Fly Fishing Montana

Frenzy Day 4

Aug 7th

Posted by Big Hoss in Frenzy

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I will let the videos tell the story.

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Frenzy Day 3

Jul 29th

Posted by Big Hoss in Frenzy

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Day three started and ended on the Madison River. We actually started it off at the slide inn getting all the latest hatch info from Kelly Galloup and at the same time buying up some of his famous streamer flies. We hit the river mid morning landing some good fish nymphing some good holes and throwing some big stone dries. Late morning we started to see some Salmon flies hatching so we switched to the big bugs and had a blast hitting the banks. We took a break and headed to West Yellowstone for some grub at the Bear Tooth BBQ and finished the day off right hitting a good caddis hatch.

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Need to GO to the MO!

Mar 30th

Posted by Big Hoss in Missouri River Montana

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post by Jeff Thomas

So this year it seems that the Rainbow Spawn is getting started a little bit earlier than the past couple of years due to the warmer weather we are experiencing. I went Missouri River down below the Local Dam here in Helena to do a little fishing hoping to get in on a little action. We didn’t catch as many as expected but there are quite a few larger fish moving into the area just in the past week. I hooked about 20+ fish but I think it will be another week or two before we start catching them every few casts. It’s a blast hauling in a 25+ inch fish that puts up a good fight. It just goes to show what the “MO” has to offer.

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BIG ‘Big Sky’ Brown

Mar 23rd

Posted by Chubbs in Fly Fishing Montana

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Montana Fly Fishing

There are certain rivers I still need to fly fish in Montana before I’m gone. The Jefferson River is on that list. Check out this sweet video of a FAT Brown caught out of a spring creek near the Jefferson by Stonefly Inn and Outfitters in Twin Bridges, Montana. It is posted by Fay Ranches.

ENJOY!

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Snapped my TFO

Mar 14th

Posted by Big Hoss in Bitteroot River

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Post by Jeff Thomas

Last weekend I took a trip to Missoula to hang out with my family and all of my close buddies. My best friend Casey suggested that I bring my fishing gear because he wanted to take me on a float down the Bitterroot River (South of Missoula) with his and his Brother Taylor who is a guide for the “Missoulian Angler.” I told him that I would love to do a float.

We met the next morning and headed down south. We arrived at the put in area. In a matter of seconds I snapped my TFO rod on a MONSTER (actually i just snapped it somehow as I was casting) luckily we were still in close proximity to the truck so I hopped out and got Casey’s extra 4wt. Back on the river Taylor had set us up with the appropriated flies and we pulled over on the first nice run. I had positioned myself at the top of a fast moving run and I got a huge hit on my first cast. I was hooked up on a nice brown! I had it on only for a few seconds when it jumped out of the water with a violent thrash and spit the fly. I was kind of pissed because the first one to catch a fish didn’t have to Shotgun a 16 oz Beer. Needless to say Taylor pulled in a nice Rainbow about 2 minutes later from the same hole. We headed down stream and Casey had hooked what he thought was a monster. It was fighting like crazy and running on him every time we got it close. It still turned out to be a nice rainbow but it was foul-hooked so it seemed bigger, especially on a 4 wt rod.

We caught a ton of whitefish which we kept about 15 to smoke. and quite a few Trout. The weather couldn’t have been any better. We were on the River from 11am to 6:30pm. Can’t wait to go back next time I’m in town.