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Rainbow Trout

Ammonite Nymph, one tasty looking bug

by Wayne Mumford February 23, 2009

I was looking around for information on using latex for nymph bodies after seeing a few samples around in magazines, the web and so forth and ran into this article on UK tyer Steve Thornton at Global Flyfisher. The picture of the Ammonite Nymph got me stoked to go ahead and try doing some latex [...]

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Fishing Montana’s Missouri River

by Wayne Mumford August 7, 2008

Decent weather, plenty of water, lots of Caddis, a river full of big fish and I had the worst run of the summer. People who know the river will no doubt wonder about about my fishing abilities, and indeed I am too. It may take weeks to get my game back on. Nothing like a [...]

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Fishing the small drainages and lakes

by Wayne Mumford June 26, 2008

With flows in most rivers still pretty high it never hurts to look into the smaller drainages that clear out fast and start slowing down long before the bigger rivers. This Rainbow, at 17 inches, came out of one of Montana’s smaller drainages this last weekend. The fish fell for a #8 BH Gold Hares [...]

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Montana’s muddy waters

by Wayne Mumford May 27, 2008

Despite being more or less a working weekend there was still a few hours of fishing. We saw a lot of muddy water between Kalispell and Anaconda, mainly the Clark Fork which was running bank full. We ended up lake fishing of course and it was pretty good going. It was a battle of the [...]

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Bighorn River flows cut

by Wayne Mumford May 7, 2008

Lack of snow melt prompted officials at Yellowtail Dam on the Bighorn River to cut flows today. The reservoir above Yellowtail was not filling fast enough because of cooler spring temps holding the snow in the mountains. Flows were set at 1950 fps, they will be reduced to 1500 fps.
The move may jeopardize this years [...]

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Hungry Rainbow Trout

by Wayne Mumford April 11, 2008

Things are looking up. We are supposed to be heading into a three or four day run of good weather, they say 70’s? Thats a bit warm to fast but it should wake things up quick.
I’ve been plotting to hit this hole for awhile but someone usually beats me to it, not today. Work had [...]

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