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It rains, it snows, it blows…

by Wayne Mumford June 8, 2009

Up here in the northwest part of Montana we managed to slip through without getting snowed on this weekend and other than wind, the weather call turned out better than expected. If you happen to be on the Missouri you are probably wondering if you have been beamed back into April.
Like the rest of the [...]

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Montana SB 425, Fort Peck Hatchery funding bill passes

by Wayne Mumford February 23, 2009

While the details are of course vague in the bills official description, one thing is now certain; funding shortfalls for the Fort Peck Walleye Hatchery are now secured by “REVENUE IN THE GENERAL LICENSE ACCOUNT OR any FEDERAL funding available to the department”.
And how do you interpret that? I think I hear the cash registers [...]

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Federation of Fly Fishers Conclave- game on!

by Wayne Mumford July 24, 2008

The Federations conclave is under way in Whitefish. I haven’t been up yet but will attend Saturday. Work postponed my trip to the Mo’ for a week so I get to go. I popped into Lakestream today on my way through town and it was cram packed with conclavers, guides hooking up with clients, fly [...]

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The one that got away, current Montana river flows and conditions…

by Wayne Mumford July 13, 2008

After the fourth of July fly fishing orgy I am home grounded this weekend by commitments and yard work that the kids (who were off fishing) should have done this week. The worse part about the yard is that I can’t really jump them about it because I am just as bad, if not worse, [...]

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Western Montana conditions

by Wayne Mumford June 4, 2008

If you like cream in your coffee then you have a pretty good idea what the color of the rivers are now. Pump it out the end of a giant firehose and you get an idea what flows are like. Even the tailwaters are cranking.

The weather has basically consisted of rain storms that vary from [...]

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Northwest Montana Rivers at Flood stage

by Wayne Mumford May 20, 2008

The Flathead peaked out at flood stage on Monday. All the rivers of northwest Montana were at flood stage Monday but were beginning to recede today. Forecast is for rain showers throughout the week and river flows back flirting with flood levels again Thursday.
Think lake fishing or tail waters. If you are traveling and looking [...]

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Perfectly-miserable

by Wayne Mumford April 15, 2008

It rains, it snows, it blows. A brief moment of sun, long enough to fool your body into thinking its going to get warmed up and then the sky closes in again for another round of the same. I am not sure if it is me or if its a common human condition but my [...]

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At last, escape to the water…

by Wayne Mumford March 9, 2008

I couldn’t hack it anymore, I’ve been waiting for warm enough temps to bring up some kind of fly, didn’t matter what, just something. Was supposed to stretch to 50° today so, taking the bait I made a run for the lower Flathead outside Kalispell.
Unfortunately the wind pretty much grounded the flying insects so I [...]

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