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Sunny Skies for now

  Cold morning on the Missouri Since October 4, the state of Montana has felt more like December than mid-October.  Sideways snow, 10 degree mornings and freezing guides.  Guide trips were starting around 11 or 12, soup and lunch by 1 o’clock and hitting the...

Summer into Winter

  Not long now……. We had a summer, for about 5 weeks this season. Fall seemed to last only a week or two…..will it return?   My how short things can be sometimes.  I took the photo above this afternoon once the clouds had cleared revealing the...

The River that God Made

  The Dam. Driving up to the Missouri last Wednesday, I thought about all the different rivers and streams that I have fished this season.  Trying to come up with The List, the list of places that are dear to me, it became difficult to place just one river at the #1...

Fall – The Best is yet to come.

Sunset on Horse Butte – the view from our front porch! When I looked at the old fishing report, before writing the new one, I was amazed that I had not written one since August 31st………busy is the word that comes to mind.  There have been...

9050 and dropping…thick caddis and stupid trout

   Is there a finer river? I have been on the Missouri for the past two days and have three more to go.  Both today and yesterday were lights out nymphing and today the fish seemed more willing to take a dry.  At the boat ramp this morning the river was running a...