Montana Largemouth Bass

Todays Drift

by Wayne Mumford May 2, 2011

Aaron Jasper- The Evolution of Nymphing This week on Ask About Fly Fishing (internet radio). “Aaron Jasper goes where the fish are and most of the time it’s under the surface. He’s spent the last few years studying, researching and testing old and new nymphing methods. On this show we explore many of those methods [...]

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Yet Another Trip to the Toad Hole

by Wayne Mumford August 16, 2010

Last weekend I did finally hook into a decent largemouth (4lb. class) with a foam frog on top water. Unfortunately the little beasts enthusiasm for the bug landed the hook right on the edge of his first gill raker and I didn’t get the hero shot in lieu of getting him back in the water [...]

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Foam Topwater Bass Bugs

by Wayne Mumford July 18, 2010

I’m staggering to the finish of ten day absence from the US workforce, vacation in other words. One can never be to prepared for vacation, blown boat trailer tires, boat trailer wiring meltdowns, truck front ends falling apart and such. I’m trying to figure out what nasty thing I did to be visited the the [...]

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Noxon Bass Road Trip

by Wayne Mumford July 12, 2010

Friday we bailed for the Jr. Bassmaster qualifier at Noxon Reservoir. The weather was finally looking up but water temperatures and color were a mystery. Turns out the water has been cooler but clarity was pretty good. There were still some fish finishing up spawning unfortunately one familiar area was so choked with Millfoil (Myriophyllum [...]

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Montana warm water wake up call

by Wayne Mumford June 1, 2010

It’s not exactly warm in western Montana yet. True, the snow pack is coming off and most of the bigger rivers are blasting out some water but it’s not really the massive mud blast like a lot of years. The smaller streams and basins are dropping into good flows again. The lakes and back waters [...]

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Killer Topwater Bass bugs for Flyfishing

by Wayne Mumford February 4, 2010
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There is definitely a shortage of is good websites and blogs about fly fishing for bass and unfortunately here in Montana, as rare as good bass fishing itself. You really have to hunt and have the timing down around here. If Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks weren’t such trout snobs, we could have a good [...]

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Fall Largemouth

by Wayne Mumford September 28, 2009

First the confession, no flies were involved here. The toads were down deep in the lily pad stems. The weatherman says today is the end of our long run of unseasonably warm fall weather and the water temps reflect that; they are still pretty warm. Once the coming frost nicks the weeds then I will [...]

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Whuppin’ stick

by Wayne Mumford July 5, 2009

After new technology overload, trying to start the motor on our new fishing platform which happens to already be over ten years old, we got down to some fishing. This time I did not even unsheath the fly rod. To many times in the last few weeks I have come out blazing with the “fairy [...]

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