montana

[salmonfly]

Was fortunate enough to get out of this state for a week and fish montana. Spent a couple days on rock creek. Got there just at the tailend of the pteronarcys, but still caught quite a few on the size 4 rogue salmonfly. The real action however came off the goldens. Man, it was incredible, my brother and I landed probaly 40 fish each day, with 3 times that in missed hits. What a river, nowhere else does a river have scenery like the rock. Fished a couple of hidden creeks(montana calls them creeks, I should say river)around in the area. Caught the native westslope cutt, If you have never seen one, all I can say is incredible. the orange is flourescent, the yellow are gold, my rod was bent in more ways than one. Only downfall of the trip, was leaving the green lush mountain sides and pine trees are far as on could see, to come home to a ugly, hot ,sweltering, crowded utah. gotta get outta here, and get up to gods country.

[Trout4x]

If you hate it so bad here why don't you move? I really enjoy Utah & what it has to offer me with the Outdoors.

[IdahoFishBoy]

Just stay in Montana then.

[Jason]

Come on guys, give him a break. If you lived and worked in the Salt Lake Valley and had to deal with all the traffic, crowded supermakets, work, smog, the heat, and road ragers, Montana country would be hell of a lot better than here (if you had the choice). I could probably say the same thing about eastern Idaho and Western Wyoming. If I could live there year round I'd probably do it. But then again, it's sometimes nice to come back to the hussle and bussle.

Nice report Salmonfly. Were you fishing big golden stone dry flies?

[flyfshr8]

Salmomfly-

WOW! Which Rock Creek if I may ask? Over Missoula way?

Going next week to fish Georgetown and Rock Creek with my friend Bill I hope. Any reports from there would be appreciated.

[Crosby]

Great area- usually fish that and then over to the Clark Fork-
Good to see you had a great time. God lives in Utah but tend to think he vacations in Montana.

[Larry S.]

...have you ever noticed that Idaho,Montana, Wyoming,Oregon, Washington in ther travel brochures(s) hardly ever show the dry burnt up eastern parts of their states(in Idaho's case SW)? At least here we show off our deserts(except Filmore!).

Just trolling....... ;^)

[Jeff Camomile]

How good is the winter fishing in other states? One reason I like Utah is decent winter fishing. 35 degrees and above in the winter happens quite often here, but I bet that would be rare in Montana. Don't know if I could give up fly fishing for half of the year.

[Indylab]

Nymphing on the Madison in the winter is incredible.

[Crosby]

Have to believe that Missoula is warmer than Cache Valley- but then short of Big Piney what place isn't?? Last year in Cache Valley 35 degress? I would have been wet wading and enjoying it (0:

[MOKE]

Did I ever tell you that Home Creek is a year round dry fly fishery?
Beetle and hopper patterns in January...on the surface.
What are waders?
Wet wading all year long.
At most, some neoprene *booties* to help keep the feet warm in the morning.
Isn't it that way everywhere? ;)

MOKE

[flyfshr8]

Montana has quite a few known and unknown spring creeks where the water stays a constant temp all year due to the thermo properties of the water that supplies them. Nymph fishing in December,January and February is spectacular (if you can manage to beat the wind!).

There are spring creeks around Dillon, MT, for example, where the browns migrate out of the Beaverhead and stack up in every hole, waiting for an unsuspecting Bighorn Scud or Serendipity hatch to 'bounce along'. Streamer fishing in February is killer too.

[raposaNegra]

Originally posted by CROSBY
Have to believe that Missoula is warmer than Cache Valley- but then short of Big Piney what place isn't?? Last year in Cache Valley 35 degress? I would have been wet wading and enjoying it (0:

Stanley Idaho... has to be the coldest city in the lower 48. It is continually appearing in the coldest tempurature for the country slot on the weather report. I've picked up 6" snow there in July.

[Larry S.]

So are Woodruff and Randolph. Not to mention Peter Sinks but that one always amazed me. Who the h--l goes up there to find out?

[robinsoj]

I moved to Layton from San Antonio, Texas 5 years ago. Fishing was of interest to me, but not as much as golf. I discovered that there are lots of great places to fish within an hour and a half drive. I didn't fly fish for the first year or two which reduced the enjoyment. Once I started fly fishing I enjoyed the scenery more and had more fun in general. I've never ventured out of this area to fly fish. I'm at the point now that I still like to fly fish in this area, but I don't do it as much. I'm sure the fly fishing has to be a lot better in other areas. Parts of Montana probably beat the hell out of this area, but the grass is always greener on the other side. People that are always fishing in Montana are probably dying to fish the Provo. They just don't know it probably wouldn't be worth the trip for them. Also, it's nice to have the Uintas in this area. It's like another world.

[Crosby]

Raposa- true story----- I was there in April quite a few years ago-
steelieing----- it was 35 to 40 the first few days- dropped that night to a -25- river gelled up received 1ft 1/2 of snow- waders had a leak- foot froze up= frostbite- luckily I left everyone around the dam at sunbeam- walked up to the little country store- the old boy saw my problem- said if I listen to him talk about Gold digging I could take a shower, clean up, he'd fix me breakfast and let me turn the dish to whatever station I wanted - which happened to be UNLV VS Indiana I think in the NCAA'S and brought me out a 12 pack later- I just wasn't allowed to sit in the lounge chair by the stove because that was his dogs seat- gotta love that. Had a buddy who only brought a fall sleeping bag- luckily I carry 2 to 3 of everything on Gods green earth in my truck and I had and xtra snowmobile suit and sleeping bag- Thats the coldest I have ever been. And that includes ice fishing off South Bass Island on Lake Eire in a full snow storm. But as Larry said- Peter Sinks was in the high minus 60's the first year I came here (72) I asked my parents if they knew that Logan was really in outer Siberia and they had forgot to get me a passport.

[flyfshr8]

robinsoj-

My wife is from here, and when we lived in MT., we used to come down and see her mom a lot. Figured the Provo would be a change, and I'd always heard big stories about how the Madison didn't have anything on the Provo.

Although I'll allow there are some good fish there, I ran in to some real IDIOTS on the stream. The people is what it had over the Maddy.

Not only is the grass greener, you can't beat the solitude of the other side of the fence.