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June 19, 2012

36 inch Sanibel Snook!

We just got another saltwater report from outfitter Brian Sienkowski.  With several rivers in runoff here in Southwestern Montana, he and his girlfriend Chelsey decided to head south to Florida.  They were fishing primarily for snook, redfish, and tarpon off of Sanibel, Captiva, and Cayo Costa.  Brian said the snook fishing was good when the…

June 18, 2012

Big Pine Tarpon Report

Fly fishing the gin clear waters of Big Pine Key for giant Tarpon, this was the best trip yet. We were fishing the third week in May in hopes that we might hit the worm hatch, we did hit it although it was not as prolific as we have seen other years. Jake Andersen and…

June 17, 2012

Salmonfly Fever continues…

Salmonflies are scattered everywhere throughout South West Montana right now – ditto that for golden stones, sallies, rafts, drift boats, and fish crazed anglers.  Over the last few days, we’ve talked to several good rowers and anglers who have had 100+ hit days on salmonflies and goldenstone dries.  Our best patterns have been Paulson’s Flutter…

June 14, 2012

Stick with big dries…

If there is one time of year to commit to fishing only dry flies in Montana, this is it.  It can be very tempting to fish streamers or nymphs, (especially when everyone else is fishing dries), but that same big fish who’s willing to swipe your streamer or attack a rubber leg could just as…

June 12, 2012

Lower Madison fishing hot!

Fished the box canyon on the Henry’s Fork last weekend.  Salmonflies are done down there, did see a few straggler goldenstones and tons of brown drake spinners.  Stopped a few places near Ennis on the Upper Madison to look for bugs but didn’t see any evidence yet.  The hatch should be moving through the canyon,…

June 6, 2012

Big Bugs on the Lower Madison

The lower Madison has been fishing well the last few days.  Big bugs are out and about and the fish are actively looking for both dries and nymphs.  Aside from Salmonflies there has also been PMD’s and caddis on the water.  Won’t be long before a little hike in the canyon could be a big…

June 1, 2012

Salmonfly Fever starting to brew…

Although the Yellowstone is still rolling at 8,700 CFS it is looking pretty dirty.  Probably will be dirty until mid to late June.  There’s a slim chance the Yellowstone might be worth streamer fishing between now and late June, but right now we are pretty much just waiting for salmonflies to pop on the upper…

May 24, 2012

Florida Chrome

We had some incredible fishing this week near Boca Grande.   The catching, unfortunately wasn’t as mind blowing.  We sure had a lot of shots.  We dubbed one place the “Shooting Gallery” because the fish were everywhere, swimming at us from all directions.  We must have thrown to over 500 fish, none of which wanted to…

May 11, 2012

Yellowstone back to mud…

Looks like the Yellowstone is finally done until mid to late June.  The next couple days an angler could probably throw a streamer or two until the “cottonwood hatch” arrives, (which should be momentarily).  With highs near 80 all week we are sure to see a quick and steady rise with very little chance of…

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