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A Missouri River Brown Trout Being Released Back into the Water

Fly Fishing Strategies for the Missouri in August

Notes from a Fly Fishing Entomologist: August on the Upper Missouri Our guest blogger Kevin Lyons is back with his field notes on fly fishing the Missouri in August: Caddisflies...

Close Up of a Brown Drake Adult on the Missouri River

Flies & Techniques for Fishing the Missouri in July

By: Kevin Lyons  July Caddisfly Hatches, Behaviors, and Patterns The White Miller Caddis from June are still present for the first couple of weeks. A light colored #18 caddis (iris,...

Close Up of 30-inch Pike Caught on Fly Rod

Fly Fishing for Monster Pike: A Five-Year Quest

A story by Steve Boardman Five years ago, after having an estimated 46-inch pike come after a 14-inch largemouth bass I was fighting on a spinning rod, I determined that...

Golden Retriever Waiting in a Drift Boat on the Missouri

What flies should you use on the Missouri River in June?

We love fly fishing the Missouri River. Sure, we’re probably biased. Based in Helena, it’s no great challenge to head over to Canyon Ferry or the Wolf Creek Bridge after...

Laryssa Rote Releases a Trout While Fly Fishing

The Pitfalls of 10 & 2

Learning to fly fish through trial and error...  By Laryssa Rote “Ten and two,” I muttered to myself, whipping the fly rod back and forth. Unlike all those Youtubers though,...

Madelynn Pandis holds up a juvenile cutthroat trout while fly fishing.

Fly Fishing in the Little Belts

Hidden in Plain Sight - A Fly Fishing Story by Madelynn Pandis Growing up in the mountains, I have always had a special place in my heart for mountain streams...

Redband Rainbow Trout.

Fly Fishing the Williamson

In July of 2022, I was fishing the Williamson River outside Klamath Falls, Oregon. Redband Rainbow Trout come out of Lake Klamath in the summer to seek refuge in the...