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Gunwales, Gulpers and Goodbyes

The Gunwale Bar…coming soon to town near you. After 11 weeks of constant guiding, fishing and relatives most fishing guides will sit back, take a drink or two, and fish Hebgen…..or float the Madison and actually stand in the front of the boat. After all it...

Dry flies anyone?

   Molly and a surface feeding Rainbow. Okay, first off, we all know that throughout the first 3 weeks of July the Madison was…..well….unreliable.  We have the hatches, consistent water flows and temps, but the trout would not cooperate on a day to day...

Three rules to live by…….

 Molly and her new Simms waders……so hot. When on a guided fishing trip there are three rules to live by. 1. Listen to your guide. 2. The guide is always right. 3. Refer to rule #1. It is amazing when clients acutally listen to what a guide has to say and...

Big bugs

   Twenty-one I hit the Madison this afternoon at 5pm. Upon a river crossing, I began fishing Golden Stones on a down stream drift to the undercut banks.  There was a guide just upstream about to finish his day so I didn’t think he would mind me fishing the run...

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...