Montana

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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Fly Fishing on the Kootenai River, Montana

by Wayne Mumford May 17, 2010

Fly Fishing Internet Radio’s upcoming show is featuring one of the local Montana guides, Dave Blackburn. Dave runs Kootenai Anglers out of Libby, Montana. Most people don’t even know where the Kootenai river is and guess what, I’m going to let you figure it out for yourself. Dave has been guiding up there for years [...]

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Man caught by giant pike

by Wayne Mumford May 1, 2010

Last week a “newb” fly fisherman caught a 47-inch, 29.7 pound pike out of Smith Lake near Kalispell; just a few minutes from our place. A lake that we actually fish quite a bit because it’s handy. Actually a LOT of locals fish this lake and for the last 4-5 years it has yielded nothing [...]

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Northern Pike Love

by Wayne Mumford March 24, 2010

A few days back local outdoor writer Bill Wire wrote an article denouncing the Northern Pike in Montana waters as the scourge of the trout world. While I unfortunately did not have the time to personally heap scorn and contempt upon his attempt to vilify Mr. Apex Predator numero uno, Bill Schneider took up the [...]

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Northwestern Montana lake meltdown

by Wayne Mumford March 22, 2010

Pond porn! Ice be gone! Unfortunately I’ve had damn little time to spend ice fishing or even tying up some flies. I’ve got a few grayling  bugs tied up but that’s it. Anyway, the good news is that spring is working it’s magic. It’s still staying cool but we’ve had very little precipitation and the [...]

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Whitetails in Montana

by Wayne Mumford November 23, 2009
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I’m really not much of a big game hunter and definitely not a horn or trophy hunter. My idea of hunting is much more culinary in nature, shoot the first legal size animal that comes along that’s in good shape and head home to more pressing (fishing type) matters. Pretty much opposite my approach to [...]

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Arctic Grayling

by Wayne Mumford May 4, 2009

Sunday we decided to make our first pilgrimage of the year to Rogers Lake for a Grayling slugfest. Two years ago the lake suffered from late summer heat that resulted in a significant loss of the Arctic Grayling in the lake. Last year the fishing still wasn’t bad but it definitely was not like previous [...]

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Summer Days

by Wayne Mumford August 11, 2008

Like a good boy, this morning I did a few chores around the house. I went out and did a quick job so no one could accuse me of being a slacker. Then I checked out. To go play in the puddles. I caught three trout that pounded an olive biot body soft hackle till [...]

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