Hi from Montana!

[BigSkyBassin]

Checking in from beautiful and bass filled, Northwest Montana.

 

I grew up in Wisconsin and was a bass thumbed hooligan most of my childhood (even had a trio of buddies that were known locally as "the bass thumbed hooligans" lol)

 

I moved to WA state after college and caught the steelhead bug hard, which eventually led me to fishing almost exclusively with spey gear (long 2 handed fly rods 12-15 footers!). 

 

My wife and I moved to Montana a couple years ago to escape the rapid societal decay of the coast, and still have access to world class hunting/fishing.

 

I spent the first couple of years here chasing trout with dry flies but have taken a hard turn back to chasing bass this summer after scooping my first boat, and man oh man has it been fun.

 

I've learned a ton from this forum as I've built my rod/reel/tackle arsenal back up and figured I should create an account and participate on the forum. I've made some lifelong buddies on hunting forums, guessing this forum is the same. Photo of my best fish of the summer caught deep cranking the outside weed edge in 20FOW...a technique I never tried until this year.

[Darren.]

Nice bass in that pic! Welcome aboard! 🤙

[A-Jay]

Hello and Welcome to Bass Resource ~

Nice Bass

A-Jay

[GaryH]

Welcome aboard… nice bass..

[Bird]

Welcome to the forum.

Montana is beautiful, enjoy.

[Log Catcher]

Hello and welcome to the forum.

[DogBone_384]

Hello, and welcome to BassResource from Boston!

[SC53]

Awesome. Where are you in MT? We had friends that lived in Libby. 

[JCfishing]

Welcome to the forums

[BigSkyBassin]

6 hours ago, SC53 said:

Awesome. Where are you in MT? We had friends that lived in Libby. 

We live in Kalispell! Libby area is awesome. I hunt over that way quite a bit.

[SC53]

How long have you lived there?

[BigSkyBassin]

9 minutes ago, SC53 said:

How long have you lived there?

3 years

[12poundbass]

Welcome to Bassresource!

[whitwolf]

Welcome!

[Backroad Angler]

Welcome bud!

[J._Bricker]

Hello @BigSkyBassin from Northern California, welcome to Bass Resource and the Forums!

 

[bowhunter63]

Welcome Aboard 

[GRiver]

Hi from the Sunshine State of Florida 

[king fisher]

On 10/8/2024 at 12:47 PM, BigSkyBassin said:

My wife and I moved to Montana a couple years ago to escape the rapid societal decay of the coast

I am from the Northwest and have many family members living on the coast.  My family is not part of, and I have not noticed or believe there is any rapid societal decay, and would appreciate you keeping your opinions on the matter to yourself.  By the way the owner of this site lives on the WA Coast, and as far as I no has no plans of fleeing the societal decay.  You could have said you moved to Montana to expand your hunting and fishing opportunities, and socialize with people of like interests without insinuating some how Montana has better people  or as you put it no societal decay.  I appreciate the fact that this site does not tolerate any political content.  I realize I am being hypocritical by replying to the this post in this way, that I have in fact broken the policy, and I apologize for my infraction.

[Glenn]

Welcome home! We're glad you're here.

[BigSkyBassin]

On 11/9/2024 at 9:38 AM, king fisher said:

I am from the Northwest and have many family members living on the coast.  My family is not part of, and I have not noticed or believe there is any rapid societal decay, and would appreciate you keeping your opinions on the matter to yourself.  By the way the owner of this site lives on the WA Coast, and as far as I no has no plans of fleeing the societal decay.  You could have said you moved to Montana to expand your hunting and fishing opportunities, and socialize with people of like interests without insinuating some how Montana has better people  or as you put it no societal decay.  I appreciate the fact that this site does not tolerate any political content.  I realize I am being hypocritical by replying to the this post in this way, that I have in fact broken the policy, and I apologize for my infraction.

Passive aggression like this reminds me of why we left. Being offended by someone you don't know, on a forum, is absolutely hilarious though.

 

If you think WA is doing well compared to other Western states, well...I don't know what to tell you. There's a reason people are leaving by the tens of thousands. Whether it's political or not...I said nothing of the sort, that was your insinuation.

 

Wish you the best and some thicker skin, holy cow!

 

[Glenn]

And now you know why we don't allow political comments of any kind here. 

 

And scene...