Hi everyone.  It was a busy summer as usual and things are starting to wind down which is nice.  Fall is in the air and usually means a nice transition into some great fly fishing in the waters of southwest Montana.  I finally got to go out and try my jet boat out on the Missouri yesterday in the place they call "Land of the Giants".  It worked great.  A couple of tweaks and additions to the boat are needed to make it more Fly Fishing friendly which is going to be a great off season project.  As far as our fishing over there on the Missouri, well we caught some really big fish.  It is crazy the size of these guys.  My friend Alex took some photos that I will hopefully be posting soon.
    So as far as booking trips for this unique Fly Fishing experience, well we are just going to have to wait for my captains license which will hopefully be done by the middle of November.  The times that I am going to try get people out there are going to be right after Ski Season ends (april 15ish) through May.
    I will keep y'all posted on the situation and I cant wait to start a new gig.  Hope to see you out on the river soon!

Spring Runoff Fly Fishing

  I love reading other shops fishing reports and seeing them write that a river is unfishable.  The slightly muddy water is some of the best fishing you will get all year.  I am not talking about when the river is roaring at flood stage, but when its still real high and looks like it has about 6 inches of vis and has that muddy green color to it, it doesn't even have to be that green.  So during these conditions the fish are starving and concentrated all in the same place, (the banks and the slow water)  and there are lots of big fish.
  Yesterday I was itching to fly fish after being on a long but wonderful vacation.  While I was driving home through the Gallatin River canyon back to Big Sky I was thinking to myself "its muddy but I bet it will fish".  So I geared up and went out for a quick late afternoon fish.  What do you know the unfishable water was on fire.  Almost every cast rewarded me with healthy hot Rainbow Trout .  Its pretty simple fishing the high water if you just keep it simple with a short leader not much weight and heavy tippet.  The casts only needs to be a few feet past the end of your rod and the main meal are stone fly nymphs.  Pretty easy.
  So here I am back in Big Sky ,very happily married to my Beautiful wife after an awesome trip to Mexico and New York.  I am ready to check out the Upper Madison to see whats going on over there as well as the tributaries feeding Hebgen Lake which this time of year are just loaded with huge spawning lakers.  I hope to see y'all soon and I will post some photos after I hit up some more water.  Things are looking good for the summer I can't wait to put y'all on some.

Sean Efferson

  Another ski season done and a new Fly Fishing season is right around the corner.  Once again the lifts are closed and the snow still flies, and its cold.  During the spring here in the mountains you have to take advantage of the couple hours of sun you may get each day and just get out there, not to say that there are nice days between the crappy ones.  In a couple of weeks my Love and I will be getting married in the wonderful Mayan Rivera of Mexico!  I can not wait!  We will the pastiest gringos they have ever seen.
  So lets talk some fishing.  The snowpack looks great this year, all of our drainages are at 97% or higher, so we should have plenty of water to get us through the season without getting completely washed out for the month of June.  We are about to have a real nice window of spring fishing before the runoff starts.  I had a chance to fish the Missouri this last weekend between Holter lake and Hauser dam.  Holy smokes!  My good friend Brad Hansel picked me up in his jet boat and drove us away from the crowds and put us in a riffle which gave us Huge rainbow with almost every cast.  I stayed up last night looking at jet boats on ebay, I am screwed.
  When it has not been freezing cold I have been out to the Gallatin and the Lower Madison which both fished excellent.  Hopefully we will be able to catch the magic of the Mothers day caddis this year, its been forever since I have been in town for that one.
  Anyway I look forward to guiding this summer and cant wait to see you all.

Take car and tight lines,
Sean