Montana Fly Fishing Report
Fly Fishing on the Madison and Missouri RiversHebgen Lake
A few days off…..much needed.Dad, fishing dries on Grayling Creek. As we quickly cruise through the month of August, the Madison has continued to fish really well up and down the entire river. Although I haven’t been below Story Ditch in a while, I have heard decent reports of quality hopper fishing through Cameron Flats. The crowds are gone, we [...] 
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Gunwales, Gulpers and GoodbyesThe Gunwale Bar…coming soon to town near you. After 11 weeks of constant guiding, fishing and relatives most fishing guides will sit back, take a drink or two, and fish Hebgen…..or float the Madison and actually stand in the front of the boat. After all it is August, but not the August most of us [...]
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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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Spring? Where are you?I woke to overcast and 25 degrees this morning. Off in the distance, past the Lake towards the Madison Canyon, it looks as if there are rays of sunshine pouring on to the ground…… I need rays of sunshine. It seems as if spring will never come. We got hammered by another storm two days ago that [...]
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Hebgen LakeYesterday we got to the lake a little later than expected and found fish rising when we arrived. Two local guides and myself rigged the boat and dropped it into the Madison Arm of Hebgen Lake. There were lots of trout rising, but their patterns were inconsistent. Most of these trout were cruising large distances [...]
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Hebgen LakeGulp……..It is that time of the year on Hebgen Lake. We have been out fishing to those large cruising trout for about 3 weeks now, but it is just starting to get consistent. There are tricos, caddis, midges and calibaetis…….and a little wind. We like to get on the lake by 9:00 am and that [...]
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