Fly Fishing Destinations
Fly Fishing and Car Show
Fly Fishing and Car Show Normally I'm not much of a "car" gal. But when it was decided we'd head to Libby, Montana to fish the Kootenai River, hang out with some of our best buds, and check out [...]
Northern Patagonia Argentina
Northern Patagonia Argentina A perfect fly fishing destination If you travel with your family as well as with your fishing mates, the region around San Martín and Junín de los Andes, better known as the lakes district, exhibits some [...]
Fly Fishing the Kootenai River in Northwest Montana
Northwest Montana's Kootenai River The Kootenai River is as big and as rugged as the landscape that surrounds it. Its powerful flow, deep green pools, and the lure of great trout fishing made it our choice for a 10 [...]
Fly Fishing The Clark Fork River Near St Regis
September Fishing on the Clark Fork River Heavy thick smoke from wildfires in California, Oregon, and Washington state shrouded the Clark Fork Valley near St Regis, Montana as we set up camp at Sloway Campground. Poor air quality had [...]
The Gulpers of Hebgen Lake
The Gulpers of Hebgen Lake I'll be the first to admit I lead a semi-charmed life. August of 2020 will go down in the books as some of the best fishing of that year, but it was not without [...]
Scuds and Sow Bugs Video
Missouri River Scuds and Sow Bugs Video Late season Nymphing on the Missouri river in Montona with Scuds and Sow Bugs.
The Road Into The Winds
The Road Into the Winds When your mind wanders and returns to that place, that place where the fishing was so good, that place where no one was around, that place where it was just you and the trout, [...]
West Fork Bitterroot River
The West Fork of the Bitterroot River It was on the suggestion of a friend years ago that we first fished the West Fork of the Bitterroot near Darby, Montana. On that mid-July day, as I played yet another [...]
North Fork Salmon River Idaho
North Fork Salmon River, Idaho We've heard many accounts of the wonderful steelhead fishing on Idaho's Salmon River. We've drooled over our friend's photos of huge fish caught as winter begins to loosen its icy grip of the river. [...]
Henry’s Fork of the Snake River
The Henry's Fork - A Photo Essay Flowing over an ancient caldera, the Henry's Fork of the Snake River lures anglers with prolific hatches and the challenge of wary big trout. We find ourselves drawn back to the Henry's [...]
Revisiting the Upper Green River
Revisiting the Upper Green River None of our 2020 planned fishing trips were as anticipated as our return visit to the Upper Green River near Pinedale, Wyoming. This year we would dry camp along the river in the dusty [...]
Missouri River
The Missouri River Driving north on I-15 out of Helena, Montana and the anticipation builds - catching that first glimpse of the Missouri River as it flows toward Craig always brings a smile and excitement about the trip. We've [...]
Browns Lake
Browns Lake I had heard the stories and seen the photographs of the enormous Browns Lake rainbow trout caught just after ice-out so I was especially excited for our outing in late April. Heading out of Milltown, we head [...]
Upper Green River
Upper Green River Near Pinedale, Wyoming Dropping down off the Hoback Rim and into the high desert vastness of Wyoming does not go unnoticed. We left the Snake River Valley just south of Jackson Hole at Hoback Junction. We [...]
Georgetown Lake
Fly Fishing Georgetown Lake For years before we moved to Montana, our friends, John and Kurt Herzer, would rave about the huge rainbows to be caught in Georgetown Lake near Philipsburg. "If you guys come out in the summer, [...]
Silver Creek
Fly Fishing Silver Creek in Idaho Sometimes we do get lucky... In May of 2018, we set out for adventures to new places, new waters. Runoff was in full swing in our home waters of Montana so time to [...]
Rock Creek
Fly Fishing Rock Creek Rock Creek in Western Montana, is a freestone river that flows from south to north joining the Clark Fork near Clinton, Montana. Designated a Blue Ribbon Trout Stream, Rock Creek boasts 2000 fish per mile. [...]
Big Hole River
Big Hole River Fly Fishing Trip A Cold Front Arrives The Big Hole Valley is notoriously cold at times but this was crazy. We arrived on the Summer Solstice, June 20, 2019, in a thunder-snow and rainstorm. The car [...]
Madison River
Fly Fishing The Madison River Mountains in Every Direction As I passed the interpretive sign at the top of Norris Hill, I wonder what it must have been like for travelers on the Bozeman Trail who must have surely [...]
Lake Agnes
Lake Agnes Pioneer Mountains The Pioneer Mountains are blessed with beautiful peaks and alpines lakes full of trout and/or grayling. Lake Agnes is full of grayling, no trout. It is fairly easy to get to if [...]