No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.
The Noise – Elixir
No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.
Aurora Nights – Elixir
No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful. Nor again is there anyone who loves or pursues or desires to obtain pain of itself. No one rejects, dislikes, or avoids pleasure itself, because it is pleasure, but because those who do not know how to pursue pleasure rationally encounter consequences that are extremely painful.
Friday Foto
Friday Foto here on the Headhunters Blog. Wednesday morning 12F. Really damn pretty on the Missouri River in central Montana. Weather nice this weekend. See you on the river or for apres fish at Joe’s. Enjoy the continued spring foreshadowing.
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Friday Foto
Big nice weekend ahead. Spey Clinic tomorrow. Lodging available for the weekend. Guides out on the water. Demo Adipose Boats out too. Shuttles daily. Some rain ahead, maybe. Enjoy the lower river image today.
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Friday Fly Fishing Foto
Friday Foto today with a bent Switch Rod. This is one way to bend it. The other? FISH. TGIF. Go HAWKS!
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Friday Spey Foto
A nice shot on Friday. Friday Foto. Looking good this weekend of rSpey Casting the Missouri. We are The Missouri River Spey Shop. Demo’s galore, lines too. Stop in and see us for any of your single or two handed…
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Silly Sunday Scenery
A nice shot of Mountain Palace. I haven’t posted one this last week have I? A pic of MP, my favorite formation on the Mo, near here, in central Montana. Mountain Palace brought to you today by Headhunters Fly Shop…
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Happy New Year Headhunters! Updated Polar Plunge Photo
Take the day off. You deserve it. We are in the shop nursing our hangovers too. Give us a call. The coffee is flowing to mask last nights… Updated: Craig Polar Plunge Photo! 2015 Craig Montana Polar Plunge High…
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Silly Sunday Scenery
Snow on the ground. More snow last night. More snow today. Then it gets cold. Subzero man. Happy Holidays. There are a bundle of folks wandering around. Meaning more than 10, less than 20. Stop in the only fly shop…
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Latest Catch
The most recent issue of Catch Magazine is out now. As usual, great imagery from Brian and Todd. Tarpon, trout and a bad dam in Chile. If you haven’t paid for the 1 year subscription, do it. Catch ain’t the…
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Friday Foto
From Scumliner today. Mark is on vacation. Here’s more spey stuff (that’s all I’ve been doing for months). The so classic Rod & Coat Rack at the “Upfront” on the Grande Ronde at Heller Bar. The Upfront is the beach…
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Silly Sunday Spey Scenery
Casting clinic yesterday at Headhunters Fly Shop and Guide Service. Lots of folks casting, a ton of fellowship, and some fish were caught too. Guide trips out today while the weather is cooperating. A few boats on the water using…
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Friday Foto
Headhunters Fly Shop brigs you the weekly Friday Foto installment. Beth qualifies for New Breed Chicks Rule as well. Beth is a guide here on the Mo who is gaining a strong following. Not all that fishy around here this…
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Sunday Spey
Ninch stretching it out on the upper river. He didn’t get one on this cast. It was the next. The entire Headhunters crew has been out swinging with two-hands. A lot. Try some swinging. You’ll like it. You can wear…
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Friday Foto
November fly fishing on the Mighty Mo in the shadows of Eagle Rock. Pretty good stuff and a pretty good time. Bait anglers, swingers, and a few nymphers out on the river today. We had a few folks in and…
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Friday Foto
Friday Foto this first full week of November shows us the last gasp of fall color. While we still have a bit around the wind of the last month has taken its tool on the leaves here in the Missouri…
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Thursday Great Blue Heron
We see the Great Blue Heron on Montana’s Missouri River corridor nearly daily. They do not go too long without a meal on this 4 season river. I’ve seen them get many fish. Juvenilles, teens, and a few adults. Once,…
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Friday Foto
Friday Friday from your friends at Headhunters Fly Shop and Guide Service. This is not a shot from today, or yesterday. I thought if I put up a shot of what fall generally looks like Mother Nature might find it…
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Silly Sunday Scenery | Just Duck Edition
A few years back we got flack for posting a banner image during construction of the bridge that followed this bridge. But since this bridge is gone, history, in the archives…I wonder if we will get beef from folks who…
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Tuesday in October | Red Shafted Flicker
Northern Flicker | Red Shafted Flicker Flickers are fairly large woodpeckers with a slim, rounded head, slightly downcurved bill, and long, flared tail that tapers to a point. Flickers appear brownish overall with a white rump patch that’s conspicuous in…
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Silly Sunday Scenery
Looking for the rise form. Eric Mondragon and angler Dave out for a day of fly fishing on Montana’s Missouri River. The fall is a good time to get out. Are you going to get out another time before we…
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Silly Sunday Scenery
Love the fall colors. Could post an image every day from here on out. Maybe I will. Go Hawks.
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Friday Foto
It is damn pretty here on the Mo’. Eagles, Brown Trout, and you? The fall colors are happening and the we just love the shorter days, cooler nights, and clean smelling air. The weeds are fading, the bugs are hatching,…
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Silly Sunday Scenery
Silly Sunday Scenery and Imagery from Headhunters Fly Shop and Guide Service in Craig Montana. Good times here in the late summer of 2014. Call today for the best in guides this fall. Still lots of good fishing to be…
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Friday Foto
Friday Foto Eagle Edtion today this Friday the 12th of September. Snow the last couple days. Sun today. Look at the weather and if you are of the fair weather type of angler you may want to come out sooner…
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Silly Sunday Scenery Blackfoot River Edition
A magical shot of the Blackfoot River this last week. The fall is here. The baetis? Not yet. But some of the components of the fall are showing. The colors are just around the bend. Silly Sunday Scenery Blackfoot River…
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Friday Foto September Evenings
Getting on into the season and the days are shorter, the nights are longer, the mornings cooler, and the fishing pretty damn hot! Will you be coming to the Missouri River this year? We hope you are! The fishing is…
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Friday Foto | Glacier National Park
Some random gorgeous stream in the GNP. Lots of folks gracing the park this last week but it seems pale in comparison to the numbers they pack in Yellowstone Nat’l Park. Damn pretty. If you want to take a day…
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Silly Sunday Scenery
I think Brett sees a Unidentified Flying Object. Or he thinks he does. Or Just some Trico’s. Or just too many days guiding. Great mornings here on the Mighty Missouri . We dig August because of the the light pressure,…
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Hatch Magazine Missouri River Rowdies
Cool article and photo essay in the latex Hatch Magazine Online about your fly shop in Craig. Chad Schmukler puts this great mag together with photogs and writers from around America and beyond. High quality photos and content make this…
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Friday Foto
Your Friday Foto here on the fly fishing blog that contains daily content. Not every post contains meat, but some do. The fishing here on the Missouri River is still pretty fantastic. Good times in the morning hours and good…
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Silly Sunday Scenery
A few characters from Montana Mike Ward of Adipose Boats and LG of America. Fishing with some cat outta Australia. I guess he fishes a lot of salt and sets the hook pretty hard. Strip setting with 5X sometimes does…
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Friday Foto
Friday Foto Trout Belly Edition today on the Headhunters Fly Fishing Blog. Rising fish fill the river and this shot was captured yesterday in some sort of feeding frenzy. Looks good for the weekend ahead. Are you coming to enjoy…
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Thursday Foto | Wish you were here
Morning, afternoon, and evening fishing on the Missouri. It’s good. Wish you were here. Check out the last several posts on this very blog if you need to catch up, or get a primer for the near future. All the…
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4th of July Recovery
We have done it. The big 4th of July party here in Craig Montana is over. Over for another year. Lots of folks around for the only big 4th of July host in Craig Headhunters Fly Shop with our famous…
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Silly Sunday Scenery
We like Mayflies. The Missouri River has Mayflies. Lots of them. Happy Sunday. Great get together yesterday honoring Fly Fishing Legend Bob Lay. Today, the fishing goes on. All things flow down river. All of them.
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Friday Fishing Report and Foto
Dentist Joe releasing this fabulous Brown Trout this last week on a PMD Spinner. Awesome. The PMD Spinner has been one of the stars this last couple weeks with it’s cousins the Cripple and the Emerger. Really great PMD hatches…
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Silly Sunday Scenery
Today’s Weather: Mostly sunny, with a high near 80. Southwest wind 5 to 7 mph. Your Plan: Trout fishing on the Missouri River. Your Attitude: Calm, at ease. Enjoy the 3 day weekend. Sleep in tomorrow. Tuesday too. Blow off…
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Friday Foto Memorial Day Fishing Report 5.23.14
Hooray for the weather, for the holiday weekend, for the trout. All good things happening here in Craig Montana. Kicking off the weekend in the west! If you are not coming this weekend, we certainly hope we see you this…
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Sunday Scenery from Ben McNinch
Sunday Scenery brought to us today from our very own fly guru Ben McNinch. Ben caught this image mid eek down below his house. They boys caught some fish too! Fishing with Headhunters Guide Nick Stipech. We are just getting…
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Friday Foto | Sara Spey Edition
Friday Foto today on the Headhunters Fly Shop Blog. Montana’s best photo blog every Friday. Sara Roholt, a Headhunters All Star learns from Mike McCune of international Spey Casting Fame. Last weekend we hosted Mike and Whitney Gould here on…
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10 Rules for Taking Better Fish Pictures
The 10 Rules for Taking Fish Pictures today on the Headhunters LFy Shop Fly Fihsing Blog. We all love to have fish pictures from our trip. Why not take better fish pictures. Below is a list of ways to get…
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Silly Sunday Scenery
Rain day on the Missouri River. Raining as I rose this morning and may continue all day long. The tribes have jumped a bit in the last 24 hours and the Dearborn is tossing some mud our direction. Brown for…
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Friday Foto | Coming Home
Love this shot of the Wolf Creek Bridge. How do you feel when you drive down this grade to the Missouri River? I know that even today I still get jazzed when I get the first glimpse of the Missouri…
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Yes, they are here. The bugs that is.
A common question the last couple weeks. Have the bugs arrived? I think we can certify that they have arrived. Yes, they are here. Midges? Yes. BWO’s? Yes. You? We hope so. Check out the all new IDB. The…
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Friday Foto. Brown Town.
A ton of these guys in the river this year. Is this the year that we see a large number of Brown Trout in the system? Maybe. We have been seeing a number of larger Brown Trout this year already,…
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Soon. Missouri River Baetis
Baetis on the docket. Soon. Have seen some movement and have seen some fish respond. More on the way. Soon. Your objective? Be at the right place at the right time. Your task? Drift well. We know you have the…
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Silly Sunday Scenery
Midges. Lots of them around. More on the way. Happy Easter. Did the bunny visit you?
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Friday Foto and Fishing Report
Lee straight outta Seattle Washington with this Bamboo caught Brown Trout. Nice Lee. Headhunters Guide Nick Stipech put him on this behemoth yesterday. As Lee was battling this Missouri River Brown Trout he turned to the guest in the back…
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Silly Sunday Scenery
Silly Sunday Scenery today on the Headhunters Fly Fishing Blog. This sign at the top of Spring Creek exit I-15. Get off heading North 7 miles outside of Wolf Creek. IT parallels the Little Prickly Pear Creek. Damn pretty and…
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Friday Foto Missouri River Spring Edition
Yes. The Spring Edition. Thursday felt like spring. Sorta. This weekend promises to feel like spring. A lot. Today brings us some sun. Saturday some sun. Sunday some sun. Sunday the Orvis Guide Rendezvous in downtown Craig 4pm with a…
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Friday Foto
This shaggy cat lived on the banks of the Missouri River for a couple years. And caught a ton of trout. A throwback hunter and gatherer Patrick is back int eh work force, begrudgingly. Trout bums seems to be few…
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Friday Foto Fishing Report
The water is up since the last report, since the last weekend, since the last snow and wind and rain events. Tonight? The Fly Fishing Film Tour stops into Great Falls at the Hilton Garden Inn @ 7:30pm. But the…
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