Outlaw Beat sat down at Madison Double R outside Ennis with owner John Sampson, a former Alaska guide who’s been in Montana since 1993.
John co-owned Ruby Springs Lodge for 22 years before he and wife Krista bought this old cattle ranch on the Madison in 2017. We get into all the ways the valley has changed, his time on the Madison River Working Group, why he thinks barbless hooks should be a no-brainer, and why his lodge hosts veterans through Warriors Afield.
Then John goes head-to-head with his son Cole, one of the lodge’s guides, in “Pretty Fly for a White Guide,” where we find out whether the Two Bit Hooker and the Panty Dropper Hopper are real. (They are. Fly fishermen are extremely immature.)
Go check it out: MadisonRR.com
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