Josh over at Troutbugs describes every experience I have ever had trying to hit the salmonfly hatch.
Madison
Folks in Montana are gathering to develop a management plan for the famed Madison. While something like this seems overdue considering the tales I have heard of the rubber hatch on the lower river (see the link above for more info), one can’t help but worry about what Malcolm Gladwell described as “creeping determinism,” or […]
As unlikely as it might sound, we’re entering one of my favorites times to be on the water back home – those weeks (pending the year) that the rivers run clear and cold before they ice up completely in the depth of the winter freeze. The combination of low river flows, the winter sunlight, unique […]
Hot off the press from the Madison Gallatin TU Chapter: As you may know, thousands of trout typically are stranded in the 16-mile-long ditch when the head gate is closed in the fall. In the past volunteers have returned thousands of fish to the Madison River. Valley Garden Ranch, the ditch operator, has been very helpful in […]
Big Fish Tenkara: Daniel Galhardo vs. Large Brown Trout from Ashley Valentine on Vimeo. Damn, this looks fun.
Trying to hold to a reasonable standard of optimism, given that July is a couple of days away and that river flow trends had been looking a tiche better over the past few days, yesterday we planned to post this morning a few area river flows that had been improving. That post was to have […]
On the road this morning pondering the perplexities of river flows, fly fishing, timing and life, pretty much in that order. She Who Must Be Obeyed and I are returning home to Bozeman this weekend for a while. Our timing from a river flow and fly fishing perspective certainly ain’t the best this trip, though […]
Another ‘damn I wish it was summer’ pic from Fire Girl Photography.
(Bandwith be damned, we like images you can sink your teeth into….)
Jess at Fire Girl Photography grabbed this image as part of a project for American Angler article covering the earliest days of the Quake Lake Hydroelectric Project a few years ago. As always a busy day on the river during high season.
