Category: Montana

Madison River, MT – Palisades CG – Monday June 10, 2019

Palisades BLM Campground

We are in site 1 same one we have had the last couple of years, third year at Palisades.  BLM added some gravel to the road however they did not put any gravel in the spot that gets soft and muddy.  I talked to the BLM ranger today and he commented on the fact they had added gravel to the road – when I pointed out that was great however they hadn’t put gravel in the worst part of the road, he said yes the engineers kind of blew that one, he is only the ranger.


1 strike
1 on, took off running down the river and got off, using barbless hooks, any slack in the line and there is a good probability the fish is getting off
1 to the net 8 inches

Madison River, MT – Ruby Creek – Saturday June 8, 2019

Friday nights forecast calls for 3-5 inches of snow,

It started snowing at 8:00, we put in the slides and the electrical panel power relay started working so we had electric heat for the evening.

Saturday morning we woke to an inch of snow.

Up the valley south of us you could see they got a lot more snow then we did.

We went to the Ennis library on Friday and I got caught up from the Big Hole River.

May 27, 28, 29, 30, 31 and June 2.

Madison River, MT – Ruby Creek CG – Friday June 7, 2019

No fishing today, the water is dirty and it is going to rain all day.

Yesterday after I wrote the post I went outside to check on things and almost got blown over, wind was 50+.

Here is tonight’s forecast;

I will put the slides in before we go to bed.

This is our cellphone data service at Ruby Creek with the WeBoost on, have nothing without it.

Yesterday’s post ended up taking almost an hour to get it to actually post, oh well.

Madison River, MT – Ruby Creek – Thursday June 6, 2019

Happy Birthday Stine.

You cannot see the wind but it is blowing 20-35 mph all day. Blowing so hard I had to be careful it didn’t blowing my glasses off. The slides have been in all day and will be that way tonight.

The river is pretty dirty here but not to bad up at Three Dollar Bridge. 100% chance of rain tomorrow so we’ll see it goes, wind is supposed to be down 83° today 53° tomorrow.

Madison River, MT – Ruby Creek CG – Wednesday June 5, 2019

We moved looking for more fish. We had ZERO cellphone while we were on the Big Hole River, it was a great place and I will go back and fill in the blog.

Today’s drive

I could not get the window on the left to close, touch screens can be a challenge.

We are in the same site as last year, starting June 17, 2018.

Current plan is to fish this area until June 24th.

Big Hole River, MT – Anaconda Sportsman’s Club – Sunday June 2, 2019

I got three Brown’s today, 8, 12 and 10 inches long. The first one was on a black and silver midge, after I netted it, it went out the bottom of my net before I could get my camera out.
The 12 and 10 were both on a size 14 Parachute Adams right after the afternoon hatch started.

This is the 12 inch Brown, these fish are sure thin.
This is the 10 inch Brown

Big Hole River, MT – Anaconda Sportsman Club – Wednesday May 29, 2019

I actually caught this fish the first evening we were here, a 12 inch Mountain White fish.

Fishing was slow for me and the folks floating the river, water is up a little. Nice warm sunny day. This is the first day we had the heat turned off during the day and not turned back on in the evening. Charged the batteries with the solar panel for the first time this trip. 32 degrees outside this morning and got up to 70.

I went up on the roof looking for a small leak we say at Post Falls, ID. Did not see anything obvious but resealed around a couple of clearance lights.