SIMMS 2014
Check out a few of the items coming this winter. We are excited for the new products… Check out the video and make your 2014 wish list. And when you are in Craig fishing the Missouri River, make sure to…
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Peter Skidmore explains Winter Guide Occupation Alternatives
Today’s Blog from one of our top notch Missouri River Headhunters guides Peter Skidmore. Peter sent this blog in from fantasyland. Cascade Montana. If I were on death row receiving my last meal it would be a Chicago Style…
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Deep into Fly Line Selection | A Headhunters Passion
I was fishing Montana’s Missouri River this last month with Luca Troiani of Sweetgrass Rods. He of course had a full quiver of Sweetgrass Bamboo Rods. You know the shop. The bamboo craftsmen, Jerry Kustich & Glenn Bracket were once…
Read More Sunday Surf Films | Dicky Dale & Chantays Edition
Check out the classic Misirlou video. Love it. It makes me warm just watching the crowd dance his fret work The Chantay’s Pipeline. Another true Surf Classic!
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Silly Sunday Scenery | Summer Love
Ahh, summer dry fly days. Posted up on rising trout. No rush. They are feeding. No rush here this winter either. The fish are trapped in the river. The water temps are currently in the 35F range. Pretty cold. Silly…
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New Breed Chicks Rule | Eastern WA Edition
A couple guests of ours sent this pic to us fro New Breed Chicks Rule. Not their first time on this blog and certainly not their last wither. Nancy Goodloe holding the trout with Melody in the background. I think…
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Missouri River Big Trout
We got some big ones. This fish caught by Jim Murray on the Mighty Mo. Missouri River Big Trout come to those who fish here. Can you target large fish? Yep. But they mostly come when you are not expecting…
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Friday Foto | Winter Seat
You may remember this image in the summer. It was warmer. Much warmer. Planning for your summer, your Missouri River summer of 2014? It is not too early. In fact, the lodging and guiding choices in June, July, and August…
Read More Do it All Fly Lines
Do It All Fly Lines? Rio Indicator Line v. Rio Perception In early October, John Arnold wrote a great Headhunters blog on fly lines for the fall. John called some of them “Floating Do-It-All Lines” and that really caught my…
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Headhunters Gift Card | Take the EZ Way Out!
Why choose gifts under all the pressure of the holidays? Just get yourself and all of your friends a Headhunters Gift Card. Headhunters Gift Card | A Smart Choice Don’t know what you want for Christmas? We do. A Headhunters…
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Abel Classic Skull and Crossbone
Abel Classic Skull and Crossbone Reels at Headhunters Fly Shop now. A perfect gift for yourself this holiday season Abel Classic Skull and Crossbone The Abel Classic brings back the traditional look and feel of an ultra-lightweight Spey reel, but…
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Kids Fly Tying
Kids Fly Tying and Kids FLy Fishing is important for the future of our sport. Get your own kid, the neighbor kid, or any youth groups you are involved in excited about the outdoors, or the indoors tying flies. Take…
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The Fiberglass Manifesto 12 Days of Christmas
The geniuses over at The Fiberglass Manifesto are engaged in their annual 12 Days of Christmas. Starting yesterday. You are one day behind, sorry. The genius being Cameron Mortenson who has single handedly brought the fiberglass rod business out of…
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Female Friendly @ Headhunters Fly Shop
Female Friendly today on Headhunters Fly Shop Blog. Sara dons the pages of Fly Fisherman this month with another killer read from Headhunters Alumni Jess McGlothlin. Lots of play this last year from Jess. Editors have fallen in love with…
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Diablo Kayaks SALE
Headhunters Fly Shop Diablo Demo Kayaks are on SALE! We have a couple of these very popular and user friendly Diablo Kayaks ready to go from our door to yours this holiday season. You see the kayak gang sometimes as…
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Essentials for Deep Winter Fly Fishing
Essentials for Deep Winter Fly Fishing A couple weeks ago as I walked out my door for another late fall/early winter day of guiding, I realized that it was not fall at all! It definitely winter! The tides had changed.…
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Silly Sunday Scenery
Still miserably cold here on Montana’s Missouri River. Still beautiful though. Love looking at the scenery through the comfort of the windshield. With the heat blasting. The truck does not want to start during this deep freeze. At all. Silly…
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New Breed Chicks Rule | Early Winter Edition
Sydney Resel today on New Breed Chicks Rule. Sydney does rule! New Breed Chicks Rule! Where is your New Breed Chick? Send her to us for Blog Fame…mark@headhuntersflyshop.com subject line NEW BREED Saturday afternoon shop closed until…
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Friday Foto | Cold
We are cold too. The river temps dipped to 37F this past 4 days. It should stay in that range for months. The water flows are up to 4120cfs and…? You? Work on those fly boxes for the coming week.…
Read More Thursday Lowdown | Boz Scaggs
Damn cold still. Will remain that way for the week, and maybe the coming week as well. Snow on the ground, the roads are vacant. Thursday Lowdown | Headhunters Style Craig is vacant. When it gets this chilly…Montanans stay indoors.…
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Size Matters | Bob Glassen
We do a lot of mending here on the Mo’. The flows are moderate to slow – not the fast, tumbling water you’d see in free stone streams. Most of these trout have seen it all and dragreally turns them…
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Streamer Fly Lines for Winter Fun
We got the Streamer Fly Lines for your winter excursions here on Montana’s Missouri River. Headhunters Fly Shop is flush with them. We never stop thinking, or dreaming, about trout fishing. The Missouri River is a 12 month game, and…
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Missouri River Trout Numbers Good
Check out the original FWP Article here… Look at the Helena IR article from this spring here Independent Record Eve Byron Missouri River Trout Numbers Good HELENA (AP) — Chances are, if you had a “trout on” while fishing on the…
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Headhunters Spey Clinic | Saturday Spey Clinic Cancelled
The damn cold weather got us…we are pulling the plug on the Saturday Headhunters Spey Clinic. We’ll move this Saturdays Headhunters Spey Clinic to the following Saturday the 14th, weather permitting. Same fun, same class, different day. We still have…
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Fishpond Nomad Net @ Headhunters Fly Shop
A really cool product from Fishpond. The Nomad Series nets qualify for one of the cooler intro’s this winter. Carbon fiber and glass with a super ghost net will make this one of the items you want adorning your drifter…
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Chasing Waters: In the Rings | IF4 Selection
Our friends @ Adipose Boatworks has a good showing in this film… It’s cold and windy here in central Montana. Enjoy this break form your reality today. “Chasing Waters: In the Rings” (Trailer) – Official Selection, IF4 2014 from…
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Cyber Monday Fishing Report
The fish do not seem to respond to the same sort of stimuli as we do… I’m pretty sure they are not aware of the super deals online today. Quiet here on the river today. Will be for the week…
Read More Headhunters Sunday Surf Flick | Big Wednesday
Headhunters Sunday Surf Flick on this Holiday Thanksgiving weekend. Football, naps, and senseless laptop retail fun. Fishing has been damn good this last week and this weekend. Enjoy this trailer of Big Wednesday. It’s Scumliner’s favorite surf movie. Buy it…
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Cyber Monday Fly Boxes
Team Headhunters Fly Boxes. Need something for a stocking stuffer? How about these dandy slimline HH Logo Fly Boxes! A Headhunters Gift Card fits nicely into an envelope to send your _______. Check out our smashing deals with our Black…
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Small Business Saturday | Headhunters Fly Shop
Yah, we’re small. But we’re tough. Small Business Saturday created by the credit card company American Express is a great way for big business to care… Or something like that. Marketing 101, I think. We would appreciate that you bite…
Read More Headhunters Fly-Fishing-Fun Gift Card
A Headhunters Fly Shop & Guide Service Gift Card. Think if it as your pre-paid fun pass for the Missouri River. Get it for $100 and gift your secretary. Get it for $200 for your kids. Haul off and drop…
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Black Friday @ Headhunters Fly Shop
Black Friday Deals and Specials and Sale Items… Black Friday to Small Business Saturday on to Superfly Sunday and finally Cyber-Monday. We’ll be busy here all weekend long answering your phone orders, filling web orders, selling in store and living…
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We all give thanks…
Thanks to you the loyal fishy friends. To all the folks that read this daily blog, that fish the Mo, and that enjoy the Headhunters Life. Thanks to you. Enjoy your day, the weekend too. Stop in if you are…
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Holidays Fishing Report | Damn Good
It is really quite good. Good weather, good streamer bite, fantastic nymph angling…all good my fishy friends. Water temps in the low 40’s with low flows and fish gobbling the streamer. White, yellow, flashy are all on fire. On fire.…
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Missouri River Winter Flies | Headhunters Fly Shop
Monday morning here in Craig Montana. We are settling in. Totally settling in. The pace has slowed from the slow pace last week. Now, it is truly weather dependent for the anglers daily arrival. Purely locals and some regional folks…
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Missouri River Turkey Week Fishing Report
Missouri River Turkey Week Fishing Report is real, real good. Whether it be roasted, BBQ’d, deep-fried, or smoked you won’t be the turkey this week fishing the Missouri River. Warm and unseasonal weather this last weekend and for the foreseeable…
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A Kinetic Loop | Simon Perkins
Check it out. A Kinetic Loop…it’s cool and we can’t wait to see the feature length version. Simon Perkins of Sharptail Media with this new film teaser. Simon shot and produced the Sipping Dry Film we all love. A Kinetic…
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New Boat Smell | November Style
Brian Cheyney today with New Boat Smell. We asked Brian what he liked most about his new Adipose Flow Skiff. His response? “It rows better than any other drift boat.” That’s about all you need to know. Ease of rowing…
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Old Anlgers Never Die…a blog by Terry Armstrong
Headhunters and Missouri River friend Terry Armstrong today with this blog he sent to us via electronic mail. We’ve known Terry for a number of years and some of you have met him at our Saturday BBQ’s, out swinging a…
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Missouri River Broken Rod
I wonder if the rod companies get lots of letters like this. I mean from the Missouri River. Our trout are getting arguably larger. No shit. Do you think they have special Missouri River rider? Say no more… Let’s…
Read More World’s Worst Fly Fishing Products
I know I’m gonna get some shit for this post…but I don’t care. If you’re that tight today, lighten up or stop reading now. The world is full of overinflated blogs, reviews, fluffer-type articles praising products that really are not…
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Missouri River Friday Fishing Report 11.22.13
Still here, still fishing, still damn good. Dr. Harvey stopped by again this week from eastern Washington for a winter trout bite. Looks like it was OK. Headhunters Guide Nick Stipech and the gang braved the wind adn did well!…
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Friday Foto | All you need…
Friday Foto has all you need to get through the day. Redbreast and a kick-ass flask from your favorite fly shop? We’ll sell you a flask. We can’t sell you the Redbreast. Although, we may pass you the bottle when…
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Skins & Fins | Ski & Spey
A fun video off of the SAGE Blog today on the Headhunters Fly Shop Blog. Most of the staff here at the shop used to spend the winter months in the ski business. Quite common for fishing folks to be…
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Jake, the Drake, and Headhunters Fly Shop
Headhunters staffer Jake is famous. And carp got him there. You know the guy. A tall glass of water with an oversized smile on his face. Excited. Really excited. Yah, you know him. Former Headhunters All Star Jess McGlothlin writes,…
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Missouri River Montana Fishing Report 11.20.13
The best part of the fishing day is the solace on the river. The Missouri River Montana Fishing Report is good. Pretty damn good. A few boats out daily and that is about it. A few bird hunters too. The…
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Abel Nippers are killer Overpriced Nippers
Abel manufactures the cool shit. We can all agree on that. These Abel Nippers are one of the most popular accessories in fly fishing today. At 60 bucks a whack, these are not your fathers nippers. No, not at all.…
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$400 Missouri River Winter Guide Trips
Yep, it’s true. $400 Missouri River Winter Guide Trips are here for the winter months. Shorter days with lots of fish is what you can expect from late fall and winter fishing trips on the Missouri. The good news is…
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New Breed Chicks Rule | Feels Like Winter Edition
Danielle Raisler today on the Headhunters Blog w/ New Breed Chicks Rule. Feels Like Winter Edition for this Monday morning November 18th. Not as much snow as they predicted this week. Really none at all. Big Rainbows are part of…
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Missouri River Monday Fishing Report 11.18.13
Slower this weekend on the Missouri River. What will a Missouri River Monday bring? Probable slowness. On the river, slowness. Not the fishing part. The people part. Maybe the fishing part too. Til the afternoon., then it will pop! Supposed…
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Silly Sunday Scenery | Snow Job
Silly Sunday Scenery today on the Headhunters Fly Shop Blog. It’s not snowing today. Sunday. Be sure and attend the Missouri River Foundation today 3pm @ the Oasis in Wolf Creek. BWO’s still present. Just be in the right spot…
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A Big One Got Away | Bob Glassen
I was beat. I’d been in the water at first light, hunting heads as the tiny trico duns came off. Even if I didn’t get many, it was worth it just to escape the August heat and be there as…
Read More Turn me loose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Montana.
Merle Haggard today on the Headhunters Blog. Turn me loose, set me free, somewhere in the middle of Montana.
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Flyfishing is bereft of humor
Honest. (Some) Flyfishers are a serious folk. RIP Worst Flyfishing Products Blog. 2 folks, out of a ton of readers could not handle it… Flyfishing is bereft of humor. Trust me. I’m a humorless guide.
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Missouri River Foundation Meeting Nov. 17th
The next meeting of the Missouri River Foundation is at the Oasis Bar in Wolf Creek 3pm. Come and join in the conversation as we create the Mission Statement. You got something to say? Come and join! See you at…
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Missouri River Transitions Fishing Report 11.15.13
Sara said it best on Thursday. Transitions. We are in a transition period that could last a few weeks. Perfectly put Sara. We re indeed in a period of transition, of change, of well, cooling. On all fronts. The fish…
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