It’s an exciting time of the season to be a fly angler here in Yellowstone Country. With river conditions shaping up, the weather forecast looking great for fishing, and the Railroad Ranch opening this weekend, it’s sure to be an excellent week. Snowpack levels across...
Originator: Joe Moore, BSA Co-owner Hook: TMC 100 or equivalent, #10 Thread: Tail: Moose body hair Butt Dubbing: Superfine Dry Fly Dubbing, Olive Abdomen: Goose or Turkey Biot, Olive Wing: Widows Web, Light Tan Hackle: Grizzly dyed olive Notes: When we first opened...
The Western Green Drake, Drunella grandis, is a rock star in the world of aquatic entomology. It’s on the cover of all the magazines, and people travel from across the globe to see the show they put on. In many ways, Green Drakes and the fishing situations that they...
Stop in to Big Sky Anglers for a fun evening with Jamie Howard and Capt. Arthur Cortes. Get immersed in the culture of east coast striped bass for a couple of hours, and enjoy some pizza and beverages.
Every year there is a week, or sometimes a day in Yellowstone Country when it feels like summer has finally arrived. Spring labors on like an old Ford truck rolling down the road in low gear. Rainy and snowy, its stammers and chugs until one day the rpm’s get high...
When Yellowstone National Park announced that felt soled wading boots would be banned starting this season, it marked the beginning of a new era in our region for fly shops and anglers alike. Every fly shop in the region has started to stock multiple non-felt soled...
Welcome to the Weekly Fishing Report from Big Sky Anglers! Big water, big bugs, and green hillsides continue to be the headlines this week from Yellowstone Country. Warm temps and rain are doing their best to melt our stellar snow pack from last winter, and we are...
The venerable king of all hatches in Yellowstone Country, the Salmonfly Hatch lives in infamy among fly anglers world wide. Nothing generates more excitement, for both fish and fishermen alike than salmonflies, and with good reason. The chance to see a wild trout rise to the surface and inhale a three inch long insect (or better yet, your three inch long fly) is the stuff that fly fishing dreams are made of.
Welcome to the first Weekly Fishing Report from Big Sky Anglers for 2018! We had a great snow pack throughout Yellowstone Country this winter, and that means that in this first report we will be talking a lot about run off. It comes with the territory, and we're used...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Water Releases from Hebgen Dam to Flush Madison River Sediments Butte, Mont. – May 21, 2018 – NorthWestern Energy is planning to release water from Hebgen Dam with the goal of flushing fine sediments from Madison River gravel under the terms of...
Thirty years ago, if you walked into a fly shop to buy a 6-weight line, you'd read the line's product description and match the line's AFTMA (American Fishing Tackle Manufacturers Association) number to your rod weight. a 6-wt rod took a 6-wt line. Simple. Those...
Originator: Brian Chan Hook: TMC 2302 or equivalent, #10 - 16 Thread: 8/0 Uni, dark brown Bead: White, sized to match hook Body: MFC Sexi Floss or Spirit River Flex-Floss, brown Rib: Uni Wire, small, red and silver Brian Chan is a Canadian Stillwater angling expert...
Welcome to the third edition of Dispatches, a new series which reports on the Big Sky Anglers crew as they travel the globe in search of angling adventures. Each edition of Dispatches will feature an interview with one of our angling pros while they are on assignment...
We are excited to have 3 spots available at Steelhead Valhalla. Prime Dates. October 2019. Don't hesitate to get in touch with us as these spots will fill up fast. British Columbia is a special place to visit, especially if enjoy swinging a fly for steelhead....
Spring is here! Maybe fishing season is in full swing where you are. Maybe you are already planning for your big trip to Yellowstone Country this summer. Or maybe you are stuck with runoff and have some extra pent up fishing energy. Regardless of your situation,...
It turns out that winter can get a little long here in West Yellowstone. That leaves plenty of time to look back on photos and bring back memories of the warmer days of the past summer, and to look ahead to the upcoming season. I haven’t spent an extensive amount of...
Welcome to the second edition of Dispatches, a new series which reports on the Big Sky Anglers crew as they travel the globe in search of angling adventures. Each edition of Dispatches will feature an interview with one of our angling pros while they are on assignment...
It was 3 degrees and snowing here in Montana as I wrote this a couple weeks back. Skiing season. Maybe ice fishing season. But a few days before writing it was nearly 50 degrees, and now it seems like the first lower elevation melt is really on. A couple of my...
We just received the following press release from officials in Yellowstone National Park. This announcement affects anyone interested in Yellowstone Fly Fishing, and is a big shift in management policy for Western fisheries!...
Welcome to the first edition of Dispatches, a new series which reports on the Big Sky Anglers crew as they travel the globe in search of angling adventures. Each edition of Dispatches will feature an interview with one of our angling pros while they are on assignment...