It was quite the year!  With consistent flows in the Madison River, as well as the Fish, Wildlife, and Park’s hard data of historically high trout numbers, our guets experienced first hand the thrill of the Madison River during the 2010 fly fishing season!  Overall, the cool spring, summer and mellow fall also kept all our area…

With winter upon us, our rods are put away and we find ourselves daydreaming about what was in 2011, and anxious for more great fishing in 2012.  There are some die hard fly fisherman still hitting the water, but the ice chunks and short days personally have me reflecting on 2011 instead of out on the…

Yellow sallies, pmds, mayflies, caddis, midges, AND salmon flies ~ oh my!  The Madison River is a walking advertisement for trout-rich insect life right now.  We are happily experiencing the benefits of an extraordinary snow pack that then lead to a big run off.  In fact, our area rivers’ flows are just coming down with…

May 8th, 2011 Spring fishing is in full swing and we can’t ask for anything better ~ our wild trout are in a feeding frenzy after the long winter!  The brown girdle bug takes the cake for catching the most trout so far.  This rubber legged stone fly nymph imitation seems irresistible. Right on time, the famous…

The 2010 season was spectacular!  I look forward to posting a year-in-review fishing blog later in the month…In the meantime, I want to share Dan Larson’s report from Yellowstone National Park: Here are a few photos from the last week of fishing the Madison River in Yellowstone National Park this year. Perhaps the best year…

The dry fly action has already kicked off, despite the fact that the rivers are still running a bit high and cloudy with run-off finishing up.  The salmon flies hatching near Ennis are a great sign that they should stick around for a couple more weeks, slowing moving up the River.  Plenty of comical stories…

BIG, healthy wild trout and a healthy mountain snowpack sum up the Spring Fishing season at the Madison Valley Ranch.  When our first group of the season returned to the Ranch after fishing in some cold temperatures with “evidence” (photos, friends and guides simultaneously collaborating the pictures) of four of them each catching a 20 inch trout,…

Midges, midges and more midges…the Madison River has been experiencing some awesome midge hatches and you can’t walk around town without hearing the buzz (literally at times ~ I had to swat a few away yesterday as I walked the property). With the days warming up and the sun moving higher in the sky, midge…

The ice on the banks is finally melting enough to get access to some of our favorite fishing holes.  Although still a bit precarious, we’ve been braving the cold water temperatures to sneak in a couple afternoon hours for some great winter fishing! Not surprising, the trout are pretty easy to find this time of…

Moving into the holiday season, our rods seem to be spending more time on the rod holder than on the river!  But with cooler temperatures and snow covering the ground ’tis the season’ as they say.  For folks braving the cold, the standard Madison River nymphs with some heavy split shot have tempted many wild…