Category Archives: Fishing by Time of Year

Labor Day is the unofficial start of the fall season here in Montana. As the nights grow longer and the days shorter, anglers in Montana are eager for the change from warm summer days to crisp mornings and golden sunsets. The fall fishing season in Montana provides anglers with a variety of waters...

Fly fishing in Montana is a grand as the state is expansive and varied. Planning a Montana fly fishing trip should be almost as much fun as going fishing in Montana. But with so much water, so many great Montana fly fishing guides, and so many premier lodges how do you plan the perfect trip when a...

The Yellowstone River flows for over 700 miles from its headwaters deep in the heart of Yellowstone National Park to its confluence with the Missouri River. For its entire course the Yellowstone River flows undammed and wild. With the longest snowmelt runoff of any river in Montana, when the...

Montana boasts perhaps the highest concentration of quality fly fishing for trout in the world. With a network of well-maintained roads and public access areas, fishing the best rivers, creeks, and lakes in Montana is logistically very easy. Compared to the remote and secluded rivers of Chile and...

If there was a time of year that strikes despair and fear into any anglers heart it would be fishing rivers at their high water or runoff stage. A perception of doom and gloom can occur in such a time, but often opportunities to fish during runoff exist...just a little extra effort might be in order...

For many fly anglers, late winter and early spring is a time of dreaming about fly fishing during warm summer days. For those who might want to get an earlier start on their fishing season, midges provide a great fly-fishing opportunity. Midge fishing can be productive as early as January on the...

April is one of the more exciting months of the year for Montana anglers. Although winter fishing is great...things really begin to get exciting when water temperatures begin rising in the spring. More and more water becomes accessible as ice shelves recede and snow banks melt off. One of the great...

As we hit the latter stages of winter and cabin fever has fully overtaken, many of us start daydreaming about the warmth of spring sun and fishing. Whether you live in Montana or are maybe planning a fly-fishing trip to Montana, one factor that we all must account for when making our fishing plans...

The annual Mother’s Day Caddis hatch is one of the most anticipated events here in Southwest Montana. While it may not be quite as famous as the Salmon Fly hatch, the fishing can be every bit as good, if not even better. The sheer number of bugs that take to the air during the peak of the hatch is...

May in Big Sky Country is a magical month. The trees are full of buds, the grass is green, the mountains are still white, and the fish are feeding. May marks a season of change in Montana. Spring and summer both readily characterize the weather observed in May, with sunshine, snow, rain, wind and...