Early Morning Freestone Pimp.

What is the EMFP?

The “Early Morning Freestone Pimps” are a group of anglers committed to the environmental concerns over our wild resources, and the passion and commitment to obtaining…. oops wrong group……..let me rephrase…

It means nothing, and everything…. All at once.

We have rules about being a Pimp.
We love to fish.
We love to take a road trip, and fish.
We love to fish early, unless we sleep in.
We enjoy a beer or a sip of the harder stuff.
We love gravy.
We love to give each other a ton of grief.
We have fun throwing a fly, to whatever.
We impress the ladies; however there are never ladies around, so that is speculation. But we would like to think we impress the ladies.


Our late buddy, Ben Kapp is the creator and Godfather.
There are only a few Original Gangsters- Me, Mike, Jay Johnson.

There are maybe a half a dozen others… maybe. They have earned the right to be an “EMFP”. They are allright in our book.

If you see a sticker, come say hi, and give us a beer.
Or buy us dinner.
Or just be yourself.

PS.... My Name is Mike Gamby. I like long walks in the park, cold hot dogs, and spooning.
I am tired of this blog, and all this "steelhead" talk... They dont exist. It is like the unicorn. or maybe because I SUCK at steelhead fishing.

But I do love me some trout... so Mike let me in here, so I can talk about trout. And the EMFP.


















You better listen up now!

Booty Call or a Morning Swinging a Fly?

Today I was posed a question I thought I would never need to ask myself. Do I drift and swing flies in the morning or meet up with an eager gal for a booty call this evening? Being married for the last ten years, this was an easy answer, but today with my wife finding greener pastures and less steelhead in the freezer it has become more confusing. Being posed with this great dilemma I had to think hard to whether the possibility of a swung fish is more important to me then getting laid. Is it? From years of being married I thought about this and the answer was as clear as mud. Perhaps if I was getting laid more I would not be going through this personal turmoil and divorce, perhaps I would still be happily married, perhaps my liquor cabinet would not have disappeared when I was not looking. So many questions and few answers. So in the end I am going to swing a fly in the morning and think of my decision every step down each run. Perhaps it was a bad decision. I think I will leave it up to fate.

What would you guys do? I can't change the shuttle time and my fishing buddy will be there early in the morning.

Montana Salmon Fly Part #1

Detonation Studios bringing it again!

Trey Combs this Weekend

Over the last year I have been fortunate enough to be able to have dinner with Trey Combs, one of the legends of fly fishing here in the Northwest. This weekend you can meet him and the rest of the grungy old dogs from the Steelhead Underground. Stop by the Drift on Main Street in Klickitat, Washington on Saturday July 23rd and meet him in person. You will even find Klickitat has a great new coffee shop filled with steelhead and trout flies. Trey will be there having lunch and signing a few books between 10am until 2pm.


















This is a great opportunity to pick his brain about steelheading and atlantic salmon fishing around the world. Hell I hear he also knows a thing or two about those saltwater creatures on the fly as well.

New Toy

It is a sad day that I had to pick this up after a shop closure, but yeah its a big win anyway. I have been looking for one of these for years and finally was able to punch the card last week with this one. Berkley-Triangle line winder and new backing for all the reels. I even picked up an old Ross Colorado for next to nothing. Man I hate to see Circle K disappear, especially with the history of walking through that store since I started fly fishing. But man I was excited when I got the news from a good buddy that was there the first day of the sale that yes, this one was all mine. It has already been put to good use after some minor modifications and cleaning. I think I will have to find a few more reels now.

New from Barrett Part II

A week ago my buddy Barrett send me an email about his second season up in the Kola Peninsula. Man I am jealous! Once again he is living my dream trip over and over again by guiding in Russia. He even went to say he caught his largest Atlantic ever. You guys need to check this out at Faraway Fly Fishing. This guy is living the dream.

What the Hell

A June fish many moons ago that wrecked my favorite six weight.

I just came to a very sad realization sitting here drowning my sorrows in a 40 of O'English, I didn't swing a single fly in the month of June. I must be out of my mind!!! I am going through an ugly divorce and June is my second favorite month to swing a fly and I did not do it a single freaking time. What the hell!!! This bullshit has got to stop. Dammit, get the hell out and swing some freaking fish! I am back up in this biaatches and its almost time to skate the hell out of them. Give them hell boys, they are laying in wait.