by admin | Oct 2, 2010 | 05. MONTANA FLY FISHING, Madison River
There are plenty of trout still looking up for a big juicy hopper in the afternoons below Palisades. While yesterday wasn’t stellar, there are fish like the one above rising everyday. This 21 inch Brown ran straight up stream so hard that I had to get out...
by admin | Sep 30, 2010 | 05. MONTANA FLY FISHING, 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide
……….here in Southwest Montana. Fall is in full swing all around us. With the warmer Indian Summer weather just too stubborn to leave, I decided that my soul needed any early morning drive through the mountains. I took some photos along the way,...
by admin | Sep 29, 2010 | 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide
Each year, sometime in early Fall, several of us local guides take off for a few days of fishing. We only fish stretches of rivers that we rarely float, try to camp the entire time and there is not schedule or pre-made plan. For some reason my idea of floating...
by admin | Sep 24, 2010 | 05. MONTANA FLY FISHING, Madison River
Over the past 12 years, good food has come and gone around West Yellowstone. West Yellowstone is known for great angling, not good food. Sure Sydney’s Bistro is good, but a fishing guide can’t afford to eat there everyday. Wild West Pizza and Beartooth...
by admin | Sep 15, 2010 | 11. JOE'S VAULT - Ramblings of a Fly Fishing Guide
Hiking is not something I am very found of, unless of course I am hunting or fishing. Walking for the sake of walking just doesn’t make much sense….if this conversation was going on between my wife and I, she would just roll her eyes and change the...