Welcome to the latest installment of the Wednesday Wake-Up Call, a roundup of the most pressing conservation issues important to anglers. Working with our friends at Trout Unlimited, Backcountry Hunters & Anglers, the Theodore Roosevelt . . .
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5 Flies for the Mother’s Day Caddis Hatch
Each year at about this time, a great natural wonder occurs: huge clouds of small, dark caddisflies appear on most of Western rivers. Mother’s Day caddis (Brachycentrus americanus) emerge in huge numbers and are the first really big hatch of the . . .
Read MorePro Tips: How to Fish Southwest Montana’s Early-Season Midge Hatches
Fishing with midges is great here in southwest Montana during early spring, as trout begin to key in on these tiny yet abundant insects. Midges are often the first–and sometimes the only–aquatic insect emerging at this time. . .
Read MorePro Tips: 3 Ways to Improve Your Approach
Approaching trout with care is one of the easiest aspects of fly-fishing to get right, yet it’s also one of the most commonly neglected. The fact that novices can’t often see the trout gives them a false sense of security that. . .
Read MorePro Tips: Fishing Montana’s Smaller Trout Streams
Written by: The Staff of Montana Angler
It’s not the Madison or the Yellowstone, but streams like this offer great fly fishing for trout.
All photos courtesy Montana Angler
As the winter snow flies in Montana, it is easy for the mind to wander to warmer days spent exploring the intimate streams that we fly anglers hold near and dear to our hearts. Perhaps a sense of . . .
Read MoreClassic Tips: 5 Keys to Winter Streamer Fishing
If you’re heading out on the river to fish streamers in winter, you need to think a little differently. Here are a few of my best tips for adjusting tactics to score when the mercury is low: . . .
Read MoreClassic Tips: “Skitch” Your Way to Better Hopper Fishing
Written by: Tim Linehan, Linehan Outfitting Co.
Sometimes a little motion is what the trout are looking for in a hopper.
Photo by Sandy Hays
A couple years ago, while floating the Kootenai River in northwestern Montana, Bostonians––and fellow Red Sox fans––Tom and Sue Ukena had a great morning sniping trout with long leaders and size 16 Pale Morning Dun spinners. During lunch, . . .
Read MorePro Tips: How to Make the Most of Late-Summer “Hoppertunities”
Terrestrial season on many western rivers is just getting going. When most anglers think western terrestrial fishing, they think grasshoppers. When hoppers are in abundance, they are a great food source for trout when not much else is hatching in . . .
Read MoreClassic Video: Hatch—Big Sky PMDs, by Todd Moen
Here’s an amazing video from Todd Moen, of Catch Magazine, featuring some incredible dry-fly fishing during the annual pale morning dun hatch on McCoy’s Spring Creek and other. . .
Read MoreVideo: How to Tie the Bighorn CDC X-Caddis
The original CDC Black Caddis was tied by David Dill, a former Montana Highway Patrol captain who turned to his passions for fly fishing and fly tying upon retirement from the force. Dill’s fly. . .
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