Montana Fly Fishing Report
Fly Fishing on the Madison and Missouri RiversArchive for July, 2008
Summer time and the living easy…The flow out of Hebgen is 1100 cfs, up from a few days ago at 860. The float stretch is crusing along at 1430 cfs which makes fishing dry flies from the boat very enjoyable. The fish are healthy and continue to eat both sub surface and above. I was on the river 19 out [...] 
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Float it dry…….because they’ll eat it.Today was just one of those days. A day that will make you say “you should have been here yesterday”. A day when most of fish in the river were looking up and willing to take a big dry flies on 2X and small dries on 3x. We are in full swing on the Madison and this could [...]
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Bugs, bugs and more BIG BUGSWith the flows out of Hebgen at 11oo CFS, the river has come into prime shape. Throughout the day I have seen Grey Drakes, PMDs, Goldens, Salmons, Yellow Sallies and Caddis. The river is thick with the Big Bugs from Ennis to Renolds Pass. This might be the biggest salmon fly hatch in the last 15 [...]
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L to PWith rain showers looming through the Madison Valley, we cruised on down Reynold’s Pass and made the left turn towards Lyons Bridge. The foot hills and mountain meadows are beaming about a million different shades of green, luckily our recent afternoon rain showers will prolong the browning of the grasses, which is evident as the [...]
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Slide to MacMy good buddy Dan Gordon is in town for the weekend and brought along his buddy from Junior High, Jason Jarvis. Jarvis is a Navy Pilot and has spent time over seas flying operations as the eye in the sky. We fished the last couple of days and have had pretty good fishing. Yesterday we [...]
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Coming into shape….again.The Madison River has dropped over the past 3 days allowing boats to now float under all the bridges on the upper river. The flow out of Hebgen is 1330 and the float stretch is 2260 as of this morning. Cabin and Beaver still have some color, but not enough to really matter. The wade [...]
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