From the daily archives:

Thursday, July 16, 2009

 

Summer seems to have settled over western Montana.  These are the days to leave the screen door open and all the fans on in the house.  The hot weather is somewhat negatively effecting fishing, but not too badly.  In fact, the Blackfoot is fishing quite well.
There are good hatches of PMDs, caddis and yellow sallies [...]

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Flows are finally dropping over on the Bighorn.  As of this morning, flows out of the dam are around 7,300 cfs.  About time they were coming down.  There is still a lot of water in the river, but conditions are much better.
The fish remain hungry for nymphs, particularly worms, sow bugs, ray charles, and caddis [...]

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We’ve been hearing bits and pieces of this story for a few weeks now, and lo and behold Richard Lessner, PhD, the Executive Director of the Madison River Foundation in Ennis has just published a nice report on the project in the 14 July 2009 MRF newsletter.   
Here’s his piece in its entirety – 
Hydroelectric Generating [...]

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I guess everyone probably says this about where they live, but one of the reasons that I truly love Montana is that the weather is constantly changing, sometimes in a big way.  
I’ve lived on my family’s land in the Bitterroot more or less all of my life and it never fails to amaze me [...]

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