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Over the past few years there has been lots of talk about dam’s being removed to restore natural spawning grounds for the native steelhead and salmon running in from the Pacific coast. However, what action has actually happened? Is it all talk? Out here in Montana I tend to believe only a handful of us stay tuned to everything happening with current events happening on the coast such as this but obviously all of us who fish for steelhead and salmon should be very tuned... Read more

I was sitting on a balcony on Bourbon Street last month with Calvin, KK, Erik, the Trout Shop guys, and who knows who else. I was tired, the night before had been a big evening, and I hadn’t even realized the smell associated with the mayhem of the famous street in DT New Orleans. We were there, among many other fly shops, guides, and fly fishing suppliers of course, for the fly fishing retailer show. From the balcony you could see everything happening on the street... Read more

The Missouri River Fly-fishers met this Thursday for our monthly board meeting and guest Alan Rollo presented a great opportunity for some projects that benefit both the landowner and the recreationist, which is a perfect project for the MRF to support.  Alan, with the Sun River Watershed non-profit organization has been working on hard on water quality/habitat issues on the Sun River and its tributaries.   This past Thursday the MRF agreed to donate $6000 + to a new project... Read more

If you’ve been fishing caddis flies for any length of time, you probably have some understanding of the life cycle of tricoptera. The aquatic larvae of most species of caddis fly protect their developing bodies by constructing a casing spun from silk, then add clumps of plant material, particles of mineral, pieces of crustacean shell, grains of sand, bits of fish bone or any number of small objects the insect can find within its ecosystem. The images you see illustrate... Read more

Tomorrow we are having a Labor Day Red Bag sale. Anything you can stick in a Red Bag, you will get 15% off those items. Looking around the fly shop right now, I spy a 4 pcs. rod, large amount of hoppers and streamers, reels, lines, a can of dog food, clothing, tying supplies (no hackle though) and tons of other gear. Now is the time to fill back up on everything that was lost or beaten up this summer. We recently *D*'ed a lot of other products that have... Read more