Bighorn River: Dry fly fishing is the best we have seen thus far this summer with significant hatches of black caddis as well as lots of terrestrials. The best dry fly fishing has been from 2-4 p ...

Dennis Anderson/Star TribuneA brown trout from the Bighorn River in Montana often is trophy-sized. Though big, the trout often are caught on very small flies, sometimes size 20, in the 13 miles of ...

FLY FISHING — Thanks to a year’s worth of rain in May and loads of snowpack remaining in the mountains, flows will be high and steady through the end of July on the Bighorn River in Montana ...

Fly fishing is a year-round pursuit. ... The tailwater portion of the renowned Bighorn River begins near the town of Fort Smith, Montana—one of the few remaining true trout towns in the country.

PHIL GONZALES lucked into his first fishing rod. He grew up near a big bend in the Yellowstone River in Huntley, Montana, about 15 miles east of Billings. To keep the river from washing over its banks ...