I had been dying to fish the Stillwater River for one simple reason: the guides don’t typically go there. And consequently, it’s a lightly fished river:
- it’s just about equidistant between Bozeman and Billings; about 2 hours from each. So the guides don’t go there.
- it’s a freestone, so it’s subject to getting blown out, high and low water conditions. So, when it fishes well; it fishes really well
- it is a river full of rapids which also scares away all the guides except for the ones that are the best on the oars. People drown on this river.
I had this trip inked for almost 9 months. And it was a chance to fish again with my buddy Mike Hillygus who owns the Stillwater Outpost and is quite the guide, outfitter, and fly fisherman himself. And the really best part of it was that my 20-year-old son Mark was going to join me.
We invite you to read the rest of this post at fly-fishing-blog.timhuckaby.com/stillwater-river-montana-may-3-7-2016/
