Friday Foto November 22
Friday Foto November 22 Moving into late November. Turkey Day next week. Enjoy your weekend.
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Upper Missouri River Watershed Alliance Video
Upper Missouri River Watershed Alliance Video The new video from Upper Missouri River Watershed Alliance. Snowing here in Craig today. This video shot in early August. It was warmer then. Hey if you are looking for organizations to donate monies…
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Winter is around the corner
Winter is around the corner Snowing Tuesday afternoon. This may be the last of fall. Not that we had much fall around these parts. A smattering of guide trips out this last week and coming this weekend. This could be…
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Sunday Beastie Boys Glasgow 1999
Sunday Beastie Boys Glasgow 1999 Best concert I never went to. Honest. I am a huge Beastie Boys fan with influences that include jazz, funk, punk, soul, 70’s and 80’s beats, rock and beyond. A diverse music knowledge flows through…
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Friday Foto Craig Bridge Scene
Friday Foto Craig Bridge Scene Chillin’ on this Friday mid-month. Spey trips out this weekend. The swinging is good. Been walk wading and enjoying it. See you out there this afternoon. After accounting work. At home. With Bailey’s in the…
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Thursday Tying Video
Thursday Tying Video This is one fly you should have in your possession at all times. honest. Swing this baby in the fall. Strip it in the spring. Or, vice-versa. Or, both. Change the colors if you wish. Why not…
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Mike says…I’d get out there this week
Mike says…I’d get out there this week Speaking with Mike of Headhunters, on the phone, this morning at Trout Spey HQ standing in my bathrobe drinking Baileys along with a splash of coffee and he said…I’d get out there this…
Read MoreVeterans Day 2019
Veterans Day 2019 We honor all that served. Thank you veterans. We honor you today, and everyday. You protect us, the nation, and nations around us daily. Thank you for your service.
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This is what happens to Future Fly Fishers
This is what happens to Future Fly Fishers Father and son Randy and Josh fishing with Mark Friday. They have been fishing together since Josh was. youth. Have fished with the other two sons as well. They all started as…
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Friday Foto Parrothead Edition
Friday Foto Parrothead Edition A throwback today for Friday Foto Parrothead Edition. This shot November 2009. A snow year. As you remember ’08-’11 were all big water years. Therefore, a snowy winter. Including November. This shot after our second year…
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Monday Morning November 4th Missouri River Fishing Report
Monday Morning November 4th Missouri River Fishing Report Just the facts today on this Monday November 4th. Water Temps are good at a flat 45F. Would like them to stay here for about a month. It may be a shitty…
Read MoreBeastie Boys meet Isley Brothers
Beastie Boys meet Isley Brothers One of my favorite jams of all time is on the Beastie Boys B-Boy Bouillabaisse, A Year and A day. The guitar sample is from That Lady Isley Brothers ’73 track that was a cover…
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Friday Foto Baetis Blanket Hatch
Friday Foto Baetis Blanket Hatch Happy Friday. Baetis are hatching. Clouds. We like clouds. Please leave the wind in Livingston. See you on the river.
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Thursday, Halloween, The Nat’s WIN, and November Ahead
Thursday, Halloween, The Nat’s WIN, and November Ahead Not much to report today other than the river is quiet. Not too many around. Not one guide trip out the last couple days. And that is good. Why? Because it was…
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Fall is for friends, BWO’s, and fishing
Fall is for friends, BWO’s, and fishing Although ti does not feel like fall out there. It feels like February. The phone weather app states it feels like 12F outside. And it does. So we wait. Until tomorrow. Air temps…
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Monday Late October Fishing Report
Monday Late October Fishing Report Headhunters is hosting the RIO Line Co for the 17th year. A fun ten day run as always but this year the fishing has been better than the last 8-10 years. More consistent, daily hatches,…
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Silly Snow and Sunday Scenery
Silly Snow and Sunday Scenery Snowing again this morning. That’ll keep some from the water. Good sports too. Football, baseball, casting. Good BWO hatch yesterday. Again today. If the wind lays down, it’ll be epic. We’ll be out there monitoring…
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Headhunter Fly Line Video
Headhunter Fly Line Video Check out our proprietary Headhunters Fly Line designed by Headhunters, for Headhunters. Watch the video. Buy the fly line. Raise the bar on your dry fly game. Saturday here on the Mo. Snowing. 4th snow of…
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Late October Weekend Missouri River Fishing Report
Late October Weekend Missouri River Fishing Report Fishing is heating up. It has not been a record fall as we write this fishing report mid day Friday October 25th. Fair fishing. Not fo the fickle. Those who fish here more…
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Wednesday Missouri River Fall Fishing Image
Wednesday Missouri River Fall Fishing Image Anglers dwindling. Wide open spaces. Feeling pretty good. The wind did blow yesterday. Not 100, but felt like it. Today forecast for snow. Will the bugs show? Chris of Anglers All in Denver…
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Tuesday in Central Montana c/o Headhunters of Craig
Tuesday in Central Montana c/o Headhunters of Craig Water temps holding well as they have just dipped below the 59F mark. Flows at 4650, better than normal. Weeds not too bad but there are some mega rafts of weeds that…
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Monday HH Fishing Report
Monday HH Fishing Report Flows are good, and historically average at 4200cfs. Water temps 51F. Should be stable for the week ahead. BWO’s, Pseudo’s, tan caddis. Those are your daily bugs. Most days, or even some days. Weather ahead? 50’s…
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Saturday Trout Spey Camp Update
Saturday Trout Spey Camp Update Halfway through day 3 of our 2019 Trout Spey Camp. Sunny 52F. All is well! 7F Thursday morning. Feels good to have the sun on our backs! The anglers are out fishing the Mo. Swinging.…
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Friday Foto #troutspeycamp 2019
Friday Foto #troutspeycamp 2019 Fun times. Trout Spey Camp 2019. #troutspeycamp Fishing not too good. The catching part. The fishing part real swell. The swinging is good. Lots of fun trying new rods and lines and such from he product…
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Thursday October 10th Headhunters Fly Shop Fishing Report
Thursday October 10th Headhunters Fly Shop Fishing Report Lots happening locally as we kick off our Trout Spey Camp 2019 this morning with a cast of thousands here in downtown Craig Montana. Spey casters from around the country and beyond…
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New Breed Chicks Rule Alena Edition
New Breed Chicks Rule Alena Edition Alena with this nice brown trout caught while fishing with Headhunters guide Lindsey Channel. El Segundo has many talents including killer pics with a paint brush in hand. Not a one trick pony. No…
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Montana Trout Spey Video Scumliner Media
Montana Trout Spey Video Scumliner Media New, no. Cool, yes. I have watched this a ton of times. And I’m gonna watch it many more today. I love watching good casters. It never gets old. Mental training is important in…
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Double Spey River Right Video
Double Spey River Right Video A quick video today on this Sunday previous to our big Trout Spey Camp beginning this Thursday. Funtimes ahead. The spey bite has been good with streamers primarily followed by the soft hackle. Seconded. Not…
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Silly Saturday Scenery
Silly Saturday Scenery Awful nice out there. Love October. Hey some are saying we do not state the truth on this report. That they don’t like how we present information. that we should change the way we operate here in…
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Throwback Thursday Shop Interior 2010
Throwback Thursday Shop Interior 2010 First year of the expanded ceiling and new color ways. First year we opened for 12 months, everyday but Christmas. First year of this decade. 3rd year of Headhunters Fly Shop. Last year of this…
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Wednesday Headhunters Fishing Report 10.2.19
Wednesday Headhunters Fishing Report 10.2.19 Day 2 of October. Liking it already. The morning temps are cool. 17F as we write this. A cool 13F yesterday morning. But the afternoon was fantastic with air temps crawling into the Hi 30’s!…
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Tying Tuesday @ Headhunters of Craig
Tying Tuesday @ Headhunters of Craig The Sparrow is a fly that flat out works. Commonly swung through Missouri River Trout Spey runs. Or employed with a single hander while fishing the RIO Single Handed Spey Line. Squeeky’s favorite single…
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Mo River October Caddis Love
Mo River October Caddis Love September is over and we look forward to October as it is one of our favorite months here on the banks of Montana’s Mighty Missouri River. Therefore, we proclaim our Mo River October Caddis Love.…
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Sunday Snow Report from Headhunters of Craig
Sunday Snow Report from Headhunters of Craig Still snowing here in Craig. Not as much as the doomsday report had got us ready for. But thankfully we were prepared. Blowing hard from the north as we write. Drifting snow around…
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Silly September Saturday Scenery and Fishing Report
Silly September Saturday Scenery Fall is here. Autumn may be gone with the snow from this winter event we are currently enduring, Snowing hard in Cascade with at least 2″ on the ground already this morning. Projected to be 15″+…
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Friday Foto Calm before the Storm
Friday Foto Calm before the Storm Cool, calm, overcast. That is the status today. Rained last night. Do we historically have snow this time of year? Oh yeah. Generally we have already had a spit or two of snow. Almost…
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Face Plant Minnow JAV Video
Face Plant Minnow JAV Video Appropriate for the weekend snow ahead of us here in downtown Craig Montana. Tying in the snow, inside. Tying for the streamer season, which has indeed started. Tying because you like to have cool streamer…
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Dangerous Type The Cars Ric Ocasek
Dangerous Type The Cars Ric Ocasek RIP Ric. Big band when I was a kid. Bought several albums from Columbia House back of the magazine subscriptions including my first 2 Cars albums. Then I was hooked on Ric Ocacek’s voice…
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New Breed Chicks Rule Diane Edition
New Breed Chicks Rule Diane Edition Diane fishes a ton. And catches fish like this one. Big Brown Trout. She smiles too. Just not in this shot. Stoic here. Thanks to Gary for the photo! Thanks Diane. Love the pic!…
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Weekend Missouri River Fishing Report
Weekend Missouri River Fishing Report Getting better daily. The nymph bite has stabilized with the better catch rates mid day. It has cocked off in the late afternoons though. 11-3 has fished pretty well the past couple days, Weeds get…
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Headhunters has Guides
Headhunters has Guides Shane Wilson above laughing with his guests Tuesday, Need a fly fishing guide on the Missouri River Montana? Headhunters has guides. A bundle of full time ones. Available all the way thru Christmas. And beyond. Call today…
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Monday Morning Missouri River Briefing
Monday Morning Missouri River Briefing Good, decent, great, not so great, slow. All heard in the shop post fishing this last week. Guide Brett Matula said to me this week “If you capitalize on half of the eats today you…
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Howard and Bob’s Excellent Adventure
Howard and Bob’s Excellent Adventure Howard and Bob caught fish all over the state on grasshoppers this past week. This hopper double on the Mo. Great fishing n the Blackfoot as well with Mark of Headhunters. Awesome couple of days…
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New Breed Chicks Rule Aislinn Edition
New Breed Chicks Rule Aislinn Edition New Breed Chick Aislinn rocking this nice rainbow last week. Thanks Aislinn for bringing your cool son Finn too. He will grace the pages of this blog shortly. Aislin lives with her hubby Chris…
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Friday Fall Foto
Friday Fall Foto All good here on the Mo. Weedy? Yes. The upper end not as much. Towards Cascade not as much. It seems to get eaten up by the rapids at Half Breed? Always strange. Fishing decent, not as…
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Missouri River 9.8.19 Fishing Report
Missouri River 9.8.19 Fishing Report Water Temps are about 62F-64F and may fall a bit this week with eh overcast rainy skies. Water Flows 5010cfs. Above average and feeling good. Weeds here and there. I personally think a level 6.…
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Silly Saturday Scenery
Silly Saturday Scenery Autumn weather. An Autumn mood. Fishing is turning for the better, I think. I feel it in my bones. Decent bite sub-surface Friday. Decent bite on the surface. Overall? Decent. Today? Could be better. Will have to…
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Howard, Bob, and the Blackfoot
Howard, Bob, and the Blackfoot Fished the Blackfoot on Thursday. It was good. Several nice Cutthroat on hoppers. A couple on droppers. Light traffic, fabulous weather, no wind, and great conversation. And the fishing was good. A turn for the…
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Headhunters Surf T
Headhunters Surf T Autumn weather brings on the need for a long sleeve T some mornings. Soon a hoody or puffball to start the day, over your Headhunters Surf Logo T. We love the long sleeve shirt. Breathes well, protects…
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Friday Fishing Report from Headhunters of Craig Montana
Friday Fishing Report from Headhunters of Craig Montana Flows at 4770cfs. Above average for this time of year. We like more water. Some don’t. But some do. Water temperatures 61F-65F daily. Good there too. Not too hot. So far not…
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Thursday Upcoming Missouri River Events Update
Thursday Upcoming Missouri River Events Update August Fishing Bugs: Trico’s, ants, hoppers, Callibaetis, Caddis, Spruce Moths, beetles. Trico’s steal the show on this one, at least for Headhunters. The afternoons can be filled with good attractor fishing, but not everyday.…
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New Breed Chicks Rule Margaret Edition
New Breed Chicks Rule Margaret Edition This gal, Margaret, is 70yrs young. Her first trip to the Mo. First time fishing. First Rainbow. She likes it. We like it too Margaret. Thanks for visiting us here at Headhunters Fly Shop…
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Silly Sunday Scenery August Style
Silly Sunday Scenery August Style Bunches of Trico’s out there daily. Spinner fall 843 am. Daily. I like August. But not always. This is the 3rd year in a row where we will have awesome fishing, no crowds, and you.…
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Headhunters Dead Drifter Logo Gear
Headhunters Dead Drifter Logo Gear Very popular at the Headhunters Shop in Craig is are the 3 current Dead Drifter Logo times. T’s, Stickers, and two colors of Buff’s! Get on board today! Follow the Dead Drifter link and shop…
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Friday Foto Fishing Report 8.2.19
Friday Foto Fishing Report 8.2.19 Good. Dry fly fishing good. Hard? Yep. The nymphers are wrecking them on Purple & Gold Weight Flies, caddis pupa, and sows and Trico nymphs, PMD nymphs, and more! Come by and let us set…
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