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 | Jul 6, 2021 | Black Foot River, Brooks Jessen, Clark Fork River
June was a crazy month from our business standpoint. The weather was bi polar. We were on the MO a bunch, with my wife and I staying in our camper. Then we’d bomb back to Rock Creek, then back to the Mo, back to the Blackfoot, then Mo, back to Rock Creek, and...
by Brooks Jessen | May 28, 2020 | Bitterroot River, Brooks Jessen, Fly Fishing, General, Salmon flies
My daughter Logan and I floated the mainstream Bitterroot four days ago as it was on the drop, a bit too high for solid fishing. She did stick a big brown trout looked like, but he popped off before we got a visual. There is some fishing in side channels. A couple...
by Brooks Jessen | Mar 4, 2020 | Bitterroot River, Brooks Jessen, Clark Fork River, competitive fly fishing guides, drift boats, ego
Guests may not realize this but guides and outfitters are SUPER competitive and a little like ninth grade girls (although that may be a bit of an insult towards ninth grade girls). They are always scheming about how they can get the better of their...
by Brooks Jessen | Jul 17, 2012 | Brooks Jessen, Clark Fork Toads
I’ve been fishing with these sweet ladies from Seattle for 7 or 8 years and there is always something crazy that happens. Well today nothing out of the ordinary happened but we have two more days and only time will tell if a boat floats away, someone goes...
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...