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Lakes Report

Lakes Report - July 17, 2025
It’s been a while since the last lake report.  No excuses other than the river and stream fishing has been so good and fun that those fisheries have overshadowed the lakes to some degree.  That said, a few of you...
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Lakes Report - May 29, 2025
Welcome to the first lake report of the 2025 summer.  Up in the high country, many lakes remain frozen, and others have fairly recently iced out and have yet to start cranking out the hatches.  In those instances, stick with...
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Lakes Report - August 8, 2024
August is prime time for one of our favorite games to play with a fly rod in Big Sky Country, or anywhere for that matter - Gulper Fishing on Hebgen Lake.  Named for the large brown and rainbow trout who...
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Lakes Report - July 25, 2024
So dang hot!  It seems a bit like we flew right past the fun of the complex summer lake hatches in a week and now are finding the late summer lake doldrums on a significant number of stillwaters.  The good news...
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Lakes Report - July 11, 2024
The cooler weather trend broke last weekend and this patch of warm/hot, stable weather is kicking the lakes into summertime high gear.  This should put the final nail in the coffin of the relatively "simple" stillwater angling that is defined...
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