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.

I rock Headhunters

Come out this weekend. Fun times. Fishing is good. Drinking is better, with some BBQ, and cheap flies.

Customer Appreciation Weekend at Headhunters Fly Shop & Guide Service...tomorrow BBQ and Half Price Fly Sale…and music @ Izaak’s…if you dig that kind of thing.

As always free coffee, BS, information, customer service, and some education for good measure.

Headhunters loves you my friends…have a kick-ass weekend. Be safe.

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.

Pelican Point Horse Play

Last week taken near Pelican Point. Liked this image lots.

Went south for a couple days with Ruppert for a great time on the Yellowstone and the Stillwater. Awesome. Recommend these freestone gems to anyone in the SW Montana Neighborhood. More on the short hiatus fishing trip tomorrow. Back to the Silly Sunday Scenery Shots…

Milling around near Craig on a lovely Montana evening...

The lesser of our two deer. Mule and Whitetail. Whitetails hang out in bottoms, and mule deer in the middle of the road near dusk.

Autrumn storms in late summer

Prarie Sunflower | Helianthus petiolaris | Aster Family

These common sunflowers line the roadways in Montana. Not uncommon to see entire fields of them wild while driving to your next great fishing destination. If you are smart, it should be here…on the world’s greatest dry fly fishery.

Boy, the fish are getting a little easier. Or some of them are. You will still bump into bomb proof sippers…that ignore the for hours at a time. Accept defeat and move forward. Or crack a fresh bbeer and continue the madness. Your choice.

Painted Turtle | Chrysemys picta | Pond and Box Turtle Family

See these fellers around the river, not as often as we would like. I know that they are good luck in saltwater circles, and probably in the trout circles as well.

Best of luck and Happy Sunday!

I'll take it...

An ant eater. Bloom’s ant is kick-ass. So are any ant of your liking. Tied off behind a big fluffy see-um fly, like a hopper, and drifted down the golden road into a waiting brownie gullet. Strike.

What I love out terrestrial eats on this fine river is the non-crashiness trashiness freestone bite of the take. The fly may just disappear…like the floor just dropped out. Not the toilet flush sort of deal…much more refined.

Yes, sometimes the fish do explode on the fly…and that is fun too. But, most of our fish like the fly with a touch of Grey Poupon…”pardon me, but do you happen to have a jar of…”

The hopper bite is not shit hot yet. And as you all know, our river is not known for tremendous hopper days, with dudes coming in daily with hero hopper stories. But, they do eat it.

When ours, the bite,  is hot we will let you know, or not. We may tell you folks when it is ending, or something. The best way to know is to be here. Just take a short 2 week hiatus from that crappy ball and chain career of yours and join us for the time being. I’ll write you a note to give your boss…and if you are your own boss, shlep the rest of the week and next too to your subordinate and get here. We’ll save a bar stool at Joe’s for you.

Near sunset @ Pelican Isle 8/5 | photo Raisler

Good morning to you all, TGIF, get out of the house this weekend. Pack the Yeti full of ice, Budweiser, wienies…that’s all you need. And drive to a local watering hole, or fishing hole…put up lawn chair and begin.