by Brooks Jessen | Apr 22, 2022 | awesome clients, Bitter root, Bitter Root river, Bitterroot River, Black Foot River, Brooks Jessen, Clark Fork, Clark Fork River, Clark Fork Toads, drift boats, Fishing updates and other fishy gossip, Fly Fishing, friends, General, guide success, Missouri, Missouri River, my family, professional fishing guide
This Spring of 2022 has been a bit colder than normal but we have had some nice windows offering excellent fishing. We started out on the Missouri in March where we were more winter fishing, pink scuds, amex, nymphing some midge stuff and put some awesome bows...
by Brooks Jessen | Feb 1, 2021 | awesome clients, Bitterroot River, Clark Fork River, Fly Fishing, Missouri, Missouri River, monster brown trout
Well it’s the first day of February and I am procrastinating fly tying so I will talk about an arguable subject involving hooking fish and playing fish. I’ll also share a factual story from last season. Big fish late in the summer are tough to fool on busy...
by Brooks Jessen | Aug 30, 2020 | awesome clients, Beaverhead River, Fly Fishing
My wife Sandy and I recently visited the Bighole, Beaverhead rivers, and Dillon with our camper and our drift boat. Some of my guests wanted to see a new river so I was able to work for an outfitter who had some Beaverhead days. It was a nice breakup from being in...
by Brooks Jessen | Jul 9, 2012 | awesome clients, Brooks Jessen
I had a couple of days off and now have been back on guiding for 2 days. My friend Jim G caught some great fish on the Clark Fork, we didn’t see another boat, and we had a blast. We caught plenty of trout prior to a heat wave, and snuck off the river...
