Fabulous Firsts

Paulina Pawlik reads ‘The Day the Crayons Quit’ to her daughter Layla Wellenstein during Hawthorne Elementary’s Fabulous Firsts day Thursday, wherein first-grader receive hardback books celebrating their introduction to reading.

Log Gulch Fire

Fabric Artist Ann Lauer

Montana Ave. Closed

Carroll College Soccer Season Openers

Tenkara Fly Fishing

Ankle deep in Little Prickly Pear Creek, Brad Hansen, Tenkara “Guru” at Crosscurrents Fly Shop in Helena sends a caddis stimulator gracefully onto pocket water under overhanging grass Tuesday Morning. Using the primitive method of Tenkara fishing, fisherman can access smaller streams usual to technical due to riparian overgrowth.

 Jennifer Harris ties on a parachute.

 Caleb Fey fishes Little Prickly Pear Creek using Tenkara fly fishing techniques Tuesday Morning.

 Fish Flop

 Jennifer Harris demonstrates a bow cast technique with a Tenkara rod, wherein she loads tension in the rod while holding the fly, then releases it towards a targeted location on the creek.

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