When people decide to put roots down in the Northern Rockies, whether it’s in the ski towns of Big Sky, Montana, Jackson Hole, Wyoming, or Sun Valley, Idaho, or a fly-fishing or lakeside retreat on a waterfront setting, typically the allure of both nature and...
Sponsored Content The trend in luxury home design of embracing an indoor/outdoor lifestyle is definitely on the rise, but the concept of joining a building to its natural surroundings is nothing new. Frank Lloyd Wright embraced the idea that living space should expand outdoors as a...
What happens upstream affects what lies downstream, right? The contiguous U.S. encompasses more than 3 million miles of running water, and more than half of that is made up of headwater streams, defined as the start of a river, usually created by snowmelt, rain, and springs...
The Montana Brewshed Alliance is a coalition of conservation-minded breweries across Montana that are dedicated to help raise their business profiles, along with attention to coldwater conservation and the simple fact that great beer and trout both depend on keeping our water clean. The Brewshed...
In the late winter and spring, outdoor enthusiasts often have to make a difficult choice: ski or fish? If you’ve had your powder fix for the season, the next few months can be a good time to find solitude and plenty of walk-wade fishing opportunities...
As any experienced angler knows, fly fishing isn’t the kind of sport you just launch right into. Tippet, leader, line, knots, flies, casting techniques, and nymph or dry-fly rigging — the list of things to learn goes on and on. And most will admit that,...
Die-hard fly anglers don’t let the weather hold them back: They gear up and go, rain, sleet, or snow. But most have a well-worn, stay-warm routine. According to Wade Fellin, a fishing guide and manager of the Big Hole Lodge in Wise River, Montana, “It...
I’m not going to pretend I’m an experienced angler. Just one look at me on the bank of a river, struggling with a fish or taking an enormous amount of time to tie on a fly or untangle my line, and I’m instantly exposed for...
In search of solitude The first time someone mentioned a packraft to me was about three years ago. “A pack what?” I said. Which is the response most fly fishers probably would have. I knew about drift boats, pontoons, canoes, and paddle boards, but I’d never...
Fly fishing through Montana’s Bannack State Park My first cast into Grasshopper Creek was by the Bannack, Montana, jail. Beyond these dank and constricted pens stood the gallows where Sheriff Henry Plummer and his road-agent deputies, “The Innocents,” were hanged in 1864. “Give me a good...