With reports of salmon flies hatching on the upper Madison pouring in daily I decided I better get up there and get in on the action. I have to say I drove to the upper river with guarded optimism. During the 35 years I have lived and fished in Montana I could count the number [...]
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Salmon Flies on the Madison
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011Fly Fishing and the Game of Memory
Tuesday, July 5th, 2011This past holiday weekend I went camping up in the boonies of Montana. For those who don’t know, the “Boonies” can be defined a few ways: a) the sticks, in the middle of nowhere, b) American, colloquial word for wilderness or places in the middle of nowhere, far from any civilization, or c) a podunk [...]
Salmon Flies on the Madison: YNP
Friday, July 1st, 2011Last week several fishermen stopped by the shop to say that they had been to Yellowstone Park and that the salmon flies were hatching below the falls on the Firehole River. These reports really got my attention since I know that the hatch actually starts on the Madison in the park and works its way [...]
A Day On Keep Cool
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011Keep Cool Reservoir is a beautiful privately owned 31 acre spring fed reservoir that sits in the rolling hill country of Meagher County, Montana. The lake is approximately 100 miles from Bozeman and is reached by paved road. Keep Cool has been described by some as one of the best stillwater fisheries in all of [...]
A Day on the Firehole River
Saturday, June 11th, 2011
Since most of the water around the Bozeman area was high and muddy and therefore unfishable my wife and I decided to head south to Yellowstone National Park to fish the Firehole River. Upon our arrival I was surprised to see that the river was not very crowded. Before leaving Bozeman I had mentally prepared [...]