I realize I have been a bit lax in getting some reports out lately but instead of coming up with a bunch of excuses, I’ll get right into...

September is maybe the best fishing of the year. It is for me at least. No crowds, cool water, and good flows. The mornings are cool, the...

Big Hole 372cfs Beaverhead 106cfs Jefferson 718cfs This report was sent to me recently with a request to publish it so here goes> We...

I arrived wed morning at the flyshop here in Divide. Art, “The Man” showed me the ropes: what to use, where and how to fish it, plus a...

Well, I guess its time I get started. This is Art, Al’s back pushing dirt so I am up. ...

Big Hole 307cfs Beaverhead 122cfs Jefferson 620cfs As you have probably noticed I have not been giving the flow on the Jefferson for...

Big Hole 261cfs Beaverhead 182cfs It feels like I might have to throw a log or two in the old wood stove tonight. Tricos are still...

Big Hole 269cfs Beaverhead 229cfs Hi. My name’s Josh – I’m a friend of Al’s son (Jason) and fished the Big Hole for the first time...

Big Hole 269cfs temp. 58 Beaverhead 228cfs The river is rising, the water temp. is cooling down and fishing is good. I would like to...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

In the Great Falls Tribune I read a story about Big Spring Creek in Lewistown, Montana. The state has released warnings of PCB...

Al, the fishing historian brought up an interesting trivia question the other day. As most of you probably know, Lewis and Clark had a...

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 ...