Winter greetings, Extravagant Ones!
As depicted so elegantly in the attached pictures taken here at Extravaganza Headquarters this mid-January morning (the beginning of my 63rd year, by the way [can you envision a better place to do so?!?]), 30 degree temperatures are keeping all that is important to us (namely the higher elevation snow pack) on ice for our upcoming adventures and, pleasantly so, as the Bitterroot River Basin snow pack average--our traditional snowfall barometer--is, at last count right at 102% of normal.
It is that snow pack that carries and preserves your Extravaganza 2009 fishing dreams throughout the early part of the year, as that high-mountain snow will be the subject of future melting and the resultant "spring runoff" which, in turn, provides the water flow that cleanses our rivers and spurs the bug life within, which, in yet further turn, "post runoff" (right when we fish, gang), sees the fish teeming alive in new surroundings with a veritable "Free Joe's Eats" sign lit up. Resultantly, our fishing bounty where the fishing is so good that even you rookies out there will come away saying with a (now traditional) post-Extravaganza swagger, "Wow, I can't believe that I saw what I saw, did what I did, and caught as many wonderful, healthy native fish as I did--and I was only a 'rookie', just wait until next year!"
Take a moment and enjoy with me these quiet photographed Montana moments of icicles dangling from the front door's eaves; winter's mask proudly atop recently cut logs; and with bronze eagles and lamps bravely weathering the solemn beauty of it all. Indeed, as you can see, this is one of my favorite times of the year in these parts and why Montana truly "matters"!
Best to all from the scene of it all,
Rock Creek Ron
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