Montana Fly Fishing Trips

Classic Western Montana fly fishing is sight casting dry flies to rising trout on a river float trip, usually from a McKenzie style drift boat or inflatable raft, depending on the river being fished. This is the enjoyable type of fly fishing trip you will have the opportunity to experience here at our lodge. We also offer overnight river fly fishing float trips through licensed Montana Outfitters. On top of that, you can experience some of Montana’s finest wade fishing right out the back door fly fishing Rock Creek, a legendary blue ribbon trout stream.

Montana Fly Fishing Trout Species

Appropriately, all of our Montana fly fishing waters contain only wild fish. You will fish for native Westslope Cutthroat as well as wild Rainbow Trout, Brown Trout, and in some of the smaller streams, Brook Trout that were introduced generations ago. (Native Bull Trout are protected and are not targeted but are sometimes incidentally caught.)

Six species of salmonids thrive in our western Montana trout streams. Of these, 4 are called trout; rainbow trout, brown trout, cutthroat trout, and brook trout, although the brook trout, like the bull trout, is actually a char. Of these “trout”, only the westslope cutthroat is a native trout. All rainbow, brown and brook trout in our rivers and streams are wild, since no stocking of moving water has been permitted for over 3 decades, but they were originally introduced. The other two salmonids are both native. The bull trout is the inland brother of the Dolly Varden, and the other native is the mountain white fish.