Montana Fly Fishing Report
Fly Fishing on the Madison and Missouri RiversArchive for May, 2009
The Lake.Spring run off has made Hebgen pretty dirty around the lake’s arms. Grayling Bay and the Madison Arm are brown. Infact, the mud line extends from Grayling bay, past the narrrows to the pipe on the north shore. The entire Madison Arm is blown until you get to the mouth of the South Fork arm. The [...] 
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BLOWN……..Yes it is true…..the Madison below the Slide is blown out. Cabin and Beaver Creeks are cruising with mud. The West Fork is pumping a ton of chocolate milk into the river. The Gallatin, Gibbon, Firehole and Madison in YNP are high and muddy and in places seem like a gaint flowing lake. We are in [...]
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The Opener on the MadisonWith the flows on the Madison out of Hebgen Dam at 1400 cfs and the clarity of the river at perfection, the Madison fished pretty darn well throughout the valley. Molly and I got down to the river around 9 am to find it pretty empty……below Lyons Bridge that is. 3$ Bridge was by far the [...]
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Gallatin is clear and nymphing well.The Gallatin is fishing really well in the Canyon right now and the clarity is hanging in there. 2 days ago, I fished dries for a while without a rise and then put on nymphs and got’em. The stonefly pictured above was my number one fly and below it I had a purple prince. I came up [...]
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Mother’s Day Caddis…..here comes the MudTwo days ago I hung out with my buddy Busch over in Paradise Valley. We drove around looking for heads, although not opposed to fishing nymphs, we both wanted to fish it dry. There were a few more Caddis around below town, but we didn’t see much rise. The Shields River is pushing some mud into [...]
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Road Tripping in SW Montana……Last Monday, Steve and Clark showed up for their 8th annual fishing trip to Montana. Normally, we head up to the Missouri, but since the trout weren’t rising, we headed elsewhere. Once Steve’s luggage arrived, 4 hours later on another flight, we jumped in the rig and made our way to Ennis, Montana. The next [...]
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