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 I watched the whole thing, so I thought everyone should have to. Read more

Give it up for our man Sam Schmidt for landing this incredible 28" brown down in the Big Hole. What else is there to do during a beauty of a Fall weekend in Montana? By the way, nice hat Sam! Read more

We had our meeting with Cortland fly lines who were once the kings of the fly line business.  They also produce the new Climax leaders which have had a great response in our shop with their 98% knot stregth promotion.  The new rep is Tom Harman, and he was the owners of Harman's Fly Shop in Sheridan on the Ruby River.  Harman's fly shop at one time boasted the most fly patterns in the state with 5,000 bins in a town you realize you are driving in to at the... Read more

Big R Fly Shop of Great Falls will be hosting a spey casting class on Saturday November 6th, presented by Bruce Berry of Beulah Fly Rods. “Bruce is and excellent caster and will show you how to make those difficult transitions from single handed to double handed techniques,” says James Shaugnessy, CEO of Beulah Fly Rods. “You will be impressed by his smooth application of power and easy to understand demonstrations on transitions from switch casting to single spey, double... Read more

     It's hard to decide what to do on a weekend in the fall. There are so many things that one can do. From hunting big game, or going after some ducks, taking the dog out for some pheasants, or deciding what river to go to and fish for some fall browns or maybe even head west and try one's luck at catching a steelhead.      This past weekend we decided to go try our luck. Now I will admit that I had pretty much written off Spey... Read more

We have been spending a lot of time working on bringing products with real applications for the mountain life, river bums, and ranch hands. These are products that we have tested ourselves (not just taken the companies word for it), and believe are truly superior to others out there. We have chosen products to try in the stores that have quality and performance charactoristics that apply to these "mountain" lifestyles. One of our newest... Read more

“School of Tarpon coming towards us, Two o’clock!”. Hearing your guide say that never gets old… but it was about the tenth time I had heard it the past few hours and I hadn’t felt the tug yet. Nonetheless, I worked out some line and started false casting to a spot where I knew the fish would be moving through. This was a good school, eight to ten fish swimming near the surface, high and happy, which I later discovered meant they were more likely... Read more

  I’ve been hearing how people don’t hunt ducks because they don’t like to eat them since I could walk. So last year a friend of mine who works at for the Reno Fly Shop invited my girlfriend and I to stay at his cabin at the Canvasback Duck club near Fallon, NV. I was probably more excited than my girlfriendabout the opportunity. This place is more than a standard duck club, these guys take waterfowl hunting to a different level. We stayed in a 400 square foot... Read more

Opening day is Sat. for waterfowl on the pacific flyway.  Make sure you have your duck stamp, shotgun, streamer box, and 6 weight in the boat. The youth shoots the week before gave up limits.  Should be a good season.  Honkers are flying all day.  Pray for some cold weather this weekend (or at least not 80 degrees). Big R now has Mojo, Drake, Benelli, Beretta, Blackcloud, Quackhead, RNT, Duck Commander, Avery, and more waterfowl products on the shelf to get things... Read more