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We’ve been fishing out on the Gallatin the past couple days with some luck. We started fishing close to the canyon and have been working downstream since. Closer to the canyon we were able to find some deep runs that were just filled with rainbows, and of course lots of whitefish. They were mainly hitting dead drifted olive bead head buggers, zonkers, prince nymphs, and San Juan worms. The next day we decided to pack our bags and head out to the Big City (aka. Manhattan) where the East Gallatin dumps into the Gallatin. Here we encountered some descent browns and some more bows.

thought some of you might be interested in seeing this. How many mice can a brown trout fit in its belly? Also, if you havent seen it yet check out thisisfly.com, it is a great online publication on fly fishing. One of my favorites.

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

Every year I like to get out for a weekend and strictly relax. This year I decided to do that on Labor day with a couple friends of mine, so we hit up a small tributary of the Gallatin. On our trip I was the only person to fish, and from what it seemed I was about the only one on the stream as well!

Yesterday I had the privilege of taking my good friend Mr. Bill Jimmerson with the Montana FFA Association fly fishing for his first time. Being his first time fly fishing I wanted to get him started on the right foot so I decided to take him up for a couple hours to Hyalite Creek. Now for those of you who have fished Hyalite it's a small stream outside of Bozeman that dumps into a reservoir and then later into the Gallatin River.

There are those days when you don't catch fish that just suck. 30 degrees and hailing and having to walk uphill both ways to get there. Today was NOT one of those days, in fact we even caught a fish or two! I was fishing a section of private water near Livingston with my good friend Race. This was Race's first time fly fishing and what a day to do it! We started off getting to the water around 10:00 am and the Pale Morning Dun hatch was spectacular! We started off with the basics and were tossing a simple Parachute Adam's in size 14.