One of Montana's legendary trout flies, the girdle bug, was designed to imitate a large stonefly nymph, or "hellgrammite," as the local anglers on the Big Hole River call the big aquatic insects. Lost ...

Some people live for the blow of a big largemouth creaming a swimbait. Others can’t get enough smallmouths erupting on Spooks walking across the surface. And, sure, I love those things too, but come ...

Streamer flies can mimic a variety of forage, but none is more common than baitfish. Unlike dry flies that match floating insects, and nymphs that look like aquatic insects in their larval stages, ...

For those of you that read my columns but haven’t fished with me, and for those that don’t read my columns but have fished with me, you know I don’t like fly fishing with nymphs. In fact, I refuse to ...

The hot topic this past week in the fly shop centered on whether the rivers and other surrounding fisheries have peaked. Well, in looking at the Gore while I write this, it is far and away the highest ...

November and December are the prime months to fish for steelhead in Lake Erie tributaries. These fish measure 15 inches to more than 30 inches in length. A 30-inch fish will weigh about 10 pounds. For ...