God I hope heaven looks like Montana in September. A prayer I say often and truly believe. Montana comes into its own in September and shows her best self. It has forgot the cold and snow of last winter, the refreshing rains of spring have brought life to the landscape and it has marinated in […]
Website About Guided Fishing Blog Fishing Reports Contact Shop Dear Friends, The summer solstice has come, there are salmon flies hatching on the river and all is good in cultural epicenter of trout. The hum of town increases each day with more and more people showing up to experience and connect with our beautiful river and landscape. […]
Being Mother’s Day on the calendar we should update what is going on with the Mother’s Day Caddis Hatch. Are there caddis on the Upper Madison River? Absolutely they showed up about two days ago and are popping off at a good pace. Have we seen the rafts of caddis that is so popular with […]
The Madison river remains ice free still and boat ramps are still accessible even after the snow we got the past couple of day. Fish have been holding in their typical winter lays concentrate your efforts in the slower deeper pools right now.
Guiding may be a job, complete with responsibilities and frustrations, just like any other. However, it has moments that have me actually questioning, “I actually get paid for this?†Days I actually wish could last a little longer, where fish, weather, clients actually cooperate. Today was one of those days. I met my clients, Amelia […]
A great short video from the Madison River of a nice rainbow release.
Dear Friends, June is here and with that comes the busy summer season we all know and love. Most of you are getting done with school, getting the yard cleaned up, planning your summer trip to Montana. We have had our hands full with the busiest May we have seen. The fishing has been great […]
Fishing with John Stewart from Ennis again today. The night time temps did not dip as low today as they have been in the past days. This kept the water temps slightly raised from what we have been seeing and produced good action right from the put in. We caught our first fish within sight […]
Today I got to fish with a long time Tackle Shop friend John Stewart from Ennis. This is the fourth year in a row that John has traveled to the Bitterroot with me to chased the skwala hatch. Today started off much like yesterday with a cold night and low water temps first thing in […]
Even with the cold weather we have been having the world famous skwala hatch on the Bitterroot River is going strong. We are over in the Missoula Area chasing the skwala hatch and guiding. Today we decided to try the Bitterroot River on one of it upper stretches hoping the smaller water would warm […]
