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The holiday weekend might be behind us, but for anglers around the West the second weekend in September is a holiday in its own right: it’s the Jackson Hole One Fly Event. Since 1986, anglers have vied for the bragging rights of being named the One Fly Champion. Though it may sound simple in concept, anyone who has ever spent time on the river can understand the challenge of having to catch multiple fish using only one fly all day.

The event is not just for bragging rights; the Jackson Hole One Fly has raised millions of dollars over the last 30 years to “fund educational, conservation, preservation and rehabilitation projects for the benefit of trout populations primarily in the Snake River Basin.”

Secrets for the Jackson Hole One Fly — Live Water Properties 2015 One Fly Team

Live Water Properties Vice President John Merritt has captained the Live Water One Fly Team for the past six years. While he can’t divulge all strategies for success, here are his top secrets for the Jackson Hole One Fly.

Take a spare fly rod. If you break your first rod, you absolutely will need a back up or your day will be over, even if you have managed to keep your one fly.
Constantly re-tie your leader to your fly knot and check your leader. Casting and keeping one fly all day can be difficult and checking your knots can be the difference in keeping your bug or riding home in despair.
Have a net with you at all times. Many flies are lost during the fight with the trout, and you never know when the “monster,” high-scoring trout is going to eat. Save yourself some trouble and have a net with you.
Understand recent fishing reports and pick the right fly considering flows, stretch of river, weather conditions. This may sound obvious, but there is nothing worse than picking a bad fly! If the dark clouds are rolling in, perhaps throw a streamer. If the Snake Drake hatch has been solid, a large mayfly could be the ticket.
Have fun! This is a wonderful event for a wonderful cause. Every participant should be thrilled to be a part of it, even if you lose your fly at the boat ramp before the day has even begun!

To see all rules for the 2016 One Fly Event or view the competing teams visit jacksonholeonefly.com. Good luck out there!

Big Game Hunting Training with Mountain Athlete

“Respect the sport, respect the mountain,” is the mantra of Rob Shaul, owner and trainer at Mountain Athlete in Jackson Hole. For over 10 years Shaul and Mountain Athlete have trained world-class athletes and mountaineers. This experience has helped him develop an 8-week Big Game Hunting Training Plan to prepare hunters both physically for the sport and mentally for the mountain elements.

One of his most demanding plans, the Big Game Hunting Plan focuses on eccentric strength, endurance, intense core training and also includes weekend “mini-events” to further your training. It won’t just make you “gym strong” it will prepare you for the outdoors.

Shaul shared a few training tips with us from his Big Game Hunting Plan. The full program is available at mountainathlete.com.

Strength Training

Hunting also requires great strength, not just for packing an animal out but for hiking downhill and uphill. Packing an animal requires incredible core strength and hiking downhill requires eccentric leg strength. While often neglected, it is the downhill that is the most grueling and what makes people fatigued for the next day.

The Quadzilla Complex is a signature Mountain Athlete series that emphasizes eccentric strength.

Calves are one of the first leg muscles to give out. Calf raise intervals will help strengthen these muscles and give power to your legs.

The sandbag getup is an excellent move for strengthening the core. The entire program also features a core-circuit to hit all angles of the core with an emphasis on the low back.

Endurance Training

Walking for days in steep mountain terrain with a weighted backpack requires endurance and Shaul points to mode specific training as the best way to increase your endurance. He uses swimmers to illustrate the importance of mode specific training. Swimmers are incredible endurance athletes, but that endurance does not necessarily translate to endurance for running. Similarly with hunting, if you want to endure in mountain terrain, you will need to train for the elements you will encounter.

Shaul’s Rucking Techniqe is one of the mode specific endurance elements in his program.

Shaul’s big game hunting program is available for purchase online. It requires little equipment, only a backpack, sandbags and dumbbells. It’s never too late to start training, and you will be thanking yourself when the season begins. Hunting is all about the experience, hence the saying “the thrill of the hunt.” Take Shaul’s advice and “let the training become part of the experience.”

“Everyone thinks they have the best dog. And none of them are wrong” W.R. Purche. We are very fortunate at Live Water Properties to be the owners of such great dogs. They’re more than just pets to us, they live the Live Water lifestyle with us, joining us for days on the river, bird hunting, or herding cows in the pasture, our dogs exude the fishing, hunting, and ranching lifestyle just as much as each of our agents and employees do (we’re sure at least one of these dogs might have a conservation bone to them if they could talk). To celebrate National Dog Day, we wanted to introduce you to the “Dogs of Live Water.”

Gus Allen – Owner Nick Allen, Sales Associate – Bend, Oregon

Gus is an 8-year-old English Setter. He loves to run and hunt birds, but around the house he is actually pretty lazy. His next favorite activities are riding around in the front seat of the truck and chasing the abundant chipmunk population here in Central Oregon.

Carl Feuz – Owner Emily Feuz, Marketing Director – Jackson, Wyoming

Carl is a 3-year-old Border Collie/Australian shepherd. A working dog at heart, Carl loves to be on the run, whether it’s riding horses with Emily and herding roping steers in the arena. If there is a tennis ball in the area, Carl will find it and seek out anyone willing to throw it to him. The Jackson Hole lifestyle fits Carl well; as he loves to join on fishing trips, trail runs, paddle boarding and backcountry skiing.

June Cox – Owner Wright Cox, Video Marketing Director – Jackson, Wyoming

June is a 10-month-old British Lab from Warrior, Alabama. She loves catching trout, eating everything in sight, chasing her Frisbee and backcountry skiing in the wintertime. If you scratch her belly, she will love you until the day you die. June has joined Wright on most ranch visits this summer, where squirrels and birds are plentiful.

Kit Jansen – Owner Craig Jansen, Montana Managing Broker – Bozeman, Montana

Kit is a 7-year-old English setter who is always ready to look for Huns, pheasants, sharptail or mountain grouse. She stays sharp by pointing robins, magpies and a few bunnies in the back yard. She thinks of herself as a hard core hunting dog, although she does not seem all that “hard” when she is curled up and cuddling on the couch with Craig’s wife or kids.

Logan ‘Skydog’ Hartley – Owner Brian Hartley, Colorado Associate Broker – Denver, Colorado

Logan is 10-year-old Labrador Retriever from Montana. His nickname ‘Skydog’ is a nod to Duane Allman, one of the greatest guitar players of all time. He’s a gentle soul who has never met a Frisbee he couldn’t catch or landed trout he didn’t want to take a closer look at. A frequent partner on Brian’s ranch visits, Logan could rival Michael Phelps with his swimming prowess and is nearly impossible to keep out of rivers and lakes. While he has retrieved some birds in his day he prefers the summer trout bum life to the early mornings in a duck blind. Born in Montana, raised in Jackson, WY for 5 years and now living in Colorado, Logan has an affinity for snow.

Pinder Sprite Maher – Owner Alex and Macye Maher, Owners of Live Water Properties – Jackson, Wyoming

Pinder is an 11-month-old yellow lab from Diamond R Kennel in Bozeman, Montana. She has been a loyal and sweet dog from day one, learning from her older sister—the black lab named Katie Sue. She’s addicted to training and loves retrieving dummies. She’s great with Alex and Macye’s daughters (Harper and Leisel), and she is especially devoted to her “boy” – Beckett. After completing her first river trip on the South Fork, Pinder needed as much rest as the rest of the family and definitely smelled fishy.

Ellie Shouse – Owner Jeff Shouse, Broker – Bozeman, Montana

Ellie is a Montana born 6-year-old Brittany Spaniel that is totally impassioned when it comes to chasing upland game birds – a good thing, since her Dad is of similar mind. She also loves riding in the back of the drift boat, or anything else that involves being in the field or on the stream. She is a constant and loving companion.

As a ranch broker in the rocky mountain west I am fortunate to spend a lot of time on great ranches. The scenery and wildlife are a unique bonus to my job. Seeing a bear is particularly exciting, whether black or grizzly, giant boar or little cub. I’m happy to be a new member of the Bear Trust International, a conservation group grounded in science with a goal to preserve, enhance and protect bear populations and their habitat. The following article highlights a recent topic, Grizzly bear introduction and federal protection. If you share my passion for the Bears of the World I encourage you to join and support this fine group. Craig Jansen, Associate Broker

Are Grizzly Bears in Yellowstone Ready for Delisting

Montana-based non-profit, Bear Trust International, wants to help everyone determine this answer for themselves. How? The same way that grizzly bear scientists do. Look at the scientific data. Not sure if you can analyze the data? No problem! Bear Trust International has graphed all the data for you. See below.

First, a little background: Grizzly bears in the lower 48 states were listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act in 1975. At that time, grizzly bears were placed under federal protection with the US Fish and Wildlife Service.

It’s important to remember that the GOAL of the Endangered Species Act is to recover listed species so that they no longer need federal protection and the management of the listed species can be returned to state wildlife agencies.

In 1982, the first grizzly bear recovery plan was created, which identified 6 grizzly bear recovery zones:

Each grizzly bear population in each of the 6 grizzly bear recovery zones can be evaluated for recovery, delisted, or relisted independently. At question today is the grizzly bear population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. Is it ready for delisting? Well, how do you KNOW when any listed species is ready for delisting? Answer: look at the recovery plan, it provides a road map to recovery with science-based recovery criteria that must be met before a threatened or endangered species can be delisted.

For the grizzly bear population in Yellowstone, the grizzly bear scientists determined over 30 years ago that there are 3 science-based demographic recovery criteria. When these 3 recovery criteria are met, then the grizzly bear population in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem is supposed to be delisted. All 3 of these recovery criteria were met in year 2008. How do we know? Look at the data.

For example, let’s look at Recovery Criterion # 1: There must be at least 500 individual grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, and this number cannot fall below 500 for 2 consecutive years. There must also be at least 48 females with cubs and this number cannot fall below 48 for 2 consecutive years.

Bear Trust asked the US Fish and Wildlife Service for the data and then Bear Trust graphed the data for the first part of Recovery Criterion #1 below:

The data clearly show that at least 500 bears were in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem by 2007, and by 2008 the number did not fall below 500 for 2 consecutive years. Want to see graphs of data for all parts of all 3 recovery criteria for grizzly bears in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem? It’s easy to do! Visit: http://beartrust.org/grizzly-bears-in-yellowstone-proposed-delisting-by-usfws

At Bear Trust, we value the roles that science and hunting play in effective wildlife conservation. Everything Bear Trust does is grounded firmly in sound science.

Want to help Bear Trust ensure long-term, sustainable populations of wild bears through science-based education, wild bear research, habitat conservation, and conservation policy? Please contact Bear Trust’s Executive Director, Dr. Melissa Reynolds-Hogland:

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A new feature by Robert Dean recently published in Anglers Club Magazine references an article by the Harvard Medical School’s Department of Neurobiology which digs deeper into the science behind the calming, de-stressing act of fly fishing, and what many anglers have known all along: fly-fishing is good for you. While many of us who have had the pleasure of standing knee deep in a river or stream steadily casting to rising trout can attest, there is a sense of tranquility and peace that comes from the experience. Is it the serene surroundings that put our stresses at bay, or perhaps the aesthetic white noise of the babbling water, or the rhythmic cadence of the casts themselves that allow us to detach and relax?

Upon reading this article for the first time I was immediately reminded of one of my favorite quotes on the topic of fishing, “Many men go fishing all their lives without knowing that is not fish they are after.” – Henry David Thoreau

NEUROBIOLOGISTS SAY FLY-FISHING IS GOOD FOR YOU

Fly-Fishing is Good for You by Robert Deen

It doesn’t take a brain surgeon to know that fly-fishing is good for you. Or does it?

The Harvard Medical School’s Department of Neurobiology recently published an article that compared fly-fishing to yoga in its ability to relax the brain and combat the ill effects of every day stress.

“What is it about this so-called quiet sport, with its incantation of rod and fly, river, and nature, a sport of both stealth and strategy, that helps to lessen stress and calm the brain?” asked the article the Harvard Mahoney Neuroscience Institute Letter.

Herbert Benson, Mind Body Medicine Professor at Harvard Medical School, says humankind has learned over millennia how to turn off stress by “breaking the train of everyday thinking.”

Fly-Fishing is Good for You

“What better example of this than fly-fishing,” says Benson, “with the repetitive back-and-forth motion of the rod and line and fly? You’re focusing on where that fly is going to land on the water and that breaks the train of everyday thought.”

The negative physical impacts of day-to-day stress in modern society are well documented. More recently scientists have identified the so-called “relaxation response” — the purposeful initiation of a physical state of deep rest, one that changes a person’s physical and emotional responses to stress. When practiced, the relaxation response slows down breathing rate, relaxes muscles, and reduces blood pressure.

Doctor’s Orders

Yoga has long been the prime example of an activity based on the purposeful pursuit of a state of relaxation. The Harvard neurobiologists compare fly-fishing to yoga, with its repetitive casting motions and contemplative state. A fly fisherman is removed from “the real world”, surrounded by nature, and disconnected from phones and electronic devices.

Fly-fishing has also been compared to meditation, in that fly-fishers perform a simple, repeated task, often for hours on end. “The motion of fly-fishing is part and parcel of the activity itself and may contribute to its calming effect,” says Benson.

More than 38 million Americans fly fish. A survey by the Outdoor Foundation found that 38 percent of Americans who say they are considering taking up fly fishing will do so as means to relax and reduce stress.

The Harvard article also points out a study involving combat veterans that found participants had significant reductions in stress and post-traumatic stress disorder symptoms and improvements in sleep quality after participating in a fly-fishing retreat.

And you thought you were fly-fishing just for the fun of it. Now you have scientific proof that going fishing Saturday instead of getting those home chores done is the right decision – after all, you’re only doing it for your health.

This article by Robert Deen was originally published on Anglers Club

#FindYourPark this summer and celebrate the National Park Service’s 100th year on August 25. At Live Water Properties we are fortunate to be headquartered in Jackson Hole, the gateway to Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks. Not only do we get to sell spectacular properties around these two parks, but we also have incredible real estate properties around the National Parks in the West. This summer, take up the park service’s invitation to #findyourpark and if you decide you never want to leave, Live Water Properties will help you #findyourhomeinthepark (well next to the park).

Grand Teton National Park

Grand Teton National Park is the closest national park to our headquarters in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. The park is named for the Grand Teton, the highest peak in the park at 13,770 feet. The 310,000-acre park is part of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, one of the most complete ecosystems in the world, complete with wildflower meadows, glacial lakes, alpine peaks and dense forests. One can see grizzly and black bears, gray wolves, coyotes, bison, bald eagles, pronghorn and elk when visiting. Grand Teton is also a great park to vacation with families due the variety of activities such as hiking, trail running, mountain biking, fly fishing, paddle boarding and kayaking.

The Flat Creek Fishing Estate is situated 6 miles south of Jackson Hole, on Flat Creek, a beloved fishery among locals. This 34.89-acres estate provides excellent access to the town’s resort amenities including shopping, art galleries, museums, outdoor outfitters and fine dining. The national parks and the ample amount of nearby public lands that make up 97% of the valley create endless opportunities for outdoor recreation during all seasons.

Yellowstone National Park

Established in 1872, Yellowstone National Park is America’s first national park. It is also the largest National Park, consisting of 2,219,789 acres, larger than Delaware and Rhode Island combined. It is believed the park was named for the yellow rocks one sees when overlooking the Grand Canyon of Yellowstone. Sitting atop one of the world’s largest calderas, Yellowstone is home to more geysers and hot springs than anywhere in the world. In fact, 50% of all the world’s hydrothermal features are in Yellowstone, the most famous being Old Faithful. In addition to the hydrothermal features, Yellowstone is also known for its incredible variety of wildlife.

Yellowstone is mainly in Wyoming but also spans into Idaho and Montana. With offices in each state, Live Water Properties has excellent options near every entrance.

Duck Creek Cabin at Yellowstone National Park is located north of West Yellowstone, Montana. This is truly a one-of-a-kind offering: the property itself is approximately 100 yards away from Yellowstone National Park. This 12-acre sporting retreat enjoys private access to trophy fishing on Duck Creek and Duck Creek Lake. The property is complete with a 3,525 sqft main house, guesthouse, helicopter pad, onsite angling opportunities and the most fabulous backyard in the world.

Duck Creek Preserve at Henry’s Lake is located in Island Park, Idaho, a 29-mile drive to Yellowstone. Comprised of 160 deeded acres, and protected by a conservation easement with The Nature Conservancy, Duck Creek Preserve is nestled at the mouth of the majestic Centennial Mountain Range. Known as the crown jewel in the “Golden Circle of Trout”, Henry’s Lake is one of the premier trout fishing lake destinations in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.

The Wapiti Lodge is conveniently located approximately 30 miles east of the entrance to Yellowstone National Park and 20 miles west of the historic western town of Cody, Wyoming. Situated in a spectacular setting on 4.68 acres, the Wapiti Lodge on the Shoshone River offering is a unique opportunity to own an exceptional lodging operation so close to Yellowstone.

Rocky Mountain National Park

Rocky Mountain National Park is 415 square miles of dramatic mountain vistas, high mountain lakes and is teeming with wildlife. It is important habitat to elk, mule deer, moose, bighorn sheep, coyotes, black bears, eagles and hawks. While summer offers prime wildlife viewing opportunities and colorful wildflower-filled vistas, the fall is equally beautiful with golden-filled scenery, the chance to hear bugling elk and to watch the rut. Rocky Mountain National Park is also great for hiking. For the adventurous, Long Peak is the highest peak in the park at 14,249 feet. The 16-mile exposed trek is not for the faint of heart, but it offers unsurpassed views from the top.

Walden Hollow on the Colorado River is located just a 20 minute drive from Rocky Mountain National Park’s Grand Lake Entrance. The 40-acres property is the ideal family getaway that offers excellent fishing. A perfectly placed log home overlooks the river. Elk, deer and moose as well as a wide range of bird life often frequent Walden Hollow.

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