Tag Archives: Dan Summerfield
Skwala Stoneflies, Southwest Montana Style
I thought it was a little late in the season for skwala stoneflies but I got out on the water yesterday with Dan Summerfield and we saw more skwalas on the water than either of us has seen before. At … Continue reading
Montana’s South Fork Flathead River
Getting Wild on Montana’s South Fork Flathead My forest of fly-fishing friends is thinning. It’s as if some cut-and-run logging company waltzed into Montana and whacked them down at the knees. These days when I propose a fishing trip they … Continue reading
Posted in Backcountry, Montana, Northern Rockies
Tagged Dan Summerfield, South Fork Flathead, westslope cutthroat
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Montana’s Beaverhead River
The Only Game in Town Montana’s rivers continue to run high and mostly clouded with some, including the Jefferson, pushing out of their banks this morning. So where does a guy fish moving water when the flows are up? Judging … Continue reading
Beaverhead and Big Hole rivers, Montana
Burma Madnes It had to happen. Over the past 20 years I’ve driven somewhere in the neighborhood of 500,000 miles, many of them in bad weather over tricky roads and I’d never gone off the side…until Saturday. That’s when I took … Continue reading
Posted in Montana, Northern Rockies
Tagged Beaverhead River, Big Hole River, Dan Summerfield
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Bitterroot River post Skwala
Streamers on the Bitterroot I take a trip to Montana’s Bitterroot Valley each spring, usually in March or early April to get in on skwala madness, everything that that big, meaty stonefly affords. It’s chaos on the ‘root most spring … Continue reading
Posted in Flies, Montana, Northern Rockies
Tagged Bitterroot, Dan Summerfield, Skwala, Torrey Cenis
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Sucks to be Whitey
Whitey Saves the Day There’s only one place in the world where the Rocky Mountain whitefish gets its due. That’s in Idaho, in the Big Lost River drainage, where whitefish are towing the line for listing as an endangered species. … Continue reading