Bozeman Angler

The weather has been up and down as per usual for June in Montana.  From bright warm sunshine to chilly afternoon downpour this month has given us good reason to pack some rain gear along with some suncreen.  Ken Stock was guiding client John doing some walk wading on the Upper Madison and getting it done.  The fishing has been awesome and consistent with rubberlegs and lightning bugs underneath with a few good caddis and stonefly dries.

The Bozeman Angler has been managing a number of private water lakes and reservoirs for the last 9 years.  The trout have been eating very well and growing to monster size by now.  This is one of the best times of the year to fish them as they are fresh and ravenous after the spring thaw.  We had a couple of anglers up there the other day and it looks like the trout are doing just fine if not better than we've ever seen them.  Nothing cooler than seeing a ten plus pound rainbow tailwalk across the surface of the water as you wonder if your 1x tippet will hold!

Yes the big bugs are out on the big hole river right now and the fishing has been stellar.  Plenty of big pterenarcys adults on the water and fluttering in the willows making more Salmon flies.  We really like doing a dry dropper rig with a orange bodied stonefly nymph as a trailer on a 0x leader with 2x to the dropper, really helps turn em over.  Found a few dry patterns this year that have worked quite nicely for us those being the Morrish fluttering stone and Quigley's bedhead stone.

Had a two boat trip on the Upper Madison go out yesterday with guides Ken and Travis.  They all caught some nice fish and had a blast floating down one of the most beautiful rivers in the world.  This nice young lady Brooke enjoyed putting the wood to some big brown trout as Ken so graciously rowed her down river.  Both Ken and Travis's boats of anglers did well getting some nice eats on the twisted wire soft hackle nymph.  Ken likes this fly a lot but he likes to pull the rubberlegs off them?

Come down to the Bozeman Angler this Friday June 7th from 9-12:00am to meet the Mountain Khakis crew and get free shwag!

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