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Missouri River April May Fly Fishing Forecast

Missouri River Late April May Fly Fishing Forecast

April 23, 2023
Mark Raisler
Birds, Bugs, Fishing Report, Fly Fishing Technique, Nature
April, birds, Bugs, Forecast, May, Populations, Trout, Water LEvels, Weather
Missouri River Late April May Fly Fishing Forecast Snow on the ground. Green grasses below the white cover. Next week better air temps. And maybe less snow on the ground here locally. This water update article along with fishing predictions…
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Missouri River March Fishing Forecast

Missouri River March Fishing Forecast

March 8, 2023
Mark Raisler
Birds, Bugs, Fishing Report
Bugs, Flows, Hatches, MArch, Missouri River March Fishing Forecast, Weather
2 Comments
Missouri River March Fishing Forecast Things to think about in March Day 8 3rd month here on the Missouri River. The Missouri River March Fishing Forecast looks strong. Below average water levels and warming water temps are what we will…
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Squeeky's Trico Box

Squeeky’s Trico Box

July 25, 2022
Mark Raisler
Bugs
Bugs, flies, patterns, Squeeky's Trico Box, trico
7 Comments
Squeeky’s Trico Box Top row left moving right… Sinky type Trico’s. Glass beads, silver beads, o beads. Sunken Trico Spinners. More sinky flies and an Adams. A couple King’s River Caddis and a spinner or two. Harrop’s Hi-Viz Spinners and…
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Silly Sunday Scenery Tricos Image

Silly Sunday Scenery Tricos Image

July 10, 2022
Mark Raisler
Bugs, Headhunters Life
Bugs, Silly Sunday Scenery Tricos Image, Trico's
1 Comment
Silly Sunday Scenery Tricos Image. It’s gonna be hot this week. Temps reaching the Hi 90’s. Nearly the century mark. Trico’s today from the only daily blog here on Montana’s Missouri River. The Headhunters Fly Shop Blog. Enjoy the week…
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Missouri River September Fishing Forecast 2020

August 31, 2020
Mark Raisler
Fishing Report
Autumn, Bugs, dry fly, Fall, Headhunters Fly Shop, Missouri River September Fishing Forecast 2019, nymph, Terrestrial, Water Flows, Water LEvels, Water Temps
3 Comments
Rolling into September 2020 and Covid Free in Craig Montana. All good here as we welcome Autumn with cooler daytime highs, today only forecast to reach the 60F mark. The nighttime lows are not dipping below the 40F point yet,…
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Joe Walsh Rocky Mountain Way

Joe Walsh Rocky Mountain Way

May 18, 2020
Mark Raisler
Bugs, Fishing Report
Bugs, Caddis, fishing report, Joe Walsh Rocky Mountain Way, May, Monday
2 Comments
Joe Walsh Rocky Mountain Way Another installment of great Rocky Mountain music today on the Headhunters Blog. Today rocker Joe Walsh and Barnstorm with Rocky Mountain Way. John mentioned this tune yesterday as a lock for the blog this week.…
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Thursday Missouri River Upcoming Events

Thursday Upcoming Missouri River Events Update

August 8, 2019
Mark Raisler
Fishing Report, Headhunters Life
Bugs, crowds, events, Summer, Thursday Upcoming Missouri River Events Update
Thursday Upcoming Missouri River Events Update August Fishing Bugs: Trico’s, ants, hoppers, Callibaetis, Caddis, Spruce Moths, beetles. Trico’s steal the show on this one, at least for Headhunters. The afternoons can be filled with good attractor fishing, but not everyday.…
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Spider Eats Drake Head!

Spider Eats Drake Head!

June 30, 2018
Mark Raisler
Bugs
Bugs, Drake, Nature, Spider, Spider Eats Drake Head!
Spider Eats Drake Head! Found this on a window today. Scary. Trout generally eat Drakes. If the water drops we will see them soon. Happy Saturday. Book your July trip today. How about late July? August? Why not book it…
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Missouri River Summer Foreshadowing

Missouri River Summer Foreshadowing

January 24, 2018
Mark Raisler
Bugs, Fishing Report
Ants, Beetles, Brown Drake, Bugs, Caddis, Guide Trip, Hatches, Hopper, lodging, PMD's, Streamer, Summer, Terrestrials, trico
4 Comments
Summer Foreshadowing Just the 24th of January today. We have more than our toe dipped into the proverbial year, more like our ankle has entered the water. We are just beginning. And having that ankle submerged made me think of…
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One Month ’til Midges?

January 18, 2018
Mark Raisler
Fishing Report
Bugs, dry fly, February, Forecast, Midges, One Month 'til Midges?
1 Comment
One Month ’til Midges? Spending the week in Western Washington as the hard rain has got me thinking…One Month ’til Midges? I did not start out with this exact thought. It started with the hard rain, and being thankful that it…
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2016 UMOWA Macroinvertebrate Report

June 15, 2017
Braden Lewis
Bugs, Conservation
Bugs, conservation, fly fishing technique, missouri river, Nymphs, UMOWA
3 Comments
2016 UMOWA Macroinvertebrate Report On March 17, the Upper Missouri Watershed Alliance (UMOWA) published the results of the 2016 bug study performed by David Stagliano of Montana Biological Survey. We are late in sharing the results, but with the UMOWA Annual…
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Missouri River Bugs – May 2017

May 16, 2017
Braden Lewis
Bugs
Bugs, flies, fly fishing technique, Nymphs
3 Comments
This week, we collected bugs on the lower river between Pelican Point and Cascade. Today we are going to talk about what Missouri River bugs we found and how to best imitate them during periods of higher flow. The Usual…
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Monday April 10th Missouri River Stats

April 10, 2017
Mark Raisler
Uncategorized
April, Bugs, Flows, Stats, Water Temps, Weather
4 Comments
Monday April 10th Missouri River Stats Bugs are coming. Saw a pretty good BWO hatch yesterday on the lwer river. They will show more this week. It is near! Water Flows are in the 5K range. We should see this…
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Missouri River Bugs – April

April 3, 2017
Braden Lewis
Birds Bugs and Wildlife, Bugs, Fly Fishing Technique, Fly Tying, Nature
April, Bugs, flies, fly fishing technique, Nymphs
9 Comments
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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Friday Foreshadowing Foto

Friday Foreshadowing Foto

January 20, 2017
Mark Raisler
Bugs
Bugs, Summer, Trico's
4 Comments
Friday Foreshadowing Foto All I can think about this week is summer. And summer bugs. And short pants. And spinner falls. And when this damn snow will go away…   And to think we are already a whole month  total…
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Blackfoot River Salmon Flies & Fishing Report

June 8, 2016
Mark Raisler
Bugs
Blackfoot River, Blackfoot River Fishing Report, Blackfoot River Salmon Flies, Bugs, Salmon Flies
2 Comments
Blackfoot River Salmon Flies & Fishing Report Hey all good across the divide. The Salmon Flies are out in force and the trout don’t want them. So what to do? Well I’m not really sure other than keep fishing and…
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Missouri River Bugs – June

June 7, 2016
Braden Lewis
Birds Bugs and Wildlife, Bugs, Fly Fishing Technique, Nature, Photography, Uncategorized
Bugs, flies, fly fishing technique, June, Nymphs, phtography
6 Comments
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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Plenty of BWO's around the Missouri River

Plenty of BWO’s around the Missouri River

April 18, 2016
Mark Raisler
Bugs
Bugs, BWO's, Insects, Mega-Hatch, missouri river, Spring
Plenty of BWO’s around the Missouri River The sun will squash the great dry fly fishing for the most part this week. But, if you sneak around you will find some fish to cast at. Plenty of BWO’s around the…
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February Fly Fishing Forecast 2016

Missouri River February Fly Fishing Forecast 2016

February 9, 2016
Mark Raisler
Birds Bugs and Wildlife, Fishing Report
Bugs, February Fly Fishing Forecast 2016, Hatches, Nymphs, Streamers, Weather, winter
3 Comments
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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Fall Bug Sampling

October 19, 2015
Braden Lewis
Bugs
Bugs, missouri river, Nymphing, UMOWA
4 Comments
Over the last couple weeks, I’ve had the privilege of aiding David Stagliano with the fall invertebrate sampling of the Missouri River. The Upper Missouri River Watershed Alliance (UMOWA) initiated this sampling in order to establish a baseline data set that…
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Leaves falling down, Trout rising up!

Leaves falling down, Trout rising up!

October 3, 2015
Mark Raisler
Bugs, Nature
Bugs, Fall, Leaves falling down, Trout rising up!
Hard rain and sleet this morning. Hard rain and sleet this afternoon. Tomorrow the same. Winter Weather advisory in effect. Fishing this morning? Good. Not as much wind as the forecast called for. Fishing this afternoon?  Great. A mega hatch…
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First just a few…then a few more.

June 3, 2015
Mark Raisler
Bugs, Fishing Report, Headhunters Life
Bugs, Caddis, June, PMD's
First just a few…then a few more. Saw a few of those June Mayflies today. The lower is heating up with that ill flighted Trichoptera Gang. The water temps are up and down. Well within the temperature range of our annual…
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