by admin | Jun 12, 2008 | Madison River, Missouri River
I just got back a few days ago from the 5 days on the big river to the north. The Missouri (14,000 cfs) is huge and one day we floated at 15,900 cfs. We caught trout on long leaders, 13ft to the second bug, using a 3/0 split and one tung head worm. After dropping our...
by admin | May 28, 2008 | Missouri River
Jonathon and I just got back from 3 days of guiding and a couple days of fishing on a rain soaked Missouri River. The river swelled huge with all the rain and I haven’t seen the Prickly Pear or the Dearborn at these levels for 10+ years. As of this...
by admin | May 19, 2008 | 05. MONTANA FLY FISHING
74 degrees is one heck of a way to start MT’s General Season Opener after a long winter endured. The weekend weather was nice to see, but it is bringing down the snow pack like a pack of wolves on a old tired bull elk in Lamar Valley. Luckily, we have Quake Lake...
by admin | May 15, 2008 | Madison River
The Madison below Hebgen Dam is flowing 942 cfs and 1160 at Kirby Ranch. These flows should sustain for a few more days depending on how warm it actually gets this weekend. We took a drive yesterday over Reynold’s Pass and stopped at Reynolds bridge to have a...
by admin | May 13, 2008 | Madison River
I just got an email back from Lance Elias at PPL and he is bumping the flow tomorrow. Since they can’t raise the river more than 10% of the previous days flow, I would expect to see 87 cfs more in the river sometime tomorrow afternoon. He said that there are no...
