America’s Watersheds
We are the pink section in the map above. It may not be all that blue this summer if the mild and dry winter continues. We are so fortunate to be the recipient of major river above us like the…
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January Spey Report from Richard
January Spey Report from Richard Trout Spey Report 1.13.19 Fishing in January, what more can I say. While many across the country are drilling holes through hard water, the crew at Headhunters are chasing trout with a spey rod. In…
Read More F3T Trailer and Dates
F3T Trailer and Dates The Fly Fishing Film Tour in Helena February 5th Grand Street Theater Doors open at 6pm. Film to follow.In Great Falls January 25th at the Do Bar Doors open at 630 Film at 7pm. Head out…
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Your Trout Voice and Concerns Matter
The upshot from Walleye’s Unlimited is this: They want more big walleye in the reservoirs and river systems. Catch rates and average size has decreased in the recent past. WU would like FWP to encourage walleye growth. The complaint is…
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Curt McChesney Memorial
Curt McChesney Memorial Curt was a feller that liked everybody, and was liked by all. Fishing and guiding around Curt was always a pleasure. My day was always better when I saw and had interaction with Curt on the water.…
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Tuesday January 8th Headhunters Fishing Report
Tuesday January 8th Headhunters Fishing Report When the wind dies down, it’s pretty nice out there. More than one customer this past couple weeks has said that. And the wind did die recently. Yesterday quite blow-y. Today? Not as much…
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2019 Water Projection: Missouri River Charts you need to see
2019 Water Projection: Missouri River Charts you need to see The top image is telling. 103 days of potential water ahead of us. Mid April is the peak of the snow on the ground. The water that counts for the…
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Silly Sunday Scenery September 25th 2009
Silly Sunday Scenery September 25th 2009 Love this image. Or the feel of it. It looks like Autumn. It feels like Autumn. It feels like grasshopper fishing. 2018 August was as good as it gets. For anytime of the year.…
Read More Holiday in the Sun Sex Pistols
Holiday in the Sun Sex Pistols Plan your Holiday in the Sun…in Craig Montana. Maybe the Sex Pistols will be punk’ng out on Izaak’s Log Jam. Going back a few years to my youth. As a teenager, the Sex Pistols…
Read More Craig Montana and Missouri River Quiz! Contest! Winner. Answers
Craig Montana and Missouri River Quiz! Winner! Answers! Not too many entries that could challenge Master of the Mo. Most of the entries came in the 11th hour. Erin Wombold was the early leader. And then many more piled into…
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January 2nd Missouri River Fishing Report
January 2nd Missouri River Fishing Report Cold. Water temps 35-ish. When it drops below 36 we consider that cold. Do the fish bite. Oh yeah. Gotta eat. Flows near 5000 cfs. A common and historical winter flow. Sometimes, commonly, t…
Read More Happy New Year’s Day
Happy New Year’s Day New Year’s Resolutions for Squeeky include… More smiling. More fishing. More smoking of meats. Fewer whacko’s in public office. More chill. Way more chill. More dry fly fishing. Enjoy the New Year. Start fresh. Live peacefully.…
Read More Beastie Boys You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party!
You Gotta Fight For Your Right To Party! Happy New Year! Be safe. Nobody needs to start the year in the slammer. Designated Drivers, and Uber. See you at the Polar Bear Plunge New Years Day High Noon Craig Boat…
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Summer Scenes
Summer Scenes I for one am looking towards summer. I do like winter. Sort of. I just like summer better. Not so wrong. Is it? Football today. Do something productive during the commercial breaks. Like pulling off those dirty lines…
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Merry Christmas
Merry Christmas Merry Christmas. Enjoy your day. I know we are. Open til noon today. Closed for Christmas. Open Wednesday. Good fishing on the river. Not much for population out there. More as the week progresses. 8-5 daily. Big Craig…
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Winter Solstice, Cold Moon, and Meteor Shower
Winter Solstice, Cold Moon, and Meteor Shower Friday 21 December. The shortest day of the year. We are crossing the line as we publish this daily blog. Friday Foto Summer Solstice Love! This is an image used as the banner…
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#TBT Wolf Creek FAS Proposed Improvement Project
Wolf Creek FAS Proposed Improvement Project Ed Note: Lots of conversation about the updated, paved, striped Wolf Creek Boat Ramp since completion late October. The WC FAS has been changed, to exactly the proposal below. It is identical to the…
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Upper Missouri River Management Plan Scoping Meeting Tonight in Helena
Upper Missouri River Management Plan Scoping Meeting Tonight in Helena Meeting tonight at Montana Wild in Helena at 6:30 pm. Your voice determines the future of our Cold Water fishery. This is the pan for the 3 reservoirs above Holter…
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A Headhunters Fly Shop Gift Card solves many problems
A Headhunters Fly Shop Gift Card solves many problems Get this slender item in any dollar amount you choose. Get one for all your employees, your cousin, your husband or wife. Or you. It’s like money in the bank. Call…
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Book your 2019 Missouri River Lodging and Guides
Book your 2019 Missouri River Lodging and Guides Listening to the phone ring, the staff chat with guests about 2019 lodging and Guide Trips, along with the constant email correspondence leads me to this blog today. It is time to…
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Office Xmas Party Sunday – Closed in the Afternoon
Headhunters will be celebrating the Holidays with our staff tomorrow afternoon, Sunday Dec. 16, at our annual Office Party in an undisclosed location. We will be open in the morning until around 12 noon, so if you need a shuttle…
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Weekend Update: Swing Report
Fishing reports vary from good to great right now. Remember, it’s all relative in December. To most, a pleasant winter day on the river that brings 6-10 nice fish to the net is “great”. To others that’s just “good”. Either…
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Spey Special Ends Soon
Lots of folks have taken advantage of our fall Spey Special this year. $400 for a full day guided trip with excellent and experienced Spey Casting instructors and guides like women’s World Speycasting Champ Whitney Gould. If you don’t have…
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Mid-Winter Forecast. Will you Fish?
Will you do some fly fishing this winter? In Montana? Most of the best winter fishing venues in Montana are solid each and every year. The upper Madison, Bighorn and Missouri are likely the most popular, but there are plenty…
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Popular Flies Back in Stock
Ninch is keeping those bins full, and many of our best selling (and fishing) patterns that have been tough to find for awhile are now “In Stock”. All of these patterns will be “Out of Stock” again at some point,…
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FWP Wants Your Opinion – Upper Missouri Reservoir Plan
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks is requesting comments that will help them define the future of Fisheries management for the Upper Missouri River Reservoirs as well as the Missouri River from Toston to Holter Dam. 20 years ago, it’s unlikely…
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Saturday Scenery – Where Would You Like to Be?
Throwback to our buddy Jon Yousko trying to entice some Tarpon West of Key West. Why not go somewhere warm this month? Comment below if you have any suggestions for Headhunters Nation. A great guide, best apres’ fishing spot, easiest…
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Things Squeeky learned about teaching fly fishing this year
Things Squeeky learned about teaching fly fishing this year I was fishing with an individual who was an upper level angler. An upper level angler in my boat is a feller, or gal, that fishes a bunch. For me that…
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Missouri River December Fishing Report
Missouri River December Fishing Report Cold this coming week. Maybe for a couple weeks. Historically the slowest time of the year on the Mo is this month. Save for the Christmas shoppers there is not too much movement in downtown…
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December Water Projection
December Water Projection Here it is. Normal so far. The word on the street is we will have a warmer than normal winter. We will have a dryer than normal winter. But that is only conjecture, a projection. Enjoy the…
Read More Firebead Ray Fly Tying Video
Firebead Ray Just Add Vise Tying Kit Tie this one up for winter water. If this is not in your box for the winter and spring fishing here on the Mo, you must not fish here often! The coming out…
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Monday is for Smoking
Monday is for Smoking We have written nearly 5000 blog entries in the last 11 years. We are 13 short of that number. After this post, we are 1 closer. That is a quite a few. The reason I mention…
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A couple Christmas ideas
A couple Christmas ideas Flies are always a good idea for the angler in the family. Call the shop and we can get a box put together for your loved ones. This is a common thing for us here at…
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December 1st. Snow.
December 1st. Snow. A passing storm dropped a couple inches on us here in Craig. Slow angling traffic. Just right. Beyond booking, sending Christmas gift items, talking to you folks on the phone about hatch timing, and lots of Trout…
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Weekend Trout Spey Report
Weekend Trout Spey Report Shane and Mark stepped into the river yesterday afternoon for a couple hours of swing. Pretty good. Fished a couple different runs with fish kissing the fly in both. The first run either both anglers were…
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Late November Missouri River Fishing Report
Late November Missouri River Fishing Report Water temps falling while the air temps are holding for the week. Or sort of falling. The river is pretty quiet. A few guide trips out this week. Remember that we have Trout Spey…
Read More Cyber Monday Mental Break
Cyber Monday Mental Break If you gotta shop might as well shop with us. Your favorite fly shop in central Montana. If you need and yearn for a mental break check out the 2 summer inspired throwback skate music vids.…
Read More Fly Shop Strong Small Biz Saturday!
Fly Shop Strong Small Biz Saturday! Shop at your favorite local small businesses today. And tomorrow. I do some speaking in a few communities every off season. I often hear complaints from the guests that there is not a local…
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Turkey Day Spey Report
We’ve got some great fishing weather in the forecast for the next couple of weeks, and Trout Spey anglers will find the fish are pretty receptive to the swung fly. Pressure has been light lately, as most Montanan’s are out…
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Headhunters is the Most Open Fly Shop in the World?
Headhunters is the Most Open Fly Shop in the World? I think other than LL Bean, which is open 24/7 365, Headhunters is the second most open fly shop in the world. But is Bean really a fly shop? It…
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Top Missouri River November Nymphs
Top Missouri River November Nymphs Nymphing pretty well out there. Mostly up at the dam and then on down to Craig. Although fishing well below Craig too. Water temps still holding above 40F. We have a couple more weeks of…
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Craig Montana November 17th
Craig Montana November 16th Yesterday morning in Craig. Today sunny. Cold. Tomorrow? Totally fishable. Lots of swingers on the river the past couple weeks. Headhunters Trout Spey trips out too. The week ahead looks good. Not too cold, not too…
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Fly Shop Small
Fly Shop Small Hello out there. Snowing hard here in central Montana. But it’s only blowing about 31mph so far. We often make suggestions about fly fishing here on this transparent blog, fishing report, and entertainment site. Lots and lots…
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Trout Spey Flies
Trout Spey Flies Squeeky’s Trout Spey Fly selection has grown over the years. The more flies you have, the more fish you can catch. Right? But can a feller really have too many flies? No, is the answer if you…
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November 13th Missouri River Fishing Report
November 13th Missouri River Fishing Report Winter rules out there. Play by them and you will not freeze your ass off along with catching more fish. Early starts for those tossing the streamer. The fish can be pretty active in…
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$400 Guided Spey Trips
$400 Guided Spey Trips Booked a couple more Trout Spey trips today at the shop. Sunday and snow. Swingers too. Many of the folks who we have had the fortunate opportunity to fish with this fall have forgone the Steelhead…
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Veterans Day 2018 We at Headhunters honor all that have served. Thank you. We support the Americans who serve.
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Friday Foto Dead Sunflowers
Friday Foto Dead Sunflowers Foreshadowing? No. Most everything is dead. Snow forecast for tomorrow, for the weekend. Fishing pretty good today. Good nymphing and good swinging. Did see a few fish rising too. If you can stand the weather, we’ll…
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November 8th Missouri River Fishing Report
November 8th Missouri River Fishing Report Water flows and temps are just right for active fish. The water level has come up a bit in the past couple weeks with the weeds on the downturn. Some days a few in…
Read More Long Time Gone LIVE CSNY
Long Time Gone LIVE CSNY This is how I am feeling this snowy Wednesday morning in Craig. Guides out today at HH including me. High temp today will top out at 21F. The good news is the and is coming…
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New Breed Chicks Rule Alison Edition
New Breed Chicks Rule Alison Edition Alison with this nice rainbow from the river yesterday. She and her beau Matt were supposed to be steel heading but thought that the conditions were not right so they headed out to the…
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Trout Spey Report 11.5.18
Break out the two-handers, November has arrived. Cooler – but not cold – temperatures over the last week have improved the swing bite, and that cold air we need is in the forecast for later this week. Trout Spey fishing…
Read More Montana Spey Video Scumliner Media
Montana Spey Video Scumliner Media A cool vid this morning from Scumliner Media. Spey Specials on the Mo. It’s time for you to play with a two hander.
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Silly Saturday Scenery
Silly Saturday Scenery November 3rd. Falling back 1 hour tonight. Lighter earlier. Darker earlier. Several guide trips out today, yesterday too. Remember our Spey Especial for your fall Trout Spey experience. $400 Spey Trips on the Mo with John or…
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November Missouri River Fishing Forecast
November Missouri River Fishing Forecast October has slipped away from us here in central Montana and left us with November. Commonly called Movember here in the canyon we welcome the change. Why? Well the last month was not all that…
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