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Birds, Bugs, Fishing Report

Bugs, Flows, Hatches, MArch, Missouri River March Fishing Forecast, Weather

Missouri River March Fishing Forecast Things to think about in March Day 1 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…

Missouri River February Fishing Forecast 2022

February 7, 2022

clinics, Dates, February, Flows, Forecast, Hatches, missouri river, Montana, Vacation Planning, Weather, winter

Missouri River February Fishing Forecast 2022 Welcome to February. Football is nearly over, baseball may not be coming on time, and the fishing has been above average. We are getting nearer to spring ’22 everyday and we for one are…

Missouri River Fly Fishing January Forecast

January 4, 2020

Fishing Report, Fly Fishing Video, Headhunters Life

fishing, January, Missouri River January Forecast, Slush, spey, troutspey, Weather

Missouri River Fly Fishing January Forecast January Missouri River Weather Forecast Pretty stable for the next ten days with air temps in the mid 20’s at night along with daily highs in the mid 30’s. Lots of cloud cover predicted…

Mike says…I’d get out there this week

November 13, 2019

Fishing Report, Headhunters Life

Indian Summer, Midges, November, Swing, Trout Spey, Weather

Mike says…I’d get out there this week Speaking with Mike of Headhunters, on the phone, this morning at Trout Spey HQ standing in my bathrobe drinking Baileys along with a splash of coffee and he said…I’d get out there this…

Missouri River Fishing Report 5.21.18

May 21, 2018

Dry Flies, Flows, Missouri River Fishing Report 5.21.18, Nymphs, Weather

Missouri River Fishing Report 5.21.18 Missouri River Flows 15K-ish and holding I will call Stephanie Micek again this morning and find out what the latest scoop on the water situation is. But I suspect it will be the same as…

Late January Missouri River Fishing Report

January 22, 2018

fishing report, Float, Flows, Late January, missouri river, Sink, Swing, Weather, winter

Late January Missouri River Fishing Report Mid Winter check on Montana’s Missouri River as we today give you the Late January Missouri River Fishing Report from your information source Headhunters Fly Shop of Craig Montana. Facts fill the fishing report…

Winter Rewards Fishing the Missouri River

November 5, 2017

Headhunters Life, Troutspey

Friends, Snow, spey, Swinging Flies, Trout Spey, Weather, winter

Winter Rewards Fishing the Missouri River Trout Spey casters up all the way from Big Sky. Bill, Jason, Rob, and Todd ventured up the state to the Mighty Mo to swing a few flies. And they were rewarded with nice…

Winter Weather this weekend!

September 21, 2017

Headhunters Life

September, Weather, winter

Winter Weather this weekend! Looking forward to it. Really liked the wet week we just had 7 days ago. 2″-4″ Friday. Bring it. The dry fly fishing pretty good. Pseudo rising trout are on the bite. The nymphing is sick.…

Water levels, Weather, and a short State of the Mo

August 2, 2017

Ants, August, Hoppers, missouri river, Trico's, Water LEvels, Weather

Water levels, Weather, and a short State of the Mo Hump Day here in central Montana as we talk about Water levels, Weather, and a short State of the Mo. Water levels look to be steady as we get the fresh…

May 4th Missouri River Fishing Report

May 4, 2017

BWO, Fly Fishing, March Brown, May, Mother's Day Caddis, report, Spring, Water LEvels, Weather

May 4th Missouri River Fishing Report Water levels falling a bit to 7.3K and wear temperatures rising upwards to 48F. So some movement yesterday in the action. Along with the water fluctuations we now bring you summer air temperatures for…

Missouri River April May Fly Fishing Forecast

April 11, 2017

Birds, Bugs, Fishing Report, Fly Fishing Technique, Nature

April, birds, Bugs, Forecast, May, Populations, Trout, Water LEvels, Weather

Missouri River April May Fly Fishing Forecast Squeeky attended the annual Upper Missouri River water Advisory Meeting last week and got the skinny on the upcoming water flow predictions and the update on the trout populations. Lots of folks in…

Monday April 10th Missouri River Stats

April 10, 2017

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April, Bugs, Flows, Stats, Water Temps, Weather

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…

HFS Weather & River Conditions

February 19, 2017

Fishing Report, Fly Fishing Technique, Headhunters Life, Nature

Headhunters Life

Weather

In our constant effort to make our website more mobile friendly, we’ve just installed a new custom element to the home page of our website that we think you all will appreciate. The widget shows up to date reporting for…

Fishing Report – Get Out There!

February 12, 2017

Braden Lewis

fishing report, fly fishing technique, Missouri River Montana Fishing Report, Weather, winter

This Past Week It’s hard to believe that the Super Bowl was only one week ago. A lot has changed on the river in the past week. We received significant snow fall during the middle of last week that added to the…

Report from Ice Station Zebra

December 14, 2016

Headhunters Life, Uncategorized

COLD, fishing, ice, Weather, winter

Above: Sara Roholt attempts to free the ice from her guides while swinging the Missouri River at -10. Extreme cold has settled in to the Northern Rockies for longer than it usually does. Really cold, and with it lots of…

Tuesday Missouri River Fishing Report

September 13, 2016

BWO's, Fall, fishing report, Nymphs, September, Streamer, Weather, Weeds

Tuesday Missouri River Fishing Report The river is active out there as we are headlong into this popular September month. Nymphers love to visit in September as the fish get off of the August slow down. Although this last August…

Inconsistencies

May 23, 2016

Fishing Report, Headhunters Life

Weather

The above image shows Missouri River guide Eric Mondragon and clients shoving off into the wind at Wolf Creek on Sunday morning. We’ve had plenty of wind lately. Often from the north, which impacts everything from boat control and casting…

Missouri River February Fly Fishing Forecast 2016

February 9, 2016

Birds Bugs and Wildlife, Fishing Report

Bugs, February Fly Fishing Forecast 2016, Hatches, Nymphs, Streamers, Weather, winter

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…

Welcome to the Missouri River December

December 1, 2015

Fishing Report, Headhunters Life, Troutspey

December, fishing, Hatches, spey, Trout Spey, Weather, winter

December 1st. All is well. Cold as it should be. A common winter question at the shop is “Do you really fish during the winter? When the weather is like this? Really? Oh yeah. And we are not the only…

El Nino Impacts Montana Winters

October 20, 2015

Conservation, Headhunters Life

el nino, snowpack, Weather, winter

excellent images and video from NOAAclimate.gov We’ been reading all summer that a potentially big El Nino event could impact North America this coming winter. It looks as though that forecast will prove correct. The Pacific is warming rapidly creating…

The rain cometh…

July 27, 2015