Montana is filled with a lot of "self-taught pros" when it comes to fly fishing, but with the long holiday weekend, MTN thought it would be a good public service to actually talk to the experts to ...

CRAIG – The fly line traced the edge of the water as Whitney Gould found the precise angle, hitting her anchor point and ripping a two-handed cast across the Missouri River in a cloud of mist.

At age 7, using a fly he’d tied himself, Flechsig caught his first fish on a fly rod, fishing on Missouri’s Big River with his uncle. A year later, his father bought a bass boat, and nearly ...

Then, to the north, you have the Fall River and the famed McCloud River, which has steep banks and a lot of brush to get hung up on—and some of the best rainbow trout fishing in the Lower 48.