Madison

Even with all this new snow, the Madison is fishing well.  Both the upper and the lower are in pretty good shape right now.  The snow might have slowed things up for a few days, but look for fishing to really pick up this weekend with the warmer weather. The rainbows are in the middle […]

Clearing after the rain – looking west from higway 84 between the Lower Madison and Bozeman on the way home yesterday evening.

The Madison is a great spring time fishery.  It has been good all year and is just getting better.  Wade fishing is probably the best way to fish the Madison right now, just be very careful around spawning beds, as the rainbows are really going at it. Nymphing has been very productive in Bear Trap […]

There is a lot of great fly fishing water in Montana – most of it is pretty darned well known to those who frequent the area, some of it is not so well known.  In addition to the Yellowstone National Park waters that we’ve been covering for the past several years at Best Fly Fishing […]