BIG SALE TODAY Half Price Flies!!

TODAY and TODAY ONLY Half Price Fly Sale. Yes, true…Customer Appreciation Sale @ Headhunters Fly Shop.

BBQ this afternoon too. Just the normal fare, starting about4pm.

Music at Izaak’s late afternoon, about 6 pm is the word. Double Bill too…

We will see you all later, before or after the fishing day.

Remember, you, the customer, RULE…and we appreciate you. Thanks.

SOL's Dad does not care about inclement weather...NO!

Common weather trends…if you go back ten years, previous to the drought years. SOL’s 2nd year guiding, snow over the Labor Day Weekend.

Not this year. Knock on Wood my friends.

Headhunters hosting our 3rd Annual Labor Day Weekend BBQ. This year, unfortunately, no Bikini Boat Wash. I know, shitty. Took the life right out of ya. Me too.

We will whip up some BBQ items, dogs, sausages, sauerkraut, beans, some sort of mystery meats as well. How about Sunday afternoon post lunch? Sounds good to me, Wiffle Ball too. A little casting, and maybe even an ad-hoc contest. I’m a gamer. You?

Mouth watering smells, sights, sounds...tasty too

How about a Customer Appreciation Labor Day Half Price Fly Sale? That’s right. Let’s party, and buy a grocery bag full of flies. Dry flies, nymphs will be flying out the door @ $1. Hoppers and big dries will be priced @ $1.25 with Streamers @ $1.50-2.00…Refill those fly boxes for the fall. Get yer BWO’s, various permutations of PT’s, and dam midges. Stock for next year and your favorite Hopper patterns, i.e. Morrish’s, and pack your streamer bin full of double bunny’s Skiddish Smolts and R2R’s. Fly Sale Sunday during the BBQ at Headhunters Fly Shop from 12pm til 8pm.

“And by the way…when is the last time a fly shop showed you their appreciation? Hmmm. Think about it. Discounted flies? Yes indeed. A no holds barred fly free for all!!”

Also on sale at Headhunters this weekend…SIMMS Flats boots, Guide boots, Pursuit Sandals, Felt Headwaters wading boots, ECHO 2 fly rods, and selected shorts and pants.

While in the store be sure to notice our NEW HH HOODY’s in Brown and Indigo…and the Kovich HH Signature TShirts in both long and short sleeve, or choose the Sport-Tek version.

Whoop it up this Sunday @ Izaak'

Izaak’s has  two really great performers on The Log Jam. Downtown Craig’s finest outdoor music venue. They will start rockin’  Sunday, September 5 beginning about 6 pm John Floridis will open for Tom Catmull and The Clerics.

So, in conjunction with the BBQ, a Half Price Fly Sale, the fabulous fishing, the coolest people on earth, the kick-ass fly shop row in the Central Business District…hang out and enjoy the autumn afternoon in the world’s finest trout town.

Headhunters Fly Shop and Guide Service…sponsoring the greatest events on the Missouri River.

Yummy...food

Friday at Headhunters Fly Shop…BBQ sausages, dogs, and whatever else tastes good burnt on our charcoal Weber. We think about 5 ish we will get the coals red and open a cold Budweiser to start the weekend off right. Montana loves this way of life.

Come spend the late afternoon into evening with your favorite friends on the Missouri. We will be tossing the football around, swinging the Wiffle ball bat, and maybe tossing a fly rod or two as well.

Stop in for a dog, a chat, or the entire evening after fishing Friday.

Headhunters…the apres fishing locale in downtown Craig Montana.

No rail cars...

No more rail cars clogging up grip and grin shots. Just blue skies and smiles. Cheezy huh.

Cloud cover today for the first time in a millennium. The fish appreciated the scalding sun, as we did too. Threatening T-storms as I write, but nothing a good Simms rain jacket and a couple Budweiser’s cannot quell. Tomorrow: Partly cloudy with a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Highs 70 to 80. West winds 5 to 15 mph. Says the weather guessers. I predict great fishing with lots of fish over 20″. I’m not right every day either. But some days…

Fly Fish Chick is in town for a spell. She has completed the canoe race, and was not looking forward to rowing the boat for her mother and daughter. She did say she could cast a fly rod if needed. Check out her BLOG for her post race coverage…

Coming in pal...

SOL’s Fly of the Day: Buzzball

Dry Fly of the Week: Double Duck Caddis

Nymph of the Week: Nitro Caddis Pupa or Hogan’s PMD Military May

Streamer of the Week: Really, with heads up, streamers?

Sleeper Fly of the Week: Etha Wing Caddis, small

Secret Fly of the Week: All Stages Caddis

Popular Float of the Week: WC to Craig

Capt Carp says: I’m high on life.

SOL says: These early mornings are for people with real jobs.

Scumliner says: Stop in for a chat, or 6 dozen flies.

B & E Ben says: Guiding, Bud Light, Izaak’s, short sleep, repeat.

Aquaman says: I like dry fly fishing, small creeks too.

Napa Niel says: Everybody having a good time? Cause I am.

Headhunters Staff says: Come in early for flies, coffee, advice, and lightening quick service. Come in late for anything else.

Yes, a brown trout, again

Caught on a Harrop’s Rusty Paraspinner. Paul T loves this fly. He loves to break rods whilst fishing this great caddis pattern.

Check out Paul T on our teaser video by Scumliner on our Home Page. He is the guy breaking his Scott G2 while fighting a fish last year, one year ago today.

Will we have success fishing the evening bite like we did last year? I suspect we will Paul. They are, and unless they axe me this year, my longest term clients. Again, how can they handle it?

2nd Trestle on the upper river

As you can see above, we can wade fish now! For those in the know, you are already here and angling. The water will continue to come down in the week ahead. Will you be making your dry fly dreams come true…with us at Headhunters. Is it perfect yet? No. Is it damn close? Yes.

Stay tuned to the USGS site and arrive when you are comfortable with the flow. Most wade fishers like 6000 cfs or less. You be the judge, more like 5000 cfs. I agree with the latter, but what do I know, I’m just an oar whore.

Our fish are so nice and big. We love it. Wasn’t that big water for the last 3 years worth it? Damn Straight. Ask me this question again in 2 years when the fish are…?

Ohhh, boy

Deserves another look today at 82 year old Bill. He throws a dry better than most of the young whippersnappers on the river. Truly!

Just look at the size of this monster…Bill got this beauty on the 3rd cast. Dyno-mite.

The water is on the way down. It is going the right direction, at least for a while. Are we excityed. Yes.

You folks must have done your jigs, dances, or what ever you do to get the attention of the fish gods, the water gods, or the fella who controls the knobs at the dam.

Thank you for the water Mother Nature…now stay away for a while.

Another good one!