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Category: News & Updates
How to Plan the Best Fly Fishing Trips to Montana
Post Date: 05/01/2024
Montana offers so many options that planning the best fly-fishing trip can be daunting. Anglers can fly fish year-round in Montana; however, understand that the best time of year for...
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Category: News & Updates
10 Montana Fishing Tips to Catch the Most Fish
Post Date: 03/10/2024
Montana is full of trout. From world-renowned rivers like the Yellowstone, Gallatin, Madison, Jefferson, and Missouri, to smaller secret creeks and high alpine lakes. Finding trout water is easy; catching...
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When is the Best Time to Fly Fish in Montana?
Post Date: 03/06/2024
Montana fly fishing is among the best wild trout fly fishing destinations in the world. Timing your fly fishing vacation around the best times of the year is critical to...
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10 Top Montana Fly Fishing Spots Near Bozeman
Post Date: 02/20/2024
An angler's paradise, many Bozeman fly fishing options are accessible and near town for a quick outing. From rivers to lakes and spring creeks, there is endless opportunity when targeting...
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Montana Snowpack 2024 Early Winter
Post Date: 02/03/2024
February 2024 is starting in the right direction as we are set for a week of cooler temperatures and daily snow in the forecast. February and March are historically strong...
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Reconnecting Side Channels on the Bighorn River
Post Date: 09/06/2023
The Bighorn River Alliance is spearheading efforts to maintain and enhance the Bighorn River fishery through a variety of efforts, none of which will be more beneficial than their plans...
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Fall 2023 Upper Madison FWP Shocking Schedule
Post Date: 08/30/2023
FWP is tentatively scheduled to sample between the lakes on Sept 5th, at Pine Butte Sept. 6-8, 14, 15, 18, and finally at Varney Sept. 19-21 and 26-28. Those dates...
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Kendjam Lodge - Brazil Fly Fishing Lodge
Post Date: 08/29/2023
The sun was fading under the jungle behind me, while respite from the stifling heat seemed further now than it had all day. Granite outcroppings, the size of a small...
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Protect Water Quality in Montana
Post Date: 08/15/2023
Montana water quality is under constant attack as a result of short-sighted development plans, outdated agricultural practices, and mediocre government oversight....
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5 Best Hopper Patterns for the Bozeman Area
Post Date: 08/12/2023
“Hopper fishing” is one of the quintessential Montana fly-fishing experiences, characterized by long drifts and care-free eats by wild trout of all sizes and species....
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Tarpon Time in 2023
Post Date: 06/08/2023
Clouds were gathering, the wind had turned from gusty to steady, fish had quit rolling hours ago and we had about 15 minutes to go before we had to call...
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May on the Missouri Wrap 2023
Post Date: 06/01/2023
Our “2023 Spring on the Missouri” wrapped up over Memorial Day Weekend with a couple days of heavy rains and erratic river flows. However, we still managed to find plenty...
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Missouri River Spring Fly Fishing Update
Post Date: 05/09/2023
Sunny skies and the warm breath of a Montana morning greeted me today at the boat ramp on the Missouri River, near Craig, Montana....
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Top 10 Missouri River Flies - Early May 2023
Post Date: 04/28/2023
Spring on the Missouri is “heating” up with warm weather in the cards for the next week. Expect water conditions to start changing daily with increasing snowmelt coming in from...
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Missouri River Montana Fly Fishing Update
Post Date: 04/26/2023
Spring has finally sprung the last few days up here in central Montana along the Missouri River. Geese are on the nests, green is starting to replace white and brown...
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And the road goes on forever...
Post Date: 04/16/2023
The last several months of life have been nothing short of spectacular for me, following the sale of Fins and Feathers of Bozeman fly shop to Yellow Dog Travel las...
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Gallatin River Conservation News
Post Date: 04/15/2023
The Montana Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has formally declared the middle segment of the Gallatin River 'impaired' by algal blooms under Section 303(d) of the federal Clean Water Act....
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Punta Gorda Permit Fly-Fishing
Post Date: 02/26/2023
I recently returned from my first trip to Punta Gorda (PG) in southern Belize where I fished with friends of mine while staying at Garbutt’s Fishing Lodge. Primarily known as...
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Bozeman Fly-Fishing Forecast 2023 - Feb. 16
Post Date: 02/16/2023
The snowpack continues to be very strong as we head into the 2023 fly-fishing season in Southwest Montana. Earlier in the winter,...
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Featured on Fly Lords Fly Shop Tour
Post Date: 02/02/2023
Check out this series of videos from Fly Lords that features the staff and myself at Fins & Feathers of Bozeman last fall.....
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Denver Fly-Fishing Show
Post Date: 01/29/2023
Are you on the Colorado front-range or planning to attend the Fly-Fishing Show in Denver on Feb 17-19? If so, please stop by the Yellow Dog Fly-Fishing.....
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MGTU Annual Banquet
Post Date: 01/20/2023
Madison Gallatin Trout Unlimited's 51st Annual TroutFest Banquet will be held on Saturday, February 25th, 2023 at 5:00 PM at the Best Western Gran Tree Inn in Bozeman....
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Explorations on the Fly
Post Date: 01/10/2023
The seas – yes, the seas – were rough as I powered blindly across unknown waters with seawater in my eyes and a feeling of excitement that has become all...
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Bozeman Fly-Fishing 2023 Update
Post Date: 01/04/2023
Here we are, brining in the new year with the holiday festivities officially in the rearview mirror and eyes locked on what’s come for 2023. The last 2 months of...
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Fins & Feathers Bozeman Guide Goes for Steel
Post Date: 12/22/2022
Tim Peterson headed north this fall, following a busy fly-fishing guide season here in Bozeman, in pursuit of wild Steelhead and solace on the rivers of British Columbia....
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Montana 2023 Snowpack Update - Early
Post Date: 12/09/2022
Here we are in early December 2022 and all the talk around Bozeman is the snow in the mountains and around town. Piles of snow are stacking up in parking...
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