by Randy | Dec 28, 2021 | The Snag Hole
So…to answer the question I get a thousand times and day and sometimes in my sleep: “what are they gonna do about the river?” The answer is….NOTHING. There will be a cap on outfitted guide trips effective 2023, which will do zilch regarding...
by Randy | Dec 12, 2021 | The Snag Hole
Forget gold, crypto, IPOs, baseball cards or pork belly futures. You want to make money? Buy a ranch in Montana. The road to prosperity is full of land mines and booby traps…but owning a ranch in Montana is pretty much a sure thing. Since my time in the Madison...
by Randy | Dec 8, 2021 | The Snag Hole
Meetings, meetings, meetings…and more meetings. My head hurts. The river must be chuckling. The “regulate the river” crowd just can’t get it together. Money, politics, greed, fear, personal agenda, landowner rights, landowner wrongs, more,...
by Randy | Dec 4, 2021 | The Snag Hole
Brown trout (salmo trutta) are non-native species to Montana. They are native to Scotland and Germany. The first brown trout in the state were introduced to the Madison River in 1889. A typical female brown trout produces about 2,000 eggs per kilogram (900 eggs...
by Randy | Dec 3, 2021 | The Snag Hole
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