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Friday Foto Swingin’ Good weekend for swinging flies. Shop open daily 8am. Weather? Variable. Standard. Got some wind, and warmer temps for the future. Snow by Tuesday and colder. What’er you gonna do? Watch football? Tie flies. Nap on the…

Friday Foto Osprey are Home

April 2, 2021

Birds, Headhunters Life

friday foto, Osprey

Friday Foto Osprey are Home Yes, the Osprey have returned home. The annual migration back to the summer roost has ended. Most return to the river March 30, 31, or April 1st. Like clockwork. It is one of the signs…

Friday Foto

March 26, 2021

Friday Foto Spring is here. For the most part. This coming week we see temps in the 40’s, 50’s 60’s with rain, wind, sunshine, and snow. Pretty standard for our Montana Spring Weather. Guide Trips out daily with our Spring…

New Breed Chicks Rule Redux Jana

March 19, 2021

2021, friday foto, Jana, NBCR, Spring

New Breed Chicks Rule Redux Jana Found this image roaming through the files last night. My cousin Jana Raisler with this nice rainbow from a couple years back. Jana lives in Sea/WA and shops at Avid Angler in Lake Forest…

Friday Foto

February 27, 2021

Big Slick, friday foto, Joe, Winter Run

Friday Foto Fishing Friday. Nymphing. Somewhat slow. The fish were not all that excited. But a few were. While winter fishing be sure to be diligent. And try hard. Shop open daily 8am. Guide trips out. More and more as…

Friday Foto

January 22, 2021

Friday Foto Rainbow Release. Fishing pretty well out there for 34.5F. Winter rules apply. Follow them for winter success. Shop open daily 8-5.

Friday Foto

January 8, 2021

Friday Foto Winter in Craig. A bit of snow yesterday. Calm. Snowing. Overcast. Swing trips out there swinging. TGIF

Friday Foto

December 18, 2020

Friday Foto Streamer man. You’d look good as streamer man. Try it. The Mo in your background gives you stupor strong streamer guy cred tho.

Friday Foto Swing Pic

December 11, 2020

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2HTROUT, friday foto, Swing, Trout Spey

Friday Foto Swing Pic We’re out there swinging daily. And fish like to eat the trout spey fly. Yep. TGIF. Carrie Special $2.50 Select options Echo Trout Spey $499.99 Select options Kreelex $3.00 Select options Li’l Kim Copper $4.00 Select…

Friday Foto

October 30, 2020

Friday Foto A rainbow face today on the Headhunters Blog. Halloween tomorrow. A good looking weekend ahead of us as we endure the high winds this Friday afternoon with gusts reaching beyond the 50mph mark. Now that is windy! Tomorrow…

Friday Foto

October 16, 2020

Friday Foto Not snowing yet. This from yesterday morning. Friday Foto. We are looking for our window scrapers right now…

Friday Foto

September 18, 2020

Friday Foto Autumn leads into fall. Change your flies, change your direction, change your life. Enjoy your day whatever direction it leads you…

Friday Foto

April 10, 2020

Future Fly Fishers

Friday Foto A few years back this scene with the Lasek Family. Colin and Kelley getting it done in June. Been fishing with Kelly for a number of years. Introduce your kids to fishing this year. Do it. A great…

Friday Foto It’s March!

March 6, 2020

friday foto, MArch

Friday Foto It’s March 71F today on the river. Calm for the morning session, windy for the afternoon. Tonight possible snow flurries. Again on Saturday nite too. Montana. Spring. Normal. SNAFU. The fishing is picking up. Along with the springlike…

Friday Goto Sara & a Pot of Dry Fly Gold

Friday Foto Sara & a Pot of Dry Fly Gold

January 24, 2020

New Breed Chicks

booking, friday foto, http://www.craigtroutcamp.com, Sara

Friday Foto Sara & a Pot of Dry Fly Gold We are still a couple months from daily dry fly activity on the Missouri River here in Craig Montana. But each day we get closer. Water levels for the summer…

Friday Foto Craig Bridge Scene

November 15, 2019

craig, Fall, friday foto, winter

Friday Foto Craig Bridge Scene Chillin’ on this Friday mid-month. Spey trips out this weekend. The swinging is good. Been walk wading and enjoying it. See you out there this afternoon. After accounting work. At home. With Bailey’s in the…

Friday Foto Baetis Blanket Hatch

November 1, 2019

Baetis, Blanket Hatch, friday foto

Friday Foto Baetis Blanket Hatch Happy Friday. Baetis are hatching. Clouds. We like clouds. Please leave the wind in Livingston. See you on the river.

Friday Foto Calm before the Storm

September 27, 2019

Friday Foto Calm before the Storm Cool, calm, overcast. That is the status today. Rained last night. Do we historically have snow this time of year? Oh yeah. Generally we have already had a spit or two of snow. Almost…

Friday Fall Foto

September 13, 2019

Fishing Report

Friday Fall Foto All good here on the Mo. Weedy? Yes. The upper end not as much. Towards Cascade not as much. It seems to get eaten up by the rapids at Half Breed? Always strange. Fishing decent, not as…

Friday Foto

June 7, 2019

Friday Foto Dry Fly Action Tye Habel with this nice larger rainbow on an X-Caddis. Yes, dry fly action has arrived. Riverwide? Daily? All day long? Blanket hatches? No. But enough to keep you busy for an afternoon. Here and…

Friday Foto

March 22, 2019

Friday Foto Spring is here. Friday Goto. Squeeky having problems with the BBQ charcoal. An early Headhunters Free BBQ. This one legendary of course because this is the moment that Adair realized that her fathers business partner is not too…

Friday Foto Weekend Missouri River Fishing Report 7.27.18

July 27, 2018

Fishing Report

Caddis, fishing report, friday foto, July, PMD, Summer, trico, Weekend

Friday Foto Weekend Missouri River Fishing Report 7.27.18 Flows dropping to 4800 cfs today as we Monto the last gasp of July. Wade fishers paradise. Daily events include the Trico spinner fall @ 845 am. Later in the morning you…

Dry Fly Eater Friday Foto

July 6, 2018

Birds, Headhunters Life

birds, friday foto

Dry Fly Eater Friday Foto The day is Friday. The blog post is Friday Foto. The topic is Birds. Squeeky’s favorite Friday topic. Don’t know what kind of bird it is. But I do know he was plucking bugs from…

Friday Foto Pelicans

June 22, 2018

Birds

friday foto, Pelicans

Friday Foto Pelicans A smelly bird. The Pelican. These are white. Happy Friday. See you in Craig this weekend. Check out our smelly Pelicans. We got lots.

Friday Foto

May 4, 2018

friday foto, Shane Wilson

Friday Foto Shane Wilson drifting down the river last week. Laughing, fishing, enjoying the day. The weather is fresh, springlike, and fantastic. Visit us when coming to the Mo We’d love to meet you. We have Craig’s only Wi-Fi, cellular…

Friday Foto Spring Eagle Image

April 27, 2018

Birds

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Friday Foto Spring Eagle Image On the upper Thursday. Not too many floating around from WC down. They must have been int he canyon, the plug of spring boats. A few waders snuggling to find water as well. IT’s gonna…

First Friday of Spring Foto

March 22, 2018

friday foto, Spring

First Friday of Spring Foto Fishing is quite good for late March. I think the scale tipped the other way not eh first day of spring. The fishing will get better everyday thru July 5th. Easier I mean. After July…

Friday Foto March 2nd Edition

March 2, 2018

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.…

Friday Foto

February 16, 2018

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…

Friday Foto Mountain Palace Winter

January 12, 2018

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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…

Friday Foto

January 5, 2018

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…

Friday Foto Back to Fall Weather

November 10, 2017

Fall Weather, friday foto, November

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?

Friday Foto FF School Edition

October 6, 2017

BWO, Fall, friday foto, Nymphers Unite, Streamer Love, You oughtta get out here

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.…

Friday Foto

July 28, 2017

friday foto, Rainbow Trout, Rising Trout, Sipper

Friday Foto Rising Rainbow Trout Hot and windy for the most part. Dry fly fishing great, if you are into that sort of thing. Hatches have been delayed in the mooring for some reason. A short window of rising trout…

Friday Missouri River Lower Canyon Foto

May 5, 2017

Friday Missouri River Lower Canyon Foto My buddy Shaun hooked up Thursday in the lower canyon. Pretty bright out yesterday with air temps getting into the 80’s for the first time this year. Today? Mid-80’s. Cinco-de-Mayo. Have a Tequila for…

Friday Foto Headhunters Fly Shop

April 21, 2017

Friday Foto Headhunters Fly Shop Water levels should be stable this weekend. Currently 7070 at time of writing Thursday night. Don’t think they will be coming up today. But not really sure. No faxogram from the DNRC. Looks like good…

Downtown Craig

March 5, 2017

Craiglandia, friday foto

Downtown Craig Somesnow in the ground. Snow for the next week. We like snow here in downtown Craig Montana. Makes for a better summer. Craig is warming up for the season ahead. More and more daily activity. Guide trips out…

Friday Foto

January 27, 2017

Landscape

Friday Foto You recognize that run above? Sometimes some fishy’s in there. Spooky bitches though. Tread slowly and quietly. Like a trout fly wielding ghost. Warm and windy this weekend. We will be out both days with our January Free…

Friday Foto the 13th

January 13, 2017

Landscape

Friday Foto the 13th Not as cold as it has been the entire last month. Warmer this weekend for sure. We welcome it. Wednesday night came in at -24F. Yesterday better. But still will not make above the freezing mark…

Friday Foto

November 11, 2016

Friday Foto Friday. Late Fall. 70F. Not much time left until winter is here. Would like to see a bit of fall, before bitter cold weather starts. Fall is fun. Let’s have some. Please.

Friday Foto Spey Season is in Season

November 4, 2016

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Friday Foto Spey Season is in Season Throwing the Trout Spey rod daily as we move into November. Friday today. Sunny. Let’s dismiss the sun and get into the real fall. Bring it. We are heading into a weeks worth…

Friday Foto Classic Shuttle Vehicle Breaking Away

October 28, 2016

Bicycle Movie, Bike, Breaking Away, Coming of Age, friday foto, Pink Floyd, Shuttle

This Classic Shuttle Vehicle has not fallen from style…ever. The cheapest way to fish with your drifter. No overpriced shuttle done by some fly shop who is already overcharging for flies, rods, free coffee… This bike at Stickney Creek FAS…

Friday Foto Fall Foreshadowing

September 16, 2016

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Fall, friday foto, photo

Friday Foto Fall Foreshadowing This image from the Blackfoot River last week. Bobby Clark after catching couple Cutthroat on a Chubby Chernobyl. The Blackfoot is about over as we move into cooler weather on the westside. But it is just…

Friday Foto Blackfoot Sunburst

September 9, 2016

Blackfoot River, friday foto

Friday Foto Blackfoot Sunburst Fun times on the Blackfoot. September is a nice time to be there. Get over the divide and enjoy. Fishing on the Mo? Pretty good. Read yesterday’s fishing report and we will see you this weekend!…

Friday Foto Blackfoot River Days

June 10, 2016

Blackfoot River, friday foto, Kelley Lasek

Friday Foto Blackfoot River Days Many more trips ahead of us as we movie into the meat of the summer. Traveling across the divide to fish a completely different resource the Blackfoot River is a jewel. If you are here…

Friday Foto Papu & four-O-six

May 6, 2016

Dentist, Dr Chris Mast, fourOsix, friday foto, Helena, Papu

Papu of fourOsix in Helena Montana. The coolest lifestyle, ski, snowboard, sunglass, and outstanding clothing hang in Helena. Papu is releasing this sprite Missouri River Rainbow Thursday morning. Fished a Purple Haze with a Peep Show below all day long. Papu…

Friday Foto Black and White Scene

April 8, 2016

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Friday Foto Black and White Scene Looking south from the Cascade Boat Ramp. Sunny afternoon with howling winds. This past Wednesday. Thursday 70F and calm. Today? SSW along with temps in the hi 70’s. Like 79F. Enjoyable weekend ahead. See…

Lunch Time on the Mo

March 18, 2016

Drift Boats, friday foto

Stopping for lunch on the Mo in Craig Montana. On snow days, like yesterday it feels good to take a little walk and have lunch in the cabins. It always feels good to stand up and get the blood moving…

Headhunters Fly Shop Monday Fishing Report

Friday Foto & Fishing Report

February 5, 2016

Fishing Report, Landscape

fishing report, friday foto, Weekend

Looks pretty good as far as the weekend looks. Save for the wind forecast. Will they be wrong again? Who knows. We’ll report to you after the fact. Predictions are for stockbrokers. Although I’m sure I will try to see…

Friday Foto January Edition

January 15, 2016

friday foto, January

Headhunters Guide Max Mattioli hooked up above Craig yesterday. Cold? Yes. Too cold? No. Fished for 3 hours. A perfect afternoon. Nymphed with big pink flies. Effective. The fish are in slow water but found several fish in slow plus…

Friday Foto Headhunters Holiday Shot

December 18, 2015

Fly Fishing Gear, Headhunters Life

Christmas, friday foto, Gift Card, Headhunters Holiday, Wish List

Friday Foto Headhunters Holiday Shot We are in the full holiday swing here at Headhunters. The phone is ringing for fly fishing gift items and we are mailing gifts not only to Santa but to husbands, wives, friends, and families…

Friday Foto December Snow Edition

December 4, 2015

Headhunters Life, Landscape, Photography

December, friday foto, Islands, Snow, winter

All is well here fishing Montana’s Missouri River. Friday Foto today here on the Headhunters Fly Shop Blog. Trout Spey Casting Clinic led by John tomorrow. SOLD OUT. The next one coming in January. The snow pretty much melted yesterday with…

Happy Thanksgiving from Sub-Zero Craig Montana

Friday Foto w/ short fishing report.

November 27, 2015

Fishing Report, Photography

Friday Foto with the Forest Anderson Craig Bridge today. Damn cold the last couple days with snow coverage statewide. Warming to day with anglers bound to be on the water. Gotta get rid of some of that Turkey Fat. Swingers…

Friday Foto along with BWO Report

October 23, 2015

Bugs, Fishing Report, Fly Fishing Technique

friday foto, Friday Foto along with BWO Report

Shitty bright sun this week. Some overcast yesterday afternoon. More this weekend. Thank the fishing gods for putting this sunny month to bed. Let’s finish the month with darker skies. Having said that I feel better. No more t-shirt afternoons…

Friday Foto

October 16, 2015