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Simms’ Meet Your Maker drawing closes Monday the 15th at 8AM MDT – enter here if you haven’t already…

Here’s the live version with current flow numbers (roll over a gauge and the numbers pop up).

The most current data is here.

Punk Trout from River Snorkel on Vimeo. Four minutes of frisky fish feeding and fighting.

As always, the latest updates can be found here.

July has been declared Open Land Month in Montana; check out their website here and note the artwork, images (even our own Jess McGlothlin Media has some images posted), videos and calendar of events. Your state needs an Open Land Month too…

Making like a fly on the wall and listening to conversations in fly shops (or for that matter anywhere) can provide worthy entertainment these days. Having a wife and two adult kids immersed in the industry right now quadruples the volume of ‘shit you hear in a fly shop buffoonery’; when gathered in Livingston for […]

A Reason(s) to Celebrate Joining fathers across the fruited plain, this Father’s Day She Who Must Be Obeyed and I have been celebrating three fold. Perhaps most importantly, it’s SWMBO’s birthday today (by the way also known as Emancipation Proclamation Day); it worked out to start celebrating early with a delightful French breakfast after a […]

On Cast At A Time from Robbie Dexheimer on Vimeo. A short documentary piece on Mike Fisher of One Cast At A Time. Mike spent a year traveling around the United States alone in his van catching a fish on a fly rod in every state. The third known person to accomplish this feat. During […]

“…that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion – that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain – that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom – and that government of […]

John Arnold, the (insert favorite adjective here) co-impresario of Headhunters Fly Shop in Craig posted the definitive “I can tell you, but then I’d have to kill you…” list of fishy and fishable creeks within a couple hour drive of Helena and the classic stretch of the Missouri we all daydream about. Montana’s “small stream […]

Content Warning: Spin Fishing Follows Keith Barton, writing over at Singlebarbed and potentially the brightest mind writing about fly fishing in the game right now and a longtime favorite of ours), once wrote something along these lines – “Whether or not we care to admit it, buried deep within most fly fishers is a history […]

Costa Rica – Jungle Tarpon Diaries Vol.1 from Solid Adventures on Vimeo. The Solid Adventures crew in the midst of the northern Costa Rican Jungle. Shallow water creeks, lagoons and a river that you would expect trout to swim in are holding some of the biggest Tarpon in Central America. Fly Fishing at it’s finest […]

Guide Series: Southern Tour Trailer from Badfish on Vimeo. It takes a unique person to be a fishing guide. It is a demanding, difficult, and often frustrating job. However, the rewards can be unparalleled. Our first original series, Guide Series: Southern Tour introduces you to some of the South East’s most talented fly fishing guides […]

Some days shit happens on the river, like boots bustin’. That’s why there’s always a rerolled partial strip of duct tape in the boat bag or pack, even if you just say frack it, I ain’t fixing it now. And isn’t it interesting (and pretty much damned universally true) that the guy or gal with […]