I'm also from Colorado. Last year ( 2022 ) I spent most of my Summer fishing the Madison. I camped up there in a trailer. It was my 30th year fishing that river, so I'm well familiar with the stretches of river in your video. When the river was running high and dirty, fishing was absolutely amazing. In fact, it stayed that way for most of the season. I'm going again on May 1 and will camp there until the end of September.
It sure seemed like the dirty water drove fish into the banks so we were picking em off without having to float the boat half the time. I can’t wait to fish the Madison again! Staying for the summer would be awesome!
You were fishing from your boat in the "wade only" section. You can transit the "Wade only" section with a boat, just not fish from a boat. Learn the laws and rules before you come to my home and plaster it all over the internet.
Don't besmirch white fish. As are canaries to the mine, the white fish are to😅 the river. Whie fish indicate a healthy creek. As Joe Brooks put it, "I'd rather catch 8 white fish and 13 trout than 13 trout."
He did! He’s an amazing guy and someone we fish with every year. Not really an on camera type of guy as much though, so I try not to make him uncomfortable or give him too much exposure. Just tryna be respectful of everyone’s wishes with a camera around. He does get caught in the footage here and there and I used that footage with his permission but again… Not everyone is looking to be exposed to the world on the scale that this video would have done.
where is the best city/town/place to go to in Montana to have a lot of fishing around you? Me and my dad are planning a trip to Montana in April. Where should we go?
Depends on time of year also; early summer definitely Madison valley/Gallatin. Starting late July when NE park area warms up, Gardiner is very good HQ.
@@ParkerOutside I’m new to fly fishing so forgive me if the question is dumb, but why did you decide to go out there with a guide instead of by yourself if you already have the fishing skills?
@@25falcons Not a bad question at all. A guide knows the local fisheries inside and out (what’re they biting on, water quality, where the fish might be in the river at that particular time of year, etc), so when you’re in a new place, having someone with that level of knowledge means you catch more, bigger fish.
Please tell us that your guide didn’t put you up to fishing from a boat on the "wade fishing only" section. The fact that you were the only boat on the river should have been a hint….
All the rivers in that area flooded. The Yellowstone river was the major flooding that made the news but we definitely saw the effects of flooding along the Madison.
