Montana Angler Fly Fishing Blog

Spring and summer-time fishing in Montana is often defined by when snowmelt runoff begins and ends. From year to year, the exact timeframe of our runoff period varies, but it typically begins in mid-May and runs into mid-June. Montana’s freestone rivers like the Gallatin and Yellowstone often run...

Spring and summer-time fishing in Montana is often defined by when snowmelt runoff begins and ends. From year to year, the exact timeframe of our runoff period varies, but it typically begins in mid-May and runs into mid-June. Montana’s freestone rivers like the Gallatin and Yellowstone often run...

Spring and summer-time fishing in Montana is often defined by when snowmelt runoff begins and ends. From year to year, the exact timeframe of our runoff period varies, but it typically begins in mid-May and runs into mid-June. Montana’s freestone rivers like the Gallatin and Yellowstone often run...

Spring and summer-time fishing in Montana is often defined by when snowmelt runoff begins and ends. From year to year, the exact timeframe of our runoff period varies, but it typically begins in mid-May and runs into mid-June. Montana’s freestone rivers like the Gallatin and Yellowstone often run...

Spring and summer-time fishing in Montana is often defined by when snowmelt runoff begins and ends. From year to year, the exact timeframe of our runoff period varies, but it typically begins in mid-May and runs into mid-June. Montana’s freestone rivers like the Gallatin and Yellowstone often run...

Sometimes less is more. Such is the case when it comes to fly fishing in New Zealand. There are many that would find it peculiar that we choose to travel to the other side of the earth to catch less fish than we would at home. The truth is there is simply something magical about the quality of the...

Sometimes less is more. Such is the case when it comes to fly fishing in New Zealand. There are many that would find it peculiar that we choose to travel to the other side of the earth to catch less fish than we would at home. The truth is there is simply something magical about the quality of the...

You've heard it before: trout spend most of their time feeding below the surface. But how do you catch what you can't see? Seeing a trout eat a dry fly might be what we all dream about and what originally brought us to love fly fishing, but mastering your ability to fish a fly where you cannot see...

The foam Chubby Chernobyl fly was so chewed up that I had to change it, and I asked the guide if I should try something else. “It doesn’t matter,” he said nonchalantly, sitting in the middle of the raft. Sure enough, a couple of casts later another rainbow trout swam up out of the willows and...

The foam Chubby Chernobyl fly was so chewed up that I had to change it, and I asked the guide if I should try something else. “It doesn’t matter,” he said nonchalantly, sitting in the middle of the raft. Sure enough, a couple of casts later another rainbow trout swam up out of the willows and...