Mountain National Forest. The Green Mountain National Forest is Vermont’s only national forest and it was high on the list to check out, since larger areas of public land are pretty hard to come by in Vermont. We also had the Waybury Inn on the list of things to see. The Waybury (the outside) is the Inn in the show “Newhart” owned by the Loudens and known on the show as the Stratford Inn. Since we took on the new profession as innkeepers we’ve been watching old Newhart episodes and wanted to go see the Stratford in person. It’s isn’t white anymore, but otherwise it’s the Stratford.

(more…)

Winter Camping, 2022

Post author:Occidental
Post published:2022-03-18
Post category:Exploring Fishing Truck Camping
Post comments:0 Comments

Now that winter (meteorological winter) has passed it is time for a quick roundup of a few trips we were able to pull off in the last days of January and the month of February. It's been a goal to get out winter camping and in fact we hope to get in camping trips all 12 months this year. Ana Reservoir We had quite a long stretch of sunny warm weather. Why not go fishing?…

Forks of the John Day, 2021, Part 1

Post author:Occidental
Post published:2021-05-20
Post category:Exploring Fishing
Post comments:2 Comments

The John Day River is the longest undammed river in Oregon. We were able to get out and enjoy a few pieces of it this spring. Our first stop was the South Fork, catching up to it flowing north toward Dayville. The South Fork is a decent sized stream, especially during spring runoff, surrounded by a picturesque canyon through most of it's run before it spills into the main fork of the John Day. Coincidentally,…