by Brooks Jessen | May 12, 2025 | General
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...
by Brooks Jessen | Jan 15, 2025 | General
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...
by Brooks Jessen | Sep 24, 2024 | General
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...
by Brooks Jessen | May 16, 2024 | General
This Spring has been up and down as far as weather goes. It was super cold initially in March. April provided some really good skwala and mayfly dry fly fishing on the Bitterroot and the lower Clark Fork. We got warm quickly though and have had some big water...
by Brooks Jessen | Dec 14, 2023 | General
Our 2023 guide season came to a warming conclusion in October. It was a good year, solid fishing, especially on the Missouri and the Clark Fork. We finished strong with awesome clients of ours that I can luckily call friends. This fall in particular I had some...
by Brooks Jessen | Jun 18, 2023 | General
Back in the day 10 or 12 years ago I wrote a blog called ‘the Continuous Trout Road trip’. I’m probably the only person who read it but it revealed the life of a fishing guide and one’s exploits. Well after rowing rafts and drift boats for 23...
