Fall Fishing in Southwest Montana

The next three Photos are of fish I caught on the Madison down stream of $3 Bridge on Veteran's Day 11/11/2009. I was getting them on an egg and BH micro may. Saw very few BWOs, but a lot of midges that day. Winter has arrived. The next day we got well over a foot of snow in Bozeman.

Here is probably a Brown out of Hebgen Lake on the Madison at Bakers Hole. This was the only one I landed. I hooked like 4 more, they were all very hot fish out of Hebgen. I was only able to fish about an hour since Devun came down with the Flu with a high temp. We just had to turn around and head back to Bozeman bummer. It was the last day of fishing in the Park. Hard to leave a hole full of fish, the things we do for our kids, it would have probably been considered child abuse letting him suffer while I caught fish.

Photo: Devun Scott

Fall brown on the Gallatin one morning with Devun throwin streamers.

Photo:Devun Scott

High water no problem

After doing a few errands around town I decided to hop in the car with my dog and drive up to the upper Madison ($3 bridge). High water, off color= good fishing! Hooked many on the coffee and black rubber legs and a few on a bead head dropper. Fish where in predictable places, being in any slack water you could find. Pretty much right on the banks. It was a nice day to get out and there was not too many people as well. Drove back by Hebgen Lake and stripped a bugger off the bank and caught this nice dark bow.

With above average temps around Bozeman, I took a break from the slopes and hit up the Lower Madison for some fishing. It was mostly a midge day, nothing on dries, but did good on a juju midge I fished for the first time. Lots of slush in the morning but thawed out by afternoon. Here is the first fish on 2009.