February 2010
This week Pete and I headed west and found ourselves floating the Lower Madison looking for pre-spawn Rainbows. Those of you familiar with this stretch of water know that trying to unlock its secrets can be an exercise in futility. Pete and got lucky and hit the Madison on one of her good days and were rewarded with sun shine, low winds, and hungry trout. Though we did find a couple of fish from the boat, most were caught while wading and thoroughly fishing the small...
Here at The Bozeman Angler, if we're not on the water chasing winter trout, we're sitting at the tying bench, pounding away at feathers, dubbing, and flash to create tantalizing treats with big fish dreams dancing in our heads. It's fly tying season, anglers, and we aim to bring you the local masters so that you can trick...
This past week of decent weather has allowed us to move around local waters with comfortability and good fishing results. Tuesday I hiked the East Gallatin and finally got into my first good sized fish on the east for this Winter! Started off using tiny deer hair sculpin patterns size 8 and 10 and found some browns ready to attack. The sculpin pattern was the only thing i found that the browns keyed in on but the rest of the day was filled with angry macho rainbows going after...
This week, former Bozeman Angler spey guru, Lawrence Stuemke, joined Peter and I for a day on Armstrong's Spring creek. For those of you that haven't messed around on this world famous pieces of private water, this one of those places that can, and often does, humble the most skilled fly anglers. The water is about 50 degrees year round, gin clear, and full of educated trout. The fish this time of the year, like...
Recently, both Peter and I have had the itch to break away from winter wade fishing and get the boats out and float. So yesterday we drug my trusty RO drift boat out of storage and pulled it...