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Day light savings is right around the corner - skwalas are starting to move to the edges - turkeys are getting pumped up - winter is winding down and summer is coming. Kingfisher head guide Damon Cox with Jessica on the Bitterroot in July - can you say, "yellow sallies"?  

  Missoula’s 18th Annual Womens’ Fly Fishing Clinic This Clinic is all-encompassing and good for first time and beginner fly fishers alike. Students will acquire the ability to assess and adjust their own casts in the first hour. In addition to practicing fishing techniques on water, participants will learn about stream and lake entomology, reading water and tying essential knots...

When we posted up the New Zealand vid we got and e-mail from our good friend and customer Nikko in Finland with a link to this killer carp vid Enjoy

Check this trailer the video is a favorite with the shop guys

New Sage Circa - Own the sweetest small stream rod on the block.   Click here for models and pricing   The CIRCA rod with Konnetic technology is a game changer in the slow-action style of dry fly fishing. Its hypnotically smooth slower tempo combined with crisp and precise loading and unloading of each cast results in unmatched accuracy and...

Rock Creek flows northward from the Sapphire Mountains to its confluence with the Clark Fork River About 20 miles east of Missoula. Rock Creek Road parallels the waterway for most of its 40 some miles of state and private land. It is generally not a float river other than in late May and the month of June when water levels...

April/May: Similar to the Blackfoot, Rock Creek can be fairly unpredictable for dryfly fishing in April due to cold water and shaded canyon environment. Unlike the Blackfoot, however, nymph fishing this time of year is almost always good on Rock Creek, and more often than not, the dryfly fishing will be very good as well. Like all Missoula area rivers...

The Missouri is big, flat, water with the typical tailwater hatches and fish behavior. With one of the highest fish per mile counts of area rivers, this is a great place to either float or wade while concentrating on smaller chunks of river. It's one of our ace in the hole rivers during runoff periods west of the divide since...

April/May/June: This is a great time of year to be on the Missouri since the summer crowds have not shown up yet and the fish are on the surface to a variety of hatches. In April, fisherman can expect to see midge hatches so thick that floating carpets of the insects drift downstream that are as big as school buses...

The Bitterroot River flows northward towards Missoula and pretty much parallels Hwy 93. The most commonly floated area of the Bitterroot is from Hannon Memorial south of Darby all the way downstream to the confluence with the Clark Fork just west of Missoula. There is some floating to be had on the West Fork of the Bitterroot as well, but...