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Hey everyone we welcome March 2026.  We have some news and are excited that our son Pride Jessen is going to do some guiding for us this season. He's really fishy, a streamer Guru, great fly tyer, caster, northern pike guy, and handles a boat flawlessly.  We're...

  Good morning fly fishing aficionados.  May and June were extremely productive fishing months.  June on the Bitterroot was pretty epic with dries and big fish.  Those cloudy, rainy days in late June had some gators on the prowl.  We guided a bunch on the...

Currently/ Mid May 2025 the Bitterroot, Clark Fork, and the Blackfoot rivers are in full Spring runoff and flowing at near flood stage.  Chocolate brown with the occasional tree, tire, and drowned cow floating by would be my fishing/ river description.  The snow pack...

Happy new year everyone from Troutzoola. This will be my 25th year rowing a drift boat as a guide and or outfitter in Montana. I was a younger man back in 2000, not so much anymore but I'm still willing and able to pull on the sticks with guests while looking for...

Hey friends we haven't posted/updated in a while so here is a quick report with some late summer early fall 2024 photos. We had unseasonably hot weather/ drought in July prompting statewide fishing restrictions and closures.  I didn't feel like pressuring the resource...