Perfect Day

Headhunters 8:00am | 43 degrees | dead calm | overcast | fish rising

A perfect winter fishing day, and it’s a Saturday.  What’s your excuse?  The Dearborn flat was covered with rising fish on my way to work this morning.  It’s gonna be a good day.  Dries and streamers will definitely be in the mix today.  Make sure you have some Griffiths Gnats and/or Buzzballs.  Zebra midges are a must for dropping off the back of dry flies.  Streamers should include Sparkle Minnow’s, Clous-a-bou’s, olive buggers and the Skiddish Smolt.

Nymphs that you should be packin’ include Pink Lightning Bugs, Rainbow Czech, the WORM, Zebra’s and Firebead Ray’s.  We always recommend fishing deep and slow, but you’ll find some fish at the head of riffles today.  Keep you eyes peeled and you should see some snouts.  Fishing a lightweight nymph rig just subsurface will get results in this kind of water.

Quite a few anglers will be out on the water for this time of year.  Don’t let that discourage you, though.  It’s great to Montanan’s out enjoying Montana.  That’s why we live here.

Greenheads are everywhere right now.