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Missouri River - March 28th, 2013
  • Recorded:
  • Mostly sunny
  • 57 ° F 
  • Fishing: Great

Fishing has been very productive on the river these days.  Nymphing with midges and firebead stuff has still been working great.  Midge clusters drys and soft hackles are working when the fish are slurping the surface.  Folks have been coming in all week with grins on their faces enjoying this beautifully calm weather. 

The fishing is about to pick up big time.  With high temps forecasted around 60 degrees this weekend, the water temp is going to rise as well.  This warmer water temp will bring more active and aggressive fish to your hook.  Although the streamer fishing has been a bit slow, the warmer water temps will get the fish on the move for stripping action.  A slight chance of rain is also in the forecast for this weekend, making for very promising dry fly activity.

Be ready for the baetis attack.  It will be here very soon.

 
Missouri River - March 11th, 2013
  • Recorded:
  • Cloudy
  • 32 ° F 
  • Fishing: Great
Fishing has been pretty consistent for us on the Mo recently.  Mostly we have been nymphing the usual winter patterns... the Good, the Pink, and the Firebead patterns are all producing fish especially in the slow to walking speed water.  However, clouds are bringing fish to the surface for some pretty decent midge action.  You certainly don't want to head out without some midge pattern inventory.  Streamer fishing is now becoming very consistent.  Nearly every pattern we used this past few days has produced... however some better than others.  We caught fish on the flashy flies like the Skiddish Smolt but the one that really moved some fish this weekend was Aram's Lil Kim.  There is a whole brand new selection in the shop now.  9000 flies showed up just before the weekend as well so the bins and selection is shaping up.  Flows dropped about 1000cfs before the weekend but didn't seem to affect the fish as much as usual.  We have a bit of a front that came in today and some colder temps... we will see what that leaves us with...
 
Missouri River - March 4th, 2013
  • Recorded:
  • Snow showers
  • 20 ° F 
  • Fishing: Good
Snow today, warmer tomorrow.  The Fish are biting.  There are so many of them too.  I'm in the fly shop.  I'd rather be fishing. Fly tying materials are flying off the shelves.  Hot flies are filling boxes. Anglers are waking up as are the trout. Tomorrow will be a great day to fish.
 
Missouri River - February 27th, 2013
  • Recorded:
  • Partly cloudy
  • 33 ° F 
  • Fishing: Great

I was out on Monday for a few hours of fishing with Brian Neilsen of Fin Fetchers.  I spent about twenty minutes swinging a streamer with no love.  Pulled out my nymphing rig and found that I was on top of a whole bunch of hungry fish that could not leave an orange egg or a pink soft hackle alone.  It was literally a fish a drift for some time.  Then we drove around and could not find another spot that was either not too windy or already occupied by anglers.  We were already content with the fishing we’d had, so we got home early for spousal points.  Maybe we are getting smarter in our advancing age.

Fish a Pink Soft Hackle Sow Bug where riffles dump into deeper holes.  I like to use a longer leader than most, usually about 8’ from indicator to split shot with the egg 16” below on 3X and the soft hackle another 24” off that on 5X.  With a small shot, this rig will drift through the skinny water and if unmolested, can drop into the deep where it will eventually get chomped.  Hit the slightest tic or speed change on the indicator.  Fish on.

Tight Lines,

Fred Telleen 

 
Missouri River - February 21st, 2013
  • Recorded:
  • Cloudy
  • 25 ° F 
  • Fishing: Great

Great day fishing yesterday.  Pulled up around Wolf Creek Bridge with no wind and gray skies and the midge hatch was on!  Fish were rising and without the wind you could hear all of the top water slurping.  A very nice sound indeed.  Midge clusters (Grizzly and Fore and Aft) seemed to worked best.  When things died down up top, Juju's, lightning bugs, and soft hackles were working very well.  The guides were freezing up a bit, but any day without the wind is a good day.

 
Missouri River - February 18th, 2013
  • Recorded:
  • Windy
  • 50 ° F 
  • Fishing: Great
Fishing on the Missouri was pretty good this weekend.  Although we heard lots of good reports about the midge fishing I think the wind blew any chance of clusters forming and so we stuck to the nymph game most of the day.  Fished Zebra Midges, Tailwater Charlies, Hot Head shtuff, and other winter/early spring producers and had pretty consistent fishing throughout the day.  Reports were also good down in the canyon on streamers but our results weren't as good with streamers above Craig.  A few more warm days though and we should be in business on the streamer game.