Fly Fish Montana with Expert Guides
Fins and Feathers Guide Service has provided anglers with world-class Montana fly fishing trips on blue-ribbon waters across Big Sky Country for over two decades. We create customized Montana fly fishing vacations and day trips targeting wild trout on the rivers, streams, reservoirs, and spring creeks of Montana.
Our guides are expert fly anglers and patient instructors. Seasoned anglers will appreciate our nuanced and detailed knowledge: we’re dialed into the hatches, rivers, movements of the fish, and techniques to catch them. Novices will enjoy learning from supportive, patient instructors. We meet you wherever you are on your fly fishing journey.
A Fins and Feathers adventure promises world-class fishing, lasting memories, and new friendships forged in Montana's pristine waters near Bozeman and across the region.
Bozeman Fly Fishing Trips
Based in Bozeman, the heart of Montana angling, Fins and Feathers Guide Service takes you wherever the fishing is best. Our seasoned, expert fly fishing guides have been crafting personalized fly fishing vacations and day trips on premier Montana trout waters for more than two decades.
Montana Fly Fishing Trip Packages
We offer vacation packages tailored to your ideal Montana fly fishing trip. Whether you prefer to stay in a downtown Bozeman hotel close to exceptional dining and nightlife, or at an all-inclusive fly fishing lodge just steps from a trout river, we curate fly fishing trips that meet your needs.
Over Two Decades of Experience
Fins and Feathers Guide service knows the rivers and trout of Montana better than anyone else, because we’ve been operating our Montana fly fishing guide service continuously for more than two decades.
Back in 2000, we opened Bozeman’s premier fly shop and fly fishing guide outfitting service. In 2022, we sold the shop to focus on what we love and do best: providing exceptional guided Montana fly fishing trips. When you book a fly fishing trip with Fins and Feathers, you fish with one of us—a small, select group of highly experienced fly fishing guides.
We call Bozeman (and its numerous nearby rivers) home, but our fly fishing guides are comfortable fishing all over Big Sky Country. We can customize day trips or extended vacations across Montana tailored to your specific fishing and lodging preferences.
Legendary Montana Fly Fishing Rivers
We consider Bozeman the best trout fishing destination in Montana because it offers close proximity to a diverse array of water and fishing opportunities.
The Yellowstone, Madison, Gallatin, and Jefferson Rivers are just a short drive from town, giving you access to hundreds of miles of float and wade fishing with strong populations of wild trout. Lesser known streams, mid-sized rivers, spring creeks, lakes, and reservoirs are also within an hour’s drive.
For those looking to venture further afield, we can curate a broader sampling of legendary trout fly fishing across the Treasure State including the Big Hole, Beaverhead, Blackfoot, Bighorn, Missouri, and others.
The Best Fly Fishing in Montana
Why fish here? Because the Bozeman area offers access to some of the best trout rivers, streams, lakes, and spring creeks you’ll find anywhere. We know, because we’ve been fishing and guiding here since 2000.
However you like to fly fish for trout, Fins and Feathers Guide Service can craft a day trip or multi-day vacation suited to your skills, preferences, and expectations. Our decades of knowledge and experience combined with our proximity to hundreds of miles of world-class trout fishing water allow us to make each day on the water unique and memorable.
Check out our Montana fishing reports, Montana fly fishing blog, and overviews of the Montana rivers we fish to learn for yourself. Our trip-planning tools offer terrific resources for anglers fishing through Southwest Montana.
Montana Fly Fishing Blog
Montana Fishing Reports
Gallatin River
Last Updated: 10/27/2024
Fishing on the Gallatin River has been solid using both dry and streamer fly fishing techniques. Withclludy and cooler conditions expected over the next week, trout should continue feeding more consistently than...
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Upper Madison
Last Updated: 10/27/2024
Nymph fishing the upper Madison River has been solid in the channels section, downstream of Ennis. Stonefly nymphs, followed by small perdigon and egg patterns are good fly choices there...
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Lower Madison
Last Updated: 10/27/2024
The streamer bite has picked up for local anglers and our guides fly fisiing the lower Madison River as of late. Cooler weather is heading our way, supposedly bringing some...
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