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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...

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...