Category Archives: Northern Rockies
Fly Fishing Lakes on the Rocky Mountain Front
Chasing monster rainbows in God’s Country I’ve never really taken to the words expert fly fisherman. So, when people introduce me as such, I always roll my eyes a bit. I don’t doubt that I have as much or more fun … Continue reading
Beartrap Canyon
Fly Fishing the Beartrap with Baetis and eggs. It’s not that I’m a Madison River freak or that I particularly like the river better than any others around here, it’s just that it’s right out the back door and easy … Continue reading
Scott Sanchez’ Never Ending Stream
Scott Sanchez writes a down to earth classic with Charlie Brooks, Johnny Boyd, George Grant, Jack Dennis, Mike Lawson, Craig Mathews, Shane Stalcup, and more. Scott Sanchez is one of the nicest people you’ll ever meet and he’s a great … Continue reading
Antelope hunting in Central Montana
Chasing speed goats on Montana’s prarie Been hunting antelope for 20 years and most of those times it’s with the same crew, my father, Fred; a friend from the commercial fishing industry, John van Amerongen; my uncle, Bill Thomas; and … Continue reading
Ruling Gives Bull Trout More Protection
A new future for bull trout begins I started fishing bull trout back in the early 1990s on western Montana’s Rock Creek. People used to say, “You’re fishing for what?” They only became interested when I would say, “Yea, bull … Continue reading
Idaho’s Clearwater River Spey Clave
Spey claves offer great instruction and a chance to catch steelhead. Learning to Spey cast and having a blast on Idaho’s Clearwater As you may have read in my most recent post, I got skunked and dunked on the Clearwater … Continue reading
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Idaho’s Clearwater River and steelhead
GT gets blanked on the big river Err. Steelhead. I had a pretty good run of luck on the Clearwater until last year when I hooked three or four fish and never beached one. Prior to that I think I’d … Continue reading
Fall Hecuba Hatch
Hecuba, October caddis and eager trout It’s fall in Montana, not only in feel, but on the actual calendar now. There’s a lot of reasons to get upset with that knowledge because this summer, like all summers, went way too … Continue reading
Fall Browns on Montana’s Madison River
Wind, gear-chuckers, and high afternoon sun? No worries—sink the hopper and slay. Walked upstram and found more of the same, but I did discover a few little sidechannels that must not have looked too good to the gear guys because I … Continue reading
Montana’s O’Dell Spring Creek
Cool fall days on some hot private water. Some days I feel fortunate to be alive and Friday was one of those. That’s because Jeff Laszlo invited me to fish on O’Dell Creek, which flows through the O’Dell Creek Ranch … Continue reading