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Salmonflies….in Beartrap Canyon.

   Crawling up….. The big bugs are finally here.  They are actually right on time, but with all the anticipation, it makes it seems like they’ll never show up.  The weather in SW Montana has been rainy and cloudy, not exactly salmonfly weather.  This rain...

The Sweet Month of June

June in Montana is highlight of my angling season.  Snow in the hills, green grass, big puffy clouds, blue sky and large trout on the Missouri River. I left home about 10 days ago and arrived on the Missouri in Craig to 11500 cfs……..big flows.  Not a...

The Lake.

Spring run off has made Hebgen pretty dirty around the lake’s arms.  Grayling Bay and the Madison Arm are brown.  Infact, the mud line extends from Grayling bay, past the narrrows to the pipe on the north shore.  The entire Madison Arm is blown until you get to...

BLOWN……..

  Yes it is true…..the Madison below the Slide is blown out. Cabin and Beaver Creeks are cruising with mud.  The West Fork is pumping a ton of chocolate milk into the river.  The Gallatin, Gibbon, Firehole and Madison in YNP are high and muddy and in places seem...

The Opener on the Madison

  With the flows on the Madison out of Hebgen Dam at 1400 cfs and the clarity of the river at perfection, the Madison fished pretty darn well throughout the valley. Molly and I got down to the river around 9 am to find it pretty empty……below Lyons Bridge...