Thursday Swan
A swan this Thursday. A lovely bird. Snowed last night for a couple hours. Just a skiff on the ground, lawn, river banks. High sun this afternoon. Looking for more clouds. Weekend ahead. Looking forward to it!
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Silly Saturday Scenery, Wooden Boat, Dog, Fishing, Fall Colors
Silly Sunday Scenery Wooden Boat, Dog, Fishing, Fall Colors Really great scenery this time of year. Good fishing too. A really quite good tiny baetis bite in the morning (nymphers) and the afternoons with overcast skies keeps those bugs glued…
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Silly Saturday Scenery October Edition
Silly Saturday Scenery October Edition Fishing is fantastic. The wind has been missing from most of your thoughts. That sure is nice. Some Octobers blow hard. Not this one. Enjoy hunting today as well. Happy Saturday.
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Birds, Bugs and Wildlife
Headhunters Fly Shop open all week long. Thanksgiving Day we will be open 8-12, our traditional hours on this holiday. Cool light, cool bugs, cool bucks, and cool birds on the Missouri this week. Mink, Muskrat, and River Otters abound…
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Missouri River Montana Fishing Report 5.13.21
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Painted Turtle on the Mo
Painted Turtle on the Mo Saw this feller on the river today Thursday. He had a few friends around him as well. Love seeing the wildlife on the bank of the Mighty Mo. You gotta look away from your fly…
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Thursday Missouri River Foto Bird on a Wire
Thursday Missouri River Foto Bird on a Wire The river is falling. This bird is waiting for the goods. We are too. Starting to see some fish up again. A good spinner fall as well. We have waited patiently and…
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Rough Legged Hawk
Rough Legged Hawk The Rough-legged Hawk spends the summer capturing lemmings on the arctic tundra, tending a cliffside nest under a sun that never sets. Winter is the time to see this large, open-country hawk in southern Canada and the…
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Missouri River Bugs – April
Last week we collected our first sample of bugs from the Missouri River below the Untouchable’s Bridge. The bugs that we collected were about what you would expect for April. Sows and scuds composed the majority of the biomass, but midges and…
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State of the Missouri River Craig Montana 8.26.16
State of the Missouri River Craig Montana 8.26.16 Bringing you the State of the Missouri River Craig Montana 8.26.16. Headhunters is the information source on the banks of the famed Missouri River. Keep it tuned here for your daily bite of…
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Missouri River Bugs – June
Missouri River Bugs The following are some pictures of bugs from the Missouri River that were collected in June a couple miles upstream of Craig. These images will hopefully aid in your fly design and/or fly selection while you are fishing this…
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Freezout Lake Snow Goose Migration
The Freezout Lake Snow Goose migration occurs each spring, and is a very popular event for nature lovers in the Great Falls area. Julie and I have logged many days at Freezout – but in the fall and with guns.…
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Welcome to the Montana Spring
Welcome to the Montana Spring I think it has arrived. The calendar says yes. Mother Nature says yes. I saw the first sign of spring this previous Tuesday. At least the first spring marker for me. The first Bluebird. I…
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Missouri River February Fly Fishing Forecast 2016
February Fly Fishing Forecast 2016 We can start be saying the winter weather has left us for the next 10 days. Monday the daytime high achieved 58F. Look ahead. More to come. Today we bring you the February Fly Fishing…
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Macroinvertebrates On the Back of an Envelope
If you like aquatic macroinvertebrates (river bugs), here are some “back of the envelope” calculations that may amuse you. The UMOWA 2015 Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Report reported that the greatest density of macroinvertebrates occurred between the Dam and Craig. The density…
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Macroinvertebrate Report from UMOWA
On December 22, the Upper Missouri River Watershed Alliance (UMOWA) released the Baseline Macroinvertebrate Monitoring Report 2015 for the Upper Missouri River, MT, prepared by David Stagliano. The purpose of this study was to provide baseline macroinvertebrate (bug) monitoring data in order to assess…
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A Day on the Missouri River told through Images
Dawn til dusk. A day on the river. Last day of September. Tomorrow it will be October. We love it.Click on first image for slider view.
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Memorial Day – Public Lands
During the upcoming Holiday Weekend, many Montanan’s will be out in the RV or tent enjoying our public lands. While we are not blessed with a great deal of public land in our immediate area, an hour drive can put…
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Bugs out today. Fish eating them too…
March Browns are out and the fish are eating them. The river is off color near the feeder creeks. Will you stay away or head into the fray? Baetis are everywhere too. The water temps dipped during the weekend storm.…
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Missouri River Baetis Image
Check it. Baetis are here. Big time. Call ahead if you need a Doctor’s Note from us. We can totally forge one of those. Then you can fish guilt free this week. That Baetis Flu is going around and you…
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Silly Saturday Scenery Midge Edition
The midge flies are here. Some BWO emergences that are pretty stellar too. As Dangerous Dan Gard used to say… Cosmic. It really can be Cosmic. Will the weekend produce that kind of fishing? Maybe. As Larry or Capt. Scott…
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Peter speaks about Public Land and Wide Open Spaces
Peter today with this post about Public Land Issues and how he feels about them. Thanks Peter for you post and opinion. I believe that the wide-open spaces that inspired our ancestors to test themselves against this beautiful but unforgiving…
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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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