Be ready for the season By Patrick Straub EBS Fishing Columnist As the snow flies, many anglers long for warmer days, wet wading and sunscreen. For...
By Patrick Straub EBS Fishing Columnist “The tug is the drug.” “Streamer addict.” “Streamer junkie.” “Strip it and rip it.” Sounding more like lines spoken by...
By Patrick Straub EBS Fishing Columnist When divvying out our local trout species, the trout gods smiled upon our corner of the fly-fishing universe. Europe received...
By Patrick Straub EBS Fishing Columnist A longtime Yellowstone River guide once admitted to me his disdain for the salmonfly hatch. “It’s so anticlimactic, overblown, and...
By Patrick Straub EBS Fishing Columnist The phone call came late at night. An aspiring fishing guide was looking to get on the Upper Madison and needed...
By Patrick Straub EBS Fishing Columnist The transition from spring to summer in mountain country is defined by change: The snow line creeps up, rivers are...
By Patrick Straub Explore Big Sky Fishing Columnist I must have been suffering from idealistic optimism when I wrote my previous column, because it referred to...
Fly fishing on a budget? You betcha! By Patrick Straub Explore Big Sky Fishing Columnist A young guide came to me the other day and asked,...
Great fishing surrounds us – know where to go By Patrick Straub Explore Big Sky Fishing Columnist It’s officially spring. That means daylight savings time, NCAA...
By Patrick Straub Explore Big Sky Fishing Columnist I was riding the chairlift in early February when the gentleman next to me asked: “Six [inches] of...