by Brooks Jessen | May 26, 2023 | Beaverhead River, beavers, Bitter root, Bitter Root river, Bitterroot River, Black Foot River, Clark Fork River, craig MT camping
We’ve had some excellent Spring Fishing the last couple of months. We’ve mainly been on the Missouri with a few stints on the Clark Fork, Bitterroot, and the Blackfoot. I guided for a permit holder on the Bighole river a few days. I also have been doing...
by Brooks Jessen | Mar 20, 2023 | General
Is anyone looking for a detailed Bitterroot Spring Fly Fishing Report? The winter of 22/23 has been colder than normal. It’s mid/ late March and we finally experienced an encouraging glimpse of warmer, more trout happy weather. Yesterday I pulled my raft and...
by Brooks Jessen | Jan 17, 2023 | General
The end of 2022 didn’t turn our well for my favorite NFL football team but it’s looking up for our Montana rivers. We’ve had a winter similar to the ones when I was a kid. Who remembers when we had to walk 12 miles to school uphill both ways in...
by Brooks Jessen | Nov 24, 2022 | General
We at Troutzoola are thankful for an abundance of reasons. We sometimes overlook that being able to work and take guests floating down these amazing rivers in our homeland here in Western Montana is an amazing privilege. We recently met and were lucky to...
by Brooks Jessen | Jun 18, 2022 | General
We have been on the Missouri quite a bit this May and June. The fishing has been really good this year. The Mo had been running 3000 CFS for the past 18 months until recently (they raised it to 7500 cfs below Holter this week). This big push of water is good for...
