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[travelingwithtools]

Fly Fishing Scenes, August in Montana

I started the month down on the Crow Reservation, on the Bighorn river below Yellowtail dam. Cottonwood camp was the base for the first few nights, then I moved to the Bighorn access point downstream. A nasty thunderstorm blew in and threatened the huge tree I was parked under, so I beet feet up to the campsite right below the dam, snatching the last open spot on a Friday afternoon. (click any…

Fly Fishing Scenes, August in Montana

[travelingwithtools]

Labor Day Fish Tales from Montana

I’ve spent the last couple of weeks on Hebgen Lake, near West Yellowstone, chasing callibaetis-eating rainbows and browns. Today, on my last day on the lake, I found an honest to God “gulper”, a fish that’s eating bugs on a steady tempo… about one every three seconds. That allows you to predict where to place your fly, so that the fish might take it on the next gulp. In all my previous visits,…

Labor Day Fish Tales from Montana

[travelingwithtools]

Gulpers on the South Fork Arm of Hebgen Lake

July, 2021 I caught a few fish on the first day out from the float tube, but they were on a leech pattern under the surface, and I was searching for gulpers. They are the famous Hebgen trout that methodically eat emerging and spent callibaetis mayflies over a long stretch of the summer, making this lake one of the best in the west for dry fly fishing. There wasn’t much action on top that first…

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[phasmidmt]

Montana summer is here. Hot, still, and a little smokey. We had a great little getaway to Hebgen Lake. The fishing stunk, but the food and company was great! #phasmidrentals #exlpore-rentals #explore_mt_adventures

We can get you here! Montana summer is here. Hot, still, and a little smokey. We had a great little getaway to Hebgen Lake. The fishing stunk, but the food and company was great! #phasmidrentals #exlpore-rentals #explore_mt_adventures

[toridumke-blog]

Where I should be.