My Montana fly fishing photos. I’ve been out here in Missoula for months now and having a blast! These are some trout fishing pictures of various rivers and creeks I have explored so far. Lot’s of rain lately making most of the Missoula are rivers blown out now for a few weeks. The first pictures are of the mighty Beaverhead, one of the most popular tailwaters outside of Dillon. Though the weather was poor, we managed to land some PIGS! All our fish this day were in the 17-22″ range, all took a size 20 scud and nothing else. Talk about finessing! 5x isn’t much for a 20″ trout.

Next location we hit up was the West fork of the Bitterroot. Some awesome wade fishing if you come out here and dont have a boat. We completed a slam for this water which includes brook, brown, rainbow, cut bow, and cutthroats in two hours with the majority being in the 16-20″ range.

Hope you guys enjoy. I will be posting more in the near future. Salmon flies are just getting ready to go off so I hope to be posting some reports on some knock your shoes off dry fly fishing. Guys now is the time to start coming out here. It’s bubbling right now and about to go! If you do happen to be out in the Missoula area please drop me a line on here or stop by the Grizzly Hackle fly shop and see me. I love seeing some Ga folks out here.

Guys, our fathers are not getting any younger. Get out and enjoy time with them one-on-one at least once a year. My wife’s dad passed only 60-days after being diagnosed with brain cancer, so don’t push it off another year.

I finally pulled the gear out for the opening weekend of trout season for the first time in over 8 years. Got to spend some quality time with my sixty year old father. I don’t get those moments much anymore, since we live so far away. Usually I am playing the role of “Dad” to my kids when we are around each other. This was truly a highlight in my life. Spending 2 days on the streams with Pop, and 3 nights at our cabin with old friends. There was a time when Pop and I were sitting on a rocky beach casting one at time under an overhanging tree back under the roots into a 4′ deep crystal clear pool.

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A little goat enjoying the weather and some tender grass

This bow hit my bomber indicator on top and got hooked in the fin.

This bow fell victim to a big and ugly concoction I came up with.

Since the COE is trying to motion to drain lake lanier in Chattooga today’s float trip was not going to happen so plan B was set in motion. The group assembled at the Waffle House in Clayton for lunch and fine tune the plan. The Chattooga DH was the destination with hopes of getting a good evening hatch.

Once across the river we spread out and sampled different parts and then hit the trail to get to a new spot and do it all over again.

The wind was a constant today and I never saw any large hatches coming off. The fishing was slow but everyone caught a few.

Tooga sampler

Nothing of any size but it was a good way to spend the day and a great bunch of folks to fish with.