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Trips - Work and play sometimes allows for fly fishing on some very nice water. We try to document them as best we can - and not just the big fish.

Flint Creek / Rock Creek, Missoula, MT, August 2003 - Another work trip and fortunate enough to get an evening away fly fishing on Flint Creek with two friends from the Missoula office, followed by a solo outing the next morning on Rock Creek. Temperatures were in the triple digits during the day. No fishing in the heat. Water temps would approach mid-70s. Catch and release would not work as the oxygen levels drop with the rise in water temps. Still managed to coax a few brown trout and rainbows to the top of the water column. If you have an outing you'd like to write a report on, please check out the Forums & Reports section.

Pine Creek, Alberta,  July 2003 - After a long week of "real work" for my employer, I finally had the opportunity to get out for a long afternoon of Alberta fly fishing. With two friends - Leon and George - from the Edmonton office, we headed about 240 kilometers northwest of Edmonton to Pine Creek outside of Whitecourt. A small tributary of the Athabasca River, its tea colored water held some nice grayling, a few wary bull trout and at least one truly native Alberta trout - an Athabasca rainbow trout.

Bighorn River, May 2002 - A two day spring fly fishing trip in late April to the Bighorn River in Montana. Fishing was a little tougher than the previous year but still productive. The plus side this year was drifting in a great boat by NordWest in Billings. Check the Gear section for more info on this and other drift boats.

Stillwater,  May 2002 - A one-day side trip to the Stillwater River in Montana in late April. The ice was barely off the river. Despite the rain, gusty winds and ice dams, guide Bryan Knaub from Old West Angler & Outfitters knows the river up and down and put us into a number of good spots.

Sauk River, February 2002  - At least the scenery was beautiful. All the conditions looked good. River gauges that had been showing high flows finally dropped. Steelhead should have been moving into the Sauk from the Skagit. The weather was just right, but no solid hook-ups and only one or two cursory strikes for friend Kevin and I during a long day.

Bighorn River, May 2001 - A three day fly fishing trip on the 'Horn. Even with a pretty tank of a wooden drift boat, it was 3 days of some the best fishing in a long time. Beautiful fish were caught both sub-surface and on dries. 

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