by Randy | Dec 5, 2023 | The Snag Hole
Slabs of prime Montana Whitetail buck deer hair. As good as it gets. Long and straight for spinning, stacking, flaring, clipping. Perfect for X Caddis, Z Caddis, Hedgehogs, Stimmys, Bullet Heads, Dave’s Hopper, Bunnys, Divers, Bass Bugs. Harvesting the full hide...
by Randy | Oct 23, 2023 | The Snag Hole
Brett French Butte Montana Standard Altering fishing regulations for southwest Montana rivers as trout populations crash seems perilous, two members of the Montana Fish and Wildlife Commission said Thursday. “It just strikes me as wrong to be testing methods of take...
by Randy | Oct 1, 2023 | River Reports
Headed to the still water with Terry and Andy. The boys hooked 25 fish using scud home-ties and blood midges. The weather held nicely for us and the wind stayed down…all in all a fine day of fishing! October Update:
by Randy | Sep 18, 2023 | The Snag Hole
In August/Sept. we get heavy callibaetis hatches around here. These large, stillwater mayflies hatch out of shoreline cattails and weedy growth and spread their gray speckled wings learning to fly. The big trout love them…gobbling the nymphs…slurping the...
by Randy | Sep 13, 2023 | The Snag Hole
‘The longevity of mischief.’ Jimmy Buffett looks at 50 years after his first Key West gig BY HOWARD COHEN A profane phone call and Jimmy Buffett’s inability to keep his daily planner organized 50 years ago in Miami set in motion events that changed the music world....
by Randy | Aug 31, 2023 | River Reports
A beauty of a brown trout for Leslie from the middle of Cameron Flats.
by Randy | Aug 30, 2023 | The Snag Hole
Bob Dylan would not be amused. This is where we are. It’s ugly. it’s hateful and it’s stupid. It took a while, but Montana is there…not the last best place…but a bad place…a really bad place. Sad. Sorry. Painful. Big Hole...
by Randy | Jul 22, 2023 | River Reports
Fishing was delicious!
by Randy | Jul 17, 2023 | The Snag Hole
So the New York Times has ditched its’ sports department. Over, adios, kaput. You want to read sports? Click on The Athletic (behind the paywall). But don’t bother leafing through The Times. You won’t even find the Yankees’ scores there. Who...
by Randy | Jul 9, 2023 | The Snag Hole
Camping and birding at one of our favorite spots on earth…Red Rock Lakes National Wildlife Refuge in the Centennial Valley, near the Continental Divide on the Montana-Idaho border. This year, the Centennial is lush, green and full of wildflowers with both the...
