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Montana Backcountry Camping & Fly Fishing Adventure: Part 1

  Montana Master Minds Epic Camping Adventure Crew   Around the beginning of the year, a good friend of mine Cary Jack @cary_Jack, out of Bozeman, Montana, reached out with an idea.  He wanted to ...

Warm Water Fly Fishing is Heating Up

  Iowa Smallmouth Bass on the Fly   When the water temperatures are getting warmer all over the country, it's great to give our trout friends a break.  Warmer water contains less oxygen than colde...

Spring Iowa Largemouth Bass on the Fly

  Iowa Largemouth on The Fly   Testing fly rods can sometimes be a tough gig, but I’ll take it.  We’ve been “testing” our new El Jefe Saltwater series for months now.  The verdict is in, and they ...

Spring Iowa Smallmouth Bass on the Fly

Iowa Smallmouth Bass   Our window of time these days to get on the water can be so narrow, that no matter the weather, we are still going fishing.  There is no such thing as bad weather, just bad ...

Cutthroat Trout on the Streamer in Downtown Missoula, Montana

Cutthroat Trout Caught by Jeff Ditsworth of Pescador on the Fly   It’s hard to beat walking up to any river in the world with a fly rod and flies you tied yourself.  Especially when you walk up to...

Fly Fishing The Missouri River Near Craig, Montana

21 Inch Rainbow Trout & Professional Guide Jake Hensley   With the rivers in and around Missoula rising and turning to chocolate milk, the only game in town, was to get out of town.  Today, we...

Fly Fishing the Lower Clark Fork in Montana - Epic Skwala Hatch

Skwala on The Clark Fork   Sometimes it’s better to be lucky than good.  Timing the Skwala hatch on the lower Clark Fork near Missoula, Montana isn’t an easy thing to do.  My friend and guide Jake...

Streamer Fly Fishing for Trout in The Driftless Region March 2021

Jeff Ditsworth, Owner of Pescador on the Fly with an Iowa Driftless Brown Trout   When I left Arkansas a few weeks ago with trophy brown trout on my mind, I started thinking about fishing The Drif...

Streamer Fishing for Brown Trout on The White River in Arkansas

  Jeff Ditsworth with a Giant Brown Trout & El Jefe   The White River in Arkansas is an incredible fishery.  It’s aworld famous for their incredible population of large brown trout.  I'm told ...

Tiger Trout, White River Arkansas with Gastons Resort

    You know pretty quickly when you are fishing on The White River in Arkansas, and are the only boat on the water, that the conditions are either brutal or you are simply crazy.  I personally li...

Sub Zero Fly Fishing on The White River in Arkansas with Gaston’s

  Your birthday only comes one time a year, and regardless of the weather, some of us want to spend the day on the water.  I had a solid window of time in mid February, and wanted to target big br...

Iowa Driftless Region January 2021 Fly Fishing - North Bear Creek

  After a solid twenty four Zoom Meetings this week, it made a ton of sense to take Friday off, and make a day trip up to The Driftless Region for some peace and quiet, river style.  There’s nothi...

Welcome 2021 - Ringing in the New Year Iowa Driftless Fly Fishing

Brown Trout, Waterloo Creek   Maybe it’s just me, but there’s only one way to welcome in the new year, and it’s by getting out of the house and getting some much needed river therapy.  This year I...

Downtown Missoula Fall Fly Fishing Action, DIY Style

How cool is it to stay in a hotel that you can walk to incredible trout fishing waters and actually catch fish?  That exactly what you have at The Double Tree by Hilton in downtown Missoula.  This...

Fly Fishing The Clark Fork With My Friend Jake, aka Missoulaflyguy

  Let’s be honest, I’m a lucky guy.  One of the most unexpected things that happened to our family in the odd year of 2020 is that our daughter choose to attend college at The University of Montan...

Personal Best Carp on the Fly in October

    When you’re  fishing for smallmouth in October, I suggest bringing a big stick.  Many of you know, I’m an eight weight man when it comes to fishing streamers.  I have no problem pulling in a s...

North Platte River, Wyoming Fly Fishing with Four Seasons

  I’ve been excited for this day for quite some time.  How cool is it to have an opportunity to float the North Platte river on a gorgeous day with my good friend Kevin Hansen of Rod & Rivet a...

Big Laramie, Big Surprises, Wyoming

  Grayling in Wyoming   2020 continues to throw us curve balls.  During my visit to Wyoming, the area sustained a major wildfire named The Mullen Fire.  This one is still burning, and its quite sa...

Little Laramie, Big Fish in Wyoming

  Last week I was fortunate to be invited to join a good friend of mine, Kevin Hansen, owner of our local fly shop in Des Moines on a trip to Wyoming.  Kevin has some connections to a ranch locate...

North Bear Creek, The Driftless Morning Fly Fishing Before Work

  Need to get away?  A friend of mine recently said to me that the best thing about fly fishing is that there are 4-5 things you always need to be thinking about while fly fishing to do it well.  ...

Driftless Region in August Fly Fishing Break From the Real World

  There’s something about being without cell phone coverage, holding a beautiful fly rod in your hand, and landing a few trout that makes the problems of the world melt away. I found a small windo...

Raccoon River Summer Carp on the Fly

  When it’s ninety five degrees and it feels like one hundred and something because of the humidity, it‘s a great day to go out in search of carp on the fly.  The beautiful thing about fly fishing...

Raccoon River Carp on the Fly

Today was a special day because I got out on the river with our daughter, which doesn’t happen very often.  She recently graduated from high school, and is attending The University of Montana in t...

Floating The Big Blackfoot Near Missoula, Montana

  Naturally, on a college visit to Missoula with our daughter, there must be some time allocated for fly fishing.  That was my excuse this time, as if I needed an excuse to test some fly fishing g...