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...
by Brooks Jessen | Mar 20, 2023 | General
Is anyone looking for a detailed Bitterroot Spring Fly Fishing Report? The winter of 22/23 has been colder than normal. It’s mid/ late March and we finally experienced an encouraging glimpse of warmer, more trout happy weather. Yesterday I pulled my raft and...
by Brooks Jessen | Jan 17, 2023 | General
The end of 2022 didn’t turn our well for my favorite NFL football team but it’s looking up for our Montana rivers. We’ve had a winter similar to the ones when I was a kid. Who remembers when we had to walk 12 miles to school uphill both ways in...
by Brooks Jessen | Nov 24, 2022 | General
We at Troutzoola are thankful for an abundance of reasons. We sometimes overlook that being able to work and take guests floating down these amazing rivers in our homeland here in Western Montana is an amazing privilege. We recently met and were lucky to...
by Brooks Jessen | Jun 18, 2022 | General
We have been on the Missouri quite a bit this May and June. The fishing has been really good this year. The Mo had been running 3000 CFS for the past 18 months until recently (they raised it to 7500 cfs below Holter this week). This big push of water is good for...
