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...
Here we are in the doldrums of February and with them Brooks and I have been discussing mental health. Mental health is a taboo subject no matter how progressive we think we’ve become. Hopefully we can get to a point where we can express that maybe we’re...
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...
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...
We have been kind of all over the map the last couple of weeks. Missouri near Craig back to Rock Creek, upper Bitterroot to the Blackfoot, and mid Bitterroot while taking a daring shot at the Mighty Clark Fork west of Missoula. Most of our rivers are substantially...
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...