Fishing Report August 29th 2025
Black Hills Fly Fishing Report – August 29, 2025 Labor Day Weekend Edition Labor Day weekend is here! The Rally is behind us, traffic is back to normal, and we’ve...
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Fishing Report August 29th 2025
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Epic Fly Rod Build!
We've been patiently waiting for a package from New Zealand to show up, and it finally did last week. Dave texted me a picture of Karl opening his Epic Wrap-Your-Own...
Ryan Gabert |
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Weekend Fishing Forecast
60 degrees today in Rapid City, and a whopping 67 tomorrow! The fishing opportunities this weekend will be fantastic, with many places to go. Options are good. Dries? There should...
Ryan Gabert |
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Missouri River Trout
When fly fishermen think of the Missouri River, most think of the stretch below Holter Dam near Craig, Montana. The Missouri there is a typical tailwater trout tiver - complete...
Ryan Gabert |
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Black Hills Fishing Report - 2/20/2016
The weather has been a little on the less-wintery side lately, which is a bit strange for February. However, because of the warm weather the fishing has been fantastic! The...
Ryan Gabert |
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New Video!
We got out and fished a bit last week, and had a great day of winter fly fishing! Dry fly fishing was excellent, and we caught a few on nymphs...
Ryan Gabert |
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Prairie Trout.
We got out on the water a bit last week, and had some good luck even with the windy conditions! We headed up to Crow Creek mid-week with the expectation...
Ryan Gabert |
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Black Hills Fishing Report - 2/9/2016
The weather in the Black Hills as of this writing is excellent. Like 50 degrees excellent, and the near future is looking pretty darn good as well, with a minor...
Ryan Gabert |
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Pike Fly Fishing School - April 19, 2016
We've had a few people book for our Pike fly fishing school, and have had quite a bit of interest in it! After mulling over how we should go about...
Ryan Gabert |
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Morgan's Midge Fly Tying Video
Tying the Morgan's Midge One of our go to midge patterns. This pattern is little known, but it's hard to understand why. It is consistent year after year and on...
Hans Stephenson |
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Morgan's Midges, and Why They Rock.
The Morgan's Midge has been a staple in the fly shop bins since I've been around - going on 9 years now. Even with as long as we've had it,...
Ryan Gabert |
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Black Hills Fly Fishing Report - 2/1/16
Hopefully everyone got out and enjoyed some of the great weather we had over the last few days, and possibly threw a fly around a bit! With January gone, it's...
Ryan Gabert |
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Rapid Creek Midge Hatch
With the great weather we've been having, all of us at the shop have been getting out and fishing on Rapid Creek in town. Long story short, the fishing is...
Ryan Gabert |
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Weekend Fishing Forecast
The weather is awful nice for the latter part of January - the highs were well into the fifties today. For the adventurous wintertime fly angler, this means great fishing...
Ryan Gabert |
