Archive : Montana

Craig Dilger for The New York Times After landing in Bozeman earlier this month, we went down to the local grocery store to pick up a couple things for our trip to the Madison.  We run into a cute twenty something checkout girl who has a fine looking hackle in her hair.  In the process of scanning...

[TABLE=3] This was a bad weather day.  Very windy overcast threatening snow and rain.  We put the boat in at Windy Point and came out at Ruby Creek.  I caught 2 small browns and Al didn’t catch anything.  After Ruby Creek, Brian, our guide took us to Raynolds Pass. Raynolds Pass is a beautiful...

[TABLE=2] Woke up had a great breakfast, packed our lunches and went off to meet our guide.  The lodge reserved our guide from Blue Ribbon Flies.  Our guide was newly hired Brian Wurley.  Brian used to work for Madison River Fishing and has been guiding this part of Montana for about 12 years.  Brian...

Well I finally made it to Montana.  The flight was pretty easy from Rochester to Chicago then to Bozeman.  Flying into Bozeman I could see all the mountains but I could also see a few rivers that looked very muddy.  I began to dread picking a date so early in June to fish Montana.  I was wondering...