Westslope Publishing

09/14/2022

Trout fishing during archery season. Another hard-earned westslope with , , and .

05/30/2022

Apparently Yellowstone Lake refroze for the fishing opener? A buddy sent me pics from over a week ago showing about 50 feet of open water… What looks like open water in this pic is thick slush.

11/24/2021

... a late addition to your fly-fishing holiday gift guides: my recent book "Tributary." This unique and well-reviewed book covers a myriad of topics around fly fishing in Montana, Wyoming, and Yellowstone National Park. And you don't have to worry that they already have it 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️😂.

Tributary: Fishing the Northern Rockies' Periphery

11/02/2021

Montana soul food.

With Nancy's AND Joe's both permanently shuttered, where have you been getting your pasties?

Truzzolino Tamales

10/05/2021

Here's a timely old blog post, for those in the Rocky Mountain West, that's been doing well on the Googles recently about a hard-to-come-by large mayfly called the Timpanoga hecuba...

Montana fly fishing blog, Bozeman, Montana, fly fishing blog, flyfishing writer, fly fishing photography, Joshua Bergan, Josh Bergan

09/07/2021

Not good:

A three-year-old female cisco discovered in August of 2019 was determined to have been born in Yellowstone Lake.

07/11/2021

Slurrrrp.

05/31/2021

I guess I shouldn’t have picked a fight if I didn’t want my ass kicked... Satisfactory start to “summer”.

05/07/2021

I’m ready to support Suffer Out Loud on May 6, 2021 during Give Big Gallatin Valley. Learn more about Suffer Out Loud and all the other organizations participating in .

04/26/2021

A unique view of the Lower Madison River, beneath the purview of the Bridger Mountains.

04/09/2021

Just a reminder that my new book Tributary is available for free right now through Kindle Unlimited (or to purchase w/o KU)! Quality fly-fishing reading to get you through until Mother's Day caddis!

Tributary: Fishing the Northern Rockies' Periphery

03/08/2021

I had to do something to fill my time over the past few months… Thrilled to bring you my newest book, "Tributary: Fishing the Northern Rockies’ Periphery."

Tributary is an 8.5x11, 290-page compendium of my published fishing writing and photography from 2006-2020, and is a fun and easy insiders’ supplement to the how-to and where-to guidebooks. Flooded with photos, it provides a fresh look at fly fishing culture, science, locations, and techniques in Montana and Wyoming (and maybe even a little about Idaho). It’s fly-fishing edutainment at its recycledest!

Not because I think there’s such demand for this content; I just wanted to keep busy during the COVID winter, and that morphed into experimenting with some automated print-on-demand platforms, etc.

The e-book is free for a limited time on Amazon Kindle Unlimited, or for $4.99 without Unlimited. The print version (black and white) is available now on Amazon for $14.99, and a full-color print version will be available soon from Barnes & Noble! If you read and enjoy, please leave a review!

Click here to check it out: tinyurl.com/Tributary-Bergan

Tell your brother, your sister, and your mama too!

01/08/2021

Did you miss the boat? Interesting stuff on booming boat sales from Angling Trade magazine.

Think the Boom is over? Ha… try to buy a boat. 0 By Angling Trade on 01/05/2021 Industry News, Trend Data Eugene Buchanan of Paddling Life recently wrote about the explosive growth Johnson Outdoors experienced with its watercraft last year as the pandemic drove people toward water in droves. “Jo...

12/25/2020

A special (on a Friday): Christmas Edition. Pa rum pum pum pum and fa-la-la-la-la, la-la-la-la!

Ernest Schwiebert, probably best known today for his treatises on entomology, was also a gifted storyteller. “A River for Christmas,” which appeared in the Late Season 1978 issue of Fly Fisherman magazine, is a response of sorts to Roderick Haig-Browns’ Fisherman’s Winter. It details how the fishing changed in Chile after the unrest following the Allende election of 1970, and the big fish Schwiebert managed. Interestingly, six out of the eight pages of this article are fully text – something that would not fly with today’s readership. This story would later appear in Schwiebert’s well-reviewed book of the same title.

Excerpt: “The fresh log started to burn brightly, and I laughed softly when Dufflocq poured more cognac. ‘What’s funny?’ he asked.
‘Nothing!’ I smiled. ‘Just thinking about what a fine present the Cumilahue would make – and about getting a river for Christmas!’”

12/01/2020

(Takes a bow) 🤗😋

Autumn in Yellowstone: Fewer People, Bigger Trout

11/11/2020

Here's to finding ways to cope in difficult times. These Montana servicemen and women used fly fishing, even though they were in stationed in Iraq. Thanks to all our military members for making it possible for us to keep fishing at home.

An article I wrote for the Bozeman Daily Chronicle in 2007.