Bighorn River Trout Spey Trip 2017
Steelhead fishing introduced us to Spey casting, and it's become a bit of an obsession over the past several years. It's a pretty cool feeling when you set up a...
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Iridescent Root Beer Midge
In our latest fly tying video, Ryan Gabert ties the Iridescent Root Beer Midge. This has been a hot fly this winter on Rapid Creek and Spearfish Creek. The Iridescent...
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Travel Blog - Bighorn River, December 2015
We're driving through Gillette, Wyoming at 5:00 am and it's -12 degrees out. I've got the heater cranked on my pickup hard enough that we feel like we're in a...
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Bighorn River Trip
I made the trek over to the Bighorn River in Ft. Smith, Montana late last week, and had an exceptional trip! The nymphing was good as always, with Pink hot...
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New Jig Flies and Cork Indicators!
We custom ordered some new jig patterns for the bins, and they've arrived! Jig nymphs are some of out most productive patterns here in the Black Hills, and these are...
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Student CDC Dry Fly - Fly Tying Video
The Student is a fly pattern popularized on the Bighorn River. It isn't much to look at, but like the F-Fly this simple CDC (Cul de Canard) dry fly catches...
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Choosing The Right Fly Line For You!
Picking a new fly line can be tricky business - All the mumbo-jumbo talk about tapers, coatings, cores, and technologies in new fly lines can get to be dizzying and...
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Ray Charles Sow bug
The Ray Charles pattern is a Bighorn River staple. It catches fish everyday of the year on the Bighorn. It works on many other tailwaters. It works to imitate small...
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Fly Tying with Hans- Tungsten Skinny Nelson
The Skinny Nelson is a Baetis nymph pattern developed for the Bighorn River in Montana by Tracy Peterson. It is a simple but deadly fly. It works great in any...
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Hans' Sowbug (Sow Bug Fly Pattern)
Hans' Sowbug is an alternative to some of the more common sow bug fly patterns. This pattern has worked quite well on the Bighorn River. The Ray Charles pattern works...
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Tying the Firebead Sowbug
This is a pattern that some crafty fly tier on the Bighorn River? came up with. It works like hotcakes in the spring, especially on tailwaters like the Bighorn. Tie...
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