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Wind & Rain….and a few trout on dries

  Todd N. and a nice Madison Brown fooled with a Golden. The last few days on the upper Madison have been a windy SOB.  When the mayflies and caddis emerged today, they were picked off the surface and blown to Bozeman.  There has been rain in the valley somewhere...

9050 and dropping…thick caddis and stupid trout

   Is there a finer river? I have been on the Missouri for the past two days and have three more to go.  Both today and yesterday were lights out nymphing and today the fish seemed more willing to take a dry.  At the boat ramp this morning the river was running a...

Salmonflies….in Beartrap Canyon.

   Crawling up….. The big bugs are finally here.  They are actually right on time, but with all the anticipation, it makes it seems like they’ll never show up.  The weather in SW Montana has been rainy and cloudy, not exactly salmonfly weather.  This rain...