by admin | May 18, 2018 | Flies and Fly Tying, Hebgen Lake
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...
by Belen Ladd | Mar 28, 2018 | 05. MONTANA FLY FISHING, Hebgen Lake
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...
by admin | Mar 13, 2018 | 03. TECHNIQUES & STREAMCRAFT, 05. MONTANA FLY FISHING, Hebgen Lake
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...
by admin | Oct 25, 2017 | 05. MONTANA FLY FISHING, Hebgen Lake, Madison River
We received the following press release from FWP and Northwest Energy this week, and though many of you would be interested. Looking forward to things getting back to the old version of normal on the Madi! FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: NorthWestern Nearly Done With Hebgen...
by admin | Aug 11, 2017 | Flies and Fly Tying, Hebgen Lake, Match The Hatch
A while back I wrote a post about Callibaetis and Chironomids where the punch line was that my buddy and I wanted the fish to be eating Callibaetis but they were really on chironomids. Well that was then, and this is now… Callibaetis and damselflies have been...
by admin | Jun 4, 2017 | 03. TECHNIQUES & STREAMCRAFT, 05. MONTANA FLY FISHING, Hebgen Lake, Match The Hatch
By now you’d think I could not be fooled. You’d think that I’d know better after so many seasons fishing stillwaters. But I still fall into the trap nearly every time. And it happened again just the other day. My fishing partner and I arrived at the lake...
