The minutiae of fly fishing
The minutiae of fly fishing The last thing I thought of while sorting tiny sz. 22 beats duns was the minutiae of fly fishing. Trying to fool a silly trout with a size 22 beats dun on the end of…
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Tying one on
Tying one on Snow all weekend long. Snowed pretty hard last night. Why not, after our snowiest February in history we ay as well continue the theme for another month. Shane this last week tying on another trout spey fly.…
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Friday Foto March 2nd Edition
Friday Foto March 2nd Edition Great fishing this last week. Good bite on all three disciplines. Midges coming off daily. The fish like the swing w/ olive flavored flies tied from the end. Nymphers are rejoicing. Thankfully March has arrived.…
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Squeeky’s Fly Sort Update, including rants
Squeeky’s Fly Sort Update Maybe half way through of my annual fly sorting, configuring, culling process. Certainly making headway. I’m finished with the PMD box most recently. Trico’s done. Worms and such box. Done. Tiny mayfly nimps, done. Scuds and…
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Classic Headhunters Hoody’s
Classic Headhunters Hoody’s Sara has brought in some kick ass Headhunters originals already this spring. The HH Dead Drifter is back on a hoody. This one is a favorite of our staff and you the American Headhunter. Womens HH logo…
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Since my brain is fried, I may as well organize flies.
Since my brain is fried, I may as well organize flies. Here I go. Winter is not over. It feels like it is just beginning. And flies do not sort themselves. As a fishing guide I have lots of flies.…
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Summertime on the Mo
Summertime on the Mo Early mornings always sound like a great idea late night at the bar. The best way to shake that fog is to get on the water early. Some of my worst mornings have been immediately cured…
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UMOWA plans Streambank Restoration @ Prickly Pear
UMOWA plans Streambank Restoration @ Prickly Pear Ed Note: This just in from UMOWA. Their first stream bank project on the Missouri River. Progress from our local watershed group. Congrats. Look forward to seeing more projects like these here on…
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Friday Foto
Friday Foto Shotgun Annie’s of Wolf Creek. The winter eatery in the canyon. Stop in and say hello, order a round, and enjoy a burger. Summertime too. Snow here this weekend. Nice today, mid 30’s. Winter returns Saturday. Enjoy your…
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Mid February Missouri River Fishing Report
Mid February Missouri River Fishing Report The short and cold version of the Fishing Mid February Missouri River Fishing Report. It’s cold out there. And in the water. 34F water temp. Somedays the air temp crawls over the water temp. Some…
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Caddis Fest ’18 Poster Art Contest
Caddis Fest ’18 Poster Art Contest Get those paintbrushes out and create some art of the annual Caddis Fest ’18 Poster Art Contest. Taking art submissions until April 1st. Send to mark@headhuntersflyshop.com and/or lynn@lynnkenyon.com. Got a few in the bag already…
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Craig Montana Winter
Craig Montana Winter Best snow February in some time. It’s stark. Craig Montana Winter. Nothin’ happening right now. Phones ringing at the store. Booking ’18 Spring Special Trips, a bunch of summer, and a few fall… It’s stark out there.
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Montana’s Winter Storm and Water Predictions
Montana’s Winter Storm Dumping right now as I write this Winter Storm Blog Thursday morning in Cascade Montana. Weather Underground says…snow expected, possibly heavy at times. Total snow accumulations of 2-5 inches are expected, with 8-16 inches expected in the…
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Saturday Snow. Haiku too.
Saturday Snow. Haiku too. The cold enveloped me as I walked out of the shop while the snow battered my face taking this image Saturday about noonish. This haiku was blown, and stalled cracklin’, on my rear leg. Another 9…
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March SPEY CASTING Madness @ Headhunters Fly Shop
March SPEY CASTING Madness We are launching our March SPEY CASTING Madness schedule today on the Headhunters Fly Shop and Guide Service Blog. March 23rd, 24th, and 25th with 3 spey clinics raising the bar on your Spey Game! It…
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Friday Fog Foto Craig Bar
Friday Fog Foto Craig Bar Lite snow this weekend. Cloudy too. Might be a nice weekend to step out to the Mo. If you live anywhere else around the American neighborhood fishing may not be on your schedule. If it…
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IF4 Film Fest in GF
IF4 Film Fest in GF Friday nite in Great Falls 730pm. The Do Bar. Go check it. They serve beer and cocktails there. So pretty fun. With fishing videos too. Enjoy! A trailer for met ’18 show. Focus.
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Classic 3 Door Suburban
Classic 3 Door Suburban Would love to have one of these classic 3 door ’68-’72 Chevy Suburbans. There is one in Great Falls. It used to be parked at the Dearborn boat ramp as the folks that had it at…
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Friday Foto Mountain Palace Winter
Friday Foto Mountain Palace Winter Real cold today. Lots of snow falling. Quite a bit overnight. Looks OK for the weekend. Much warmer temps. Maybe fishable. If you deem it fishable, stop in the shop. We have hot coffee. Unless…
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How to interpret water data or Realism: A sport most anglers want nothing of.
How to interpret water data or Realism: A sport most anglers want nothing of. The case in point today revolves around a couple charts that we see most often used by bloggers like HH and beyond. Below is an article…
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Silly Sunday Melting Snow Scenery
Silly Sunday Melting Snow Scenery You have 3 more days, including today to get out tree and enjoy the river before we slip back into a winter pattern. Sunday, Monday, Tuesday. Then January brings winter in with snow an scooper…
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Friday Foto
Friday Foto Warming here in Craig. Shelf ice around, but navigable. Check the boat ramps before doing anything too stupid. Come by the shop get a shuttle, fill the voids in your fly box, check out our Just Add Vise…
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Happy New Year 2018!
Happy New Year 2018! Happy New Year to all of the Missouri River lovers out there! Happy New Year. Is this the year that you spend some time on the Mighty Mo, living out your dry fly dreams? Bring it…
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It’s cold. Think warm thoughts.
It’s cold. Think warm thoughts. I think it got to 10F. No wind though. Clear and bright. No wind though. We are in the treading water stage of the winter. It’s stale. Watched Hitchcock’s Rear Window last night. Wow! Great flick.…
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Merry Christmas from Headhunters of Craig Montana
Merry Christmas from Headhunters of Craig Montana Merry Christmas from Headhunters to all of you. We appreciate you all year long and we are all thankful for you and your families. Enjoy this time with your friends and families. Be…
Read MoreOne of the great John Cusack Quotes
One of the great John Cusack Quotes What do you want to do? Are you doing it? Did you have a crossroads decision at one point? We all did. This is a fantastic scene with John Cusack in Say Anything…
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Coming home is so very sweet!
Coming home is so very sweet! Out of town for a spell and returned home yesterday. Spent the time away in sunny Hawaii. Pretty nice and quite entertaining. Fished with my bro’ Marty Thomas, my wife Danielle, and Mike Hennessey.…
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Hardy Rapids
Nothing much to say today. Fishing continues to be the same (good) so here is an image from this morning.
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Winter Down Low
The above image is not normal. It was taken yesterday morning looking upstream from Pelican Point. There should be ice jams and snow on the ground. When it’s real cold the river might be frozen over. Even on a warm…
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Montana Upland Season
Big Game hunting is finished but Upland-bird season is still going strong for many Montana sportsman, and the mild weather we’ve been having has created some great conditions for wing-shooters. Our upland hunting expert Sara Roholt can be hard to…
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Quiet Time
Were heading into a few weeks that are typically quiet, but offer some great fishing. Thats OK. The Mo’ can use a break. We will still do 2 or 3 shuttles a day – more on weekends – and there…
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Now, the rest of the month.
Now, the rest of the month. Headhunters Fly Shop Christmas Party last night. A great time had by all. We ate well too. A taco bar with 20+ side items to make your taco great. Carnita’s and Beef Barbacoa. Yum.…
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It was just a question.
It was just a question. So I walk up to this guy and say “Hey, I hear 7wt. is around.” And I got this look.
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Silly Saturday Scenery
Silly Saturday Scenery Matt Patterson fishing Thursday on the Mo. Matt was one of our first customers. Then he got married to Brittney, had a couple kids, and disappeared for years. Now he is back working on the local improvement…
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Fly Shop Small Saturday!
Fly Shop Small Saturday! Come on out and Fly Shop Small Saturday. Why not Sunday and the rest of the holiday season too? It just makes sense! Headhunters Fly Shop is having a big sale this weekend with Abel Super…
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Black Fly Day Sale @ Headhunters of Craig
Black Fly Day Sale @ Headhunters of Craig It’s coming soon. Starting Friday at Headhunters Fly Shop of Craig Montana. A big sale that includes deep discounts on some very popular items! SIMMS G3 Waders on sale at 50% off! …
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Thanksgiving Holiday Week in Montana
Thanksgiving Holiday Week in Montana Fishing all week long will be pretty terrific. Like John said a couple days ago the Swing Season is in full effect along with the catch rates pretty consistent. Calls all weekend long in regards…
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Friday Foto The last of Fall
Friday Foto The last of Fall The last of fall is upon us. Thanksgiving in a week. The leaves are long gone. Winter has shown us that it is just around the corner. Enjoy the last of fall this week…
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Friday Foto Back to Fall Weather
Friday Foto Back to Fall Weather High of 47F today. Not too windy. Very nice. Partly sunny, cloudy. A few anglers out there enjoying this fall back weekend. See you tomorrow, or this afternoon?
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Winter Rewards Fishing the Missouri River
Winter Rewards Fishing the Missouri River Trout Spey casters up all the way from Big Sky. Bill, Jason, Rob, and Todd ventured up the state to the Mighty Mo to swing a few flies. And they were rewarded with nice…
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Lake Cascade Silly Saturday Scenery
Lake Cascade Silly Saturday Scenery Nearly the sunset on the fall season. At least for fly fishing guests. The rest of the gang here, locals, will fish on for some time. Not a bad streamer bite yesterday. No bugs for…
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Sunday Wind Day
Sunday Wind Day Windy today. Already gusts to 75mph. So, damn windy. You could watch football. Or you could just go. We are going. Advanced Fly Fishing School final day. We are going. First day of RIO/Sage industry trip. They’re…
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Gig Harbor Fly Shop Hosted Travel
Gig Harbor Fly Shop Hosted Travel Just had the Gig Harbor Fly Shop in town for better than a week. Two hosted trips from the Gig Harbor Fly Shop and Blake Merwin. Fun times! Lots of learning going on during…
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Swing Season 2017-18 is Here!
We’ve been swinging with our two-handers for a few weeks now, and we know a few of you have as well. In our brains, the 1st of November is the beginning of “Swing Season”, but as the weeds disappear from…
Read MorePlayoff Fishing here on the Missouri River
Playoff Fishing here on the Missouri River It is go time here. Playoff fishing here on the Missouri River. Excitement daily as we are headlong into the fall fishing period. And it is good! I sighted many real life BWO…
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Silly Saturday Scenery Trout Spey Days
Silly Saturday Scenery Trout Spey Days Getting it done on the Mo with a Trout Spey rod. It is time. Come on by and get on at Headhunters. Demo’s lines, tips, info, guide trips, casting instruction. All you need in…
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Friday Foto FF School Edition
Friday Foto FF School Edition All is well here as we move into the fall period on the Mighty Mo. We are entrenched in the Wolf Creek Lodge with our annual Advanced Fly Fishing School that kicked off last night.…
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Snow Day on the Mo Day
Snow Day on the Mo Day It came. It is awesome. Fish love Snow. And some people do too! Headhunters is your only SIMMS dealer on the Missouri River. We have all of the fall and winter gear for your…
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Winter Weather this weekend!
Winter Weather this weekend! Looking forward to it. Really liked the wet week we just had 7 days ago. 2″-4″ Friday. Bring it. The dry fly fishing pretty good. Pseudo rising trout are on the bite. The nymphing is sick.…
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Strange Items in Squeeky’s Boat
Strange Items in Squeeky’s Boat It should be titled The Not So Strange Items in Squeeky’s Boat. All the items listed below are times that you would find in my boat all 12 months of the year. I self admittedly…
Read MoreNever Forget
Never Forget While we remember the brave souls of 9/11 we also keep in mind our local wild fire fighters here not only in Montana but all over the west. We are pulling for you out there. A fundraiser for…
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710 Ashbury @ Izaak’s Fundraiser for Wildfire Fighters Saturday September 9th
710 Ashbury @ Izaak’s Fundraiser for Wildfire Fighters Saturday September 9th 710 Ashbury playing on Izaak’s Log Jam Saturday September 9th. A Dead cover band. What is not to like. A Fundraiser for WildFire Firefighters too! Come on down and…
Read MoreRain. The Cult. Video
Rain. The Cult. Video A couple months without rain. We are ready. We need it! Enjoy the Cult on the Headhunters Blog today. Rain. Here comes the rain… This is foreshadowing, clairvoyance, telepathic. This video will bring rain. Big party…
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Labor Day Scenic Craig Bridge View
Labor Day Scenic Craig Bridge View Smoke on the horizon coming in fast Sunday afternoon. Monday, Labor Day, and the weekend is nearly over but, the Half Price Fly Sale is still on! Today is the last day. September is…
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Sara says SALE!
Sara says SALE! Day 2 upon us. Same fly pricing Sunday and Monday. Half Off flies! Call us up if you want our experts to load you up a few fly pucks full of your favorites. We will pop them…
Read MoreHalf Off Fly Sale @ Headhunters All Weekend!
Half Off Fly Sale @ Headhunters All Weekend! 50% OFF ALL FLIES ALL WEEKEND! 50% off all fly boxes. Demo Rod Sale. Sage, Orvis, Fenwick, ECHO, Loomis and more! Check out our selection of dry fly rods, nymphing sticks, and…
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