Winter Montana Images (1 of 2)

Greetings from Montana, Fellow E-11ers!!

 

Keeping with tradition, your Hostess With the Mostess, Kocktail Kathy, and I are back here at Extravaganza Headquarters to welcome the new year in with élan.  Upon our arrival, we hooked up for lunch with Montana Matters painter Sven Lindauer (Sven did the master MM painting that adorns the campaign’s literature, the original of which now proudly hangs in our Blackfoot House) to pick up a commissioned painting of Ma’am, (y)our Extravaganza mascot, which now proudly hangs in our Rock Creek living room.  It is always fun to compare the original photo with the finished art, and the attached two pics do just that—well done, Friend Sven!!

 

This is the first of two emails that I will forward your way this chilly Montana Monday—the balance of the attached photos tell the tale of chill that greets these climes this time of year—temperatures are set to go into the minus category before the week’s end.   As shown in the next set to come your way, Montana has been blessed by an abundance of snow this winter.  In fact, this winter currently ranks as having the seventh highest snowfall in recorded Montana history but, as our Outfitter John “The Great But Propaneless” Gould of Double Up Outfitters reminded me on the phone just moments ago, “it is what happens in May that dictates what will happen to our June and July Extravaganza fishing.”  That being said, you need a winter snow pack to have a fun-off water source and I regard the current plethora of whiteness to be nothing short of money in the bank for E-11.  We shall see what we shall see, and, as we do each year, closely monitor what Mother Nature has in store for us this fishing year.

 

Warm winter wishe to each of you from the blessed scene of it all,

 

Rock Creek Ron

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