Ten Reasons Fort Smith’s Water Tower is superior to Seattle’s Space Needle
Visitors to Fort Smith, Montana are often struck with the beauty of our Water Tower, and anyone can see that it bears a striking resemblance to the Space Needle in Seattle. While the resemblance is uncanny (see pic), we wouldn’t trade our Tower for the Space Needle and here’s why: Ten Reasons Fort Smith’s Water… Read more
Finding the Outdoor Career that Suits You
For those of you who are looking for a career in the great outdoors, there are many positions available. Many of them are challenging, fun, and rewarding. Others are not. Some require an extensive knowledge of fish or game animals, woodsmanship, navigation, or even survival skills. For others, well, you just have to be willing… Read more
Late Summer Fishing Update
This has been an interesting year on the Bighorn River. I know every year is different and therefore interesting, but there really have been a few unique aspects to this season. To begin, we were confronted with one of the highest snowpacks on record. Billings set a snowfall record and our drainage flirted with 175%… Read more
Bighorn River Update 8/8/2014
Water flows are low, or maybe I should say normal for this time of year. The black caddis hatch has been the main event for over a month now, but we’ve seen the peak and insect numbers are slowly decreasing. We expect the caddis to continue to provide good dry fly fishing in the afternoon… Read more
Bighorn River Update: 7/17/2014
So let’s review what has happened with the Bighorn River water flows this year: Since it was a huge snowpack year, one of the highest on record, the Bureau of Reclamation released a lot of water in April. That was unusual, since they usually don’t bump the flows until late May or early June. But… Read more