Montana Wild – The 1st Year

Well it’s officially one year since we started Montana Wild.  When we started this blog we didn’t know what we were doing or where we would take it, and its still not quite clear.  One thing sticks out vividly though, and that’s all the good times we had doing it.  I’m sure glad we did because we have a lot of great memories to look back on and had a lot of laughs along the way.  I guess I did have a vision of where it would hopefully take us though.  I figured that outdoor media was behind the trend of other adventure sports and what better way to make your passion into a career than to start documenting our escapades with photos and video.  So far it’s working out, and I’m pretty excited with the progress and the quality of work we produced in our first year.  We’ve made this a full time job and hope to not look back.  We’ve already surpassed our short term goals and were setting the bar even higher for 2012.  I think there’s been a noticeable progression since our first post and video.  In the next week we’ll have a post up that gives a recap of our first year and how far we’ve made it.

Today Travis and I decided that we’d celebrate the first year by hitting the river in hopes of logging some shots.  We left the house early and made our way to the river.  The weather wasn’t ideal for filming or fishing, but we were set on making the best of it.

After a few empty holes, I finally had a trout succumb to my trickery.  I could tell he was a good fish and he decided to take me for a ride.  The river was small and he decided he’d had enough of that pool for one day.  He slipped back into the rapids and I had to follow him back to the next small pocket of slow water.  With all the downed logs in this river I had to keep him on the correct side of the river to actually get another chance to net him.  After some awkward angles and a few tense moments I slipped my net under his fat belly and had myself a very respectable cutbow.

After a few camera shots we got him back into the water to be caught another day.

We fished the rest of the day and caught a healthy number of fish but nothing worth writing home about.  Hey it’s another day on the river and another blessing to be counted.  Tomorrow we’ll be back out and Travis is going to be running the rod and reel.  I’ll be running the Nikon and hopefully capturing some moments to be remembered.  Until then tight lines to ya.

-Zack