April 2010

Bighorn Trout Shop: Welcomes Hardy Fly Fishing

April 29, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

The Bighorn Trout Shop is now carrying a full line of Hardy rods, reels, lines and accessories. To see the full line of Hardy products visit http://fly.hardyfishing.com/en-us/home/ For availability or to order contact us here at the shop. 406 666 2375

Cool Weather Returns…….

April 29, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

After a week of nice weather rain and wind has moved into the area. Nymphing has slowed down over the past few days. The dry fly fishing is present when the wind settles down.

Bighorn River: Three Days in Spring

April 24, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

Guide Steve Galletta and Client Bill Richards with a big rainbow I’ve been guiding the last three days and thought you’d appreciate a more detailed fishing report. First of all, the fishing is good, as it almost always is this time of the year. Trout are feeding heavily on midges for the most part, and [...]

Blue Winged Olives

April 23, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

With clouds moving in the past two days the baetis fishing has steadily improved. Fish have typically keyed in on the adults by 2 or 3 in the afternoon. The midge fishing remains good throughout the day especially in the morning. Midge fishing the past two days has been very good. Look for slower areas [...]

Bighorn Fishing Report: More Midges

April 20, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

Midge continues to be the name of the game. Surface fishing has been very good. Single midges in the morning and clusters in the afternoon. Nymphing underneath has been steady, the river gets mossy the further you go down. Effective Patterns: Birschell’s Hatching Midge, Griffith’s Gnat, quill, midge pupa, skinny bill, zebra midge

Bighorn River Grasshopper Outlook

April 14, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

The Government is predicting that we will see another summer with an over abundance of grasshoppers in our area. 2009 produced some of the best hopper fishing the Bighorn has ever seen. Hopefully this will lead to incredible surface action from July – September in 2010. Only time will tell…….

April 12, 2010 Fishing Report

April 12, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

The lack of wind made the dry Fly Fishing on the upper river good yesterday. Midges were the name of the game. A size 20 griffiths gnat was effective throughout the afternoon. Effective Spring Fly:

Fishing Report: Midges and BWO’s

April 11, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

Fishing has been ok the past few days. The surface fishing hasn’t been quiet as hot as the past few weeks. When nymphing you will find the fish bunched together with the cold water temp’s. When you find one work that area hard. Look for surface activity with midges in all the usual areas; slow [...]

Bighorn River BWO Dry Fly Fishing

April 8, 2010 Bighorn Videos Read the full article →

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIp-0tTPJeM Link to full youtube video This video was shot in the spring of 2010 during a dense Blue Wiged Olive hatch. We were fishing directly upstream to a large pod of risers on a large flat. We were fishing a 9 foot 5x leader with a BWO Sparkle Dun.

Midge Game Continues…..

April 5, 2010 Fishing Reports Read the full article →

David was on the river yesterday. The midge fishing continued to be the name of the game. Blue Winged Olive’s were present, but the trout seemed to be keyed in on the midge larva and pupa. The weather as of late has come back down to more normal temperatures for this time of year. As spring [...]