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Bear Trap Canyon in the sun

Took a nice hike into Bear Trap Canyon on sunday after a saturday afternoon report from Sam Bergman that he had gone up that way and fished midge dries all day long.  That was all i needed in making my decision on where to fish.  I didn't find too many fish rising when i started the day so i threw nymphs at first.  As with usual madison activity the trout just hammered pink sex flies and pink scuds (both size 14 and 16).  I also tried olive and copper zonkers (size 4-6) dead drifted at first which worked just fine and then decided to twitch them downs

The Mighty Missouri

Friday i had the good fortune of fishing the missouri river, a truly amazing piece of big water with big fish close enough to bozeman to be able to get in the water after a 45 minute drive, depending on were you access.  First i tried the go to Delekta sex fly in size 14(killer bug all over right now) trailed by midge pupas(red and grey twinkles size 18 and zebra midge size 18). A fairly standard pattern for the missouri which produced a couple decent trout then i noticed fish rising to the incredible adult midge hatch these sunny days have been bring

Gallatin river in the canyon

Last thursday i woke up with the burning desire to hike and find different spots in the gallatin canyon.  I spent the first thirty minutes of the day just moving my feet to get away from the usual spots.  My efforts were generously awarded with first stumbling upon a pod of trout in slow gin clear water occasionally rising to midges.  After landing about ten gorgeous 10"-14" rainbows on orange blood worms (size 14) and olive, black, or brown rubberlegs (size 6-10) i felt confident enough to switch to dries.

Lower Madison, Gallatin, and East Gallatin

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!

Lower Madison Streamer Fishing

The lower madison is beginning to show it's fall colors and big browns are looking to feed as they begin to spawn.