Trout Jerkey Success
I can finally report that my experiment with Smoked Trout Jerkey was a success. On Saturday I went float-tubing on a local lake with...
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Apr 14, 2004
Winston Rod Company is Outsourcing
I read that the Winston Fly Rod Company is going to start outsourcing it’s rod building to China. Whatever the reasoning is for this...
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Mar 30, 2004
Mud Snails, Whirling and zebra Mussels – Oh My!
I read on Montana's FWP site that Whirling disease and mud snails have a new partner in making Montana river ecosystems a little less...
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Mar 27, 2004
The Other Film Festival In The Mountains
There was a time when the Sundance Film Festival held in Utah, didn't draw too much attention from Hollywood moguls. But that was then...
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Mar 23, 2004
Family Visit
It's become customary on the Big Hole River Journal for clients to make entries from time to time. Today, Al took my wife Carla and I on...
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Mar 23, 2004
Searching For New Water?
Al is the expert on Montana rivers and lakes. He could probably tell you twenty different places to wet a fly within fifty miles in one...
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Mar 22, 2004
Personal Fishing Log
I read on Montana's FWP page, how anglers who kept personal fishing logs helped track the first cases of Whirling disease in Montana to...
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Mar 20, 2004
Smoked Trout Jerky
As a catch and release fisherman, I find myself in the akward position of keeping a trout from time to time. On those rare occasions I...
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Mar 19, 2004
Big Spring Creek, the FWP and PCBs
In the Great Falls Tribune I read a story about Big Spring Creek in Lewistown, Montana. The state has released warnings of PCB...
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Mar 18, 2004
River Name Quiz
Al, the fishing historian brought up an interesting trivia question the other day. As most of you probably know, Lewis and Clark had a...
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Mar 17, 2004
Maiden Rock Area
Big Hole River 03/17/04 cfs-410 air temp 54 Maiden Rock Area Flies used-#6 olive wooly bugger. Landed around 12 trout, all browns ...
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Mar 16, 2004
and the rains came
Big Hole 205cfs and rising Beaverhead 266 We asked mother nature to help us out in our time of need and she did. It's raining at this...
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Mar 15, 2004
Photos of the Big Hole River
When Al and Art talk about places on the Big Hole like Maiden Rock and Jerry's Creek it's a bit hard to imagine what area they're talking...
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Mar 15, 2004
voluntary restrictions
Big Hole 200cfs, water temp. 63 Beaverhead 277cfs Tricos and spruce moths are still the main menu with most of the big fish taken on...
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Mar 12, 2004
In search of the hoppers
Big Hole 252cfs Water temp. 63 Beaverhead 258cfs Yesterday Art and I both had the day off so we decided to float the lower Beaverhead...
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Mar 9, 2004
moths and tricos
The last few days the flow in the Big Hole has dropped considerably. It went from 350 cfs a few days ago to 269 this morning. As of this...
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Mar 7, 2004
birds of prey
The Big Hole is fishing pretty much the same. Tricos in the morning, hoppers and large attractors in the afternoon. I wasn't on the...
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Mar 6, 2004
Perfect conditions
Big hole 356 cfs water temp 59 Beverhead 290 Hi folks, Art here. Al finally got me. We have been looking for spruce moths and they are...
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Mar 6, 2004
Protecting the Bull Trout
Although I've never caught a Bull Trout, the benefits of protecting it as a species are obvious. In the Missoulian I read an article...
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Mar 6, 2004
Cane Versus Graphite/Glass Rods
After recently breaking my Scott 3-wt. rod a couple of weeks back, I was curious about how strong graphite and fiberglass rods actually...
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