Headhunter Fly Line Video

Headhunter Fly Line Video

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Headhunter Fly Line Video

Check out our proprietary Headhunters Fly Line designed by Headhunters, for Headhunters.

Watch the video. Buy the fly line. Raise the bar on your dry fly game.

Saturday here on the Mo. Snowing. 4th snow of the year. Good to great dry fly bite. If the wind does not blow.

But then again, you are ordering a dry fly line designed for success in the wind.

We have had a ton of sales success with the Headhunter Fly Line. It has been received well throughout the fly fishing industry and our customers love it!

Get yours today. We’ll be out hunting heads today through the falling snow.

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Late October Weekend Missouri River Fishing Report

Late October Weekend Missouri River Fishing Report

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Late October Weekend Missouri River Fishing Report Fishing is heating up. It has not been a record fall as we write this fishing report mid day Friday October 25th. Fair fishing. Not fo the fickle. Those who fish here more often, are having more success than the anglers who are maybe here for the … Read more

Trout Spey Camp Roundup

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]above: Whitney Gould offers some tips to one of the casting competition competitors. WHAT A CRAZY WEEK! Somehow, we managed to set up for, hold, and clean up after a 3+ day event at the shop and get to Denver to attend the International Fly Tackle Dealer show. We’re back in Craig, and processing everything … Read more

Off Air

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Off Air The Headhunters Brain Trust will be in Denver for the annual International Fly Tackle Dealer Show this week. The blog will be Off Air for the week. If you cannot survive with out daily HH News, check out our social sites. We will be covering the show, our travels, and beyond. Want up … Read more

Trout Spey Camp Fly Contest

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Here’s a great group of swing flies submitted for our fly tying competition at Trout Spey Camp.  Maybe they will inspire you to get on the vice and whip up a new Trout Spey home brew of your own. Thanks so much to all the participants who took the time to tie and submit their … Read more

Monday HH Fishing Report

Monday HH Fishing Report

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Monday HH Fishing Report Flows are good, and historically average at 4200cfs. Water temps 51F. Should be stable for the week ahead. BWO’s, Pseudo’s, tan caddis. Those are your daily bugs. Most days, or even some days. Weather ahead? 50’s and 60’s with nighttime lows in the 40’s then 30’s. Flies? BWO Cripples. BWO Emergers. … Read more

Saturday Trout Spey Camp Update

Saturday Trout Spey Camp Update

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Saturday Trout Spey Camp Update Halfway through day 3 of our 2019 Trout Spey Camp. Sunny 52F. All is well! 7F Thursday morning. Feels good to have the sun on our backs! The anglers are out fishing the Mo. Swinging. Fun to see the group learn, progress, chat, smile, and swing. The final dinner this … Read more

Friday Foto #troutspeycamp 2019

Friday Foto #troutspeycamp 2019

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Friday Foto #troutspeycamp 2019 Fun times. Trout Spey Camp 2019. #troutspeycamp Fishing not too good. The catching part. The fishing part real swell. The swinging is good. Lots of fun trying new rods and lines and such from he product representatives in house for this even from Loomis, Nautilus, Echo, Hatch, SA, RIO, SIMMS, Orvis, … Read more

Thursday October 10th Headhunters Fly Shop Fishing Report

Thursday October 10th Headhunters Fly Shop Fishing Report

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Thursday October 10th Headhunters Fly Shop Fishing Report Lots happening locally as we kick off our Trout Spey Camp 2019 this morning with a cast of thousands here in downtown Craig Montana. Spey casters from around the country and beyond have gathered here at Headhunters for this educational, informational, product showcase with reps and all … Read more

Montana Trout Spey Video

Montana Trout Spey Video Scumliner Media

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Montana Trout Spey Video Scumliner Media

New, no. Cool, yes.

I have watched this a ton of times. And I’m gonna watch it many more today.

I love watching good casters. It never gets old. Mental training is important in the learning process.

Lots of folks do not know what kind of learner they are. See’r, do’er, feeler, understander. I’m a Understander 1st, and a see’r 2nd. So watching Mike make those fundamental casts gets me further down the road.

Then I can go out and try to replicate the simplicity of his stroke.

And, sometimes it works. Getting on the water with a rod in your hand for countless hours is how you move forward. Very difficult to assume Rock Star status with out standing knee deep in a run for countless, hours.

Enjoy the video. One of my favorites. Tuesday today. Thursday begins the Trout Spey Camp. Looking forward to a weekend of two handed fun![/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/129327269″][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Trout Spey Camp Fishing Forecast

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More winter on the way this week, which should ramp the swing fishing up another level (it’s already pretty good)! Right now we are under a Winter Storm Watch for Tuesday and Wednesday, followed by cooler temperatures for the rest of the week. Nighttime lows will be below freezing with daytime highs 40-50 degrees. While … Read more

Double Spey River Right

Double Spey River Right Video

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Double Spey River Right Video

A quick video today on this Sunday previous to our big Trout Spey Camp beginning this Thursday.

Funtimes ahead. The spey bite has been good with streamers primarily followed by the soft hackle. Seconded. Not attached.

The bite is improving. The water levels have dropped a bit. The water temps continue to decrease. The leaves are falling after the snow and sold snap this past weekend. We are having a ball on the Mo.

Look us up if you are heading out in the next two months. We love October and November. Great streamer and swing months. Great dry fly and nymph months. Great months!

Have a fun and family filled Sunday. We’ll be busy prepping here in Downton Craig embracing full fall-dom!

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Wednesday Headhunters Fishing Report 10.2.19

Wednesday Headhunters Fishing Report 10.2.19

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Wednesday Headhunters Fishing Report 10.2.19 Day 2 of October. Liking it already. The morning temps are cool. 17F as we write this. A cool 13F yesterday morning. But the afternoon was fantastic with air temps crawling into the Hi 30’s! BWO’s: Saw a couple 18’s yesterday. I think that is the Beatis Bicaudatus. Like … Read more

Tying Tuesday @ Headhunters of Craig

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Tying Tuesday @ Headhunters of Craig

The Sparrow is a fly that flat out works.

Commonly swung through Missouri River Trout Spey runs.

Or employed with a single hander while fishing the RIO Single Handed Spey Line. Squeeky’s favorite single handed line for fall skinny water weed bed hovering, plucking, surprising, sneaking, stalking…

An easy caster, true feel, solid hook-ups. A line that makes me forget I’m tossing a streamer line.

Honest, that line is fantastic. Try it. You’ll like it. Line technologies continue to impress me. Whether it be from the gang in Idaho Fall or east of us in Michigan. While rod technologies move forward I could argue that fly line tapers, technologies, and applications are moving at a breakneck pace.

Whoa! Off track per usual. The Sparrow. Tie it. Fish it. Love it.

Plus how cool is it at the bar when asked what you were using out there today to state confidently…

A Sparrow Bro’.

This Jack Gartside pattern has fooled tons of fish. While fresh patterns will catch not only our eyes but the trout out there, classic patterns like the Sparrow never fall from style. So many of the current fly patterns incorporate flashy tunnel like synthetics. Not the Gartside Sparrow. Just the like the most classic of streamer patterns, ie Woolly Bugger, this fly hangs onto fame without contemporary bling.

After learning how to tie the pattern you can implement any color scheme you desire. Like the October Caddis would look dazzling to those trout with autumn caddis interests. Yummy!

The Sparrow is part of our extensive proprietary Fly Tying Kits line Just Add Vise. Check out all of the Just Add Vise Kits that include enough hooks, materials, and video to tie 25 flies!

Come by the shop and check out the Missouri River Canyons best trout spey fly selection. There is no comparison in the Tri-County region.

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Mo River October Caddis Love

Mo River October Caddis Love

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Mo River October Caddis Love September is over and we look forward to October as it is one of our favorite months here on the banks of Montana’s Mighty Missouri River. Therefore, we proclaim our Mo River October Caddis Love. September is a good month for October Caddis. Just like March is not the … Read more

Sunday Snow Report from Headhunters of Craig

Sunday Snow Report from Headhunters of Craig

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Sunday Snow Report from Headhunters of Craig Still snowing here in Craig. Not as much as the doomsday report had got us ready for. But thankfully we were prepared. Blowing hard from the north as we write. Drifting snow around the state and the Rockies got hit pretty hard. Specifically the eastern front. Lots … Read more

Silly September Saturday Scenery

Silly September Saturday Scenery and Fishing Report

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Silly September Saturday Scenery Fall is here. Autumn may be gone with the snow from this winter event we are currently enduring, Snowing hard in Cascade with at least 2″ on the ground already this morning. Projected to be 15″+ in the next 48 hours. Yuck. But blowing hard from the North too. Snowing … Read more

Friday Foto

Friday Foto Calm before the Storm

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Friday Foto Calm before the Storm Cool, calm, overcast. That is the status today. Rained last night. Do we historically have snow this time of year? Oh yeah. Generally we have already had a spit or two of snow. Almost always. The first couple weeks of September brings an early Autumn storm. But not this … Read more

Face Plant Minnow JAV Video

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Face Plant Minnow JAV Video Appropriate for the weekend snow ahead of us here in downtown Craig Montana. Tying in the snow, inside. Tying for the streamer season, which has indeed started. Tying because you like to have cool streamer patterns in your box. Tying because it is fun. This and many other Just … Read more

7 September Missouri River Tips

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] 7 September Missouri River Tips Enjoy the outdoors. Colors changing, weather changing. Enjoy your friends. Whiskey is a nice liquid to harbor in your flask. Bring your JetBoil too. For the coffee. Dry fly caddis if you dare. Blind it out there in damn fishy water. 18″-36″ of water is a favorite hang for … Read more

Trout Spey Camp Update & Report

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Fishing today is the priority, so let’s get right to the spey report. The crew is starting to get out with the two-handers now, and we’ve been running a few guided spey trips as well. Fishing the swing is pretty good right now, and will be getting better every day for the next couple of … Read more

Dangerous Type The Cars Ric Ocasek

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Dangerous Type The Cars Ric Ocasek

RIP Ric.

Big band when I was a kid. Bought several albums from Columbia House back of the magazine subscriptions including my first 2 Cars albums.

Then I was hooked on Ric Ocacek’s voice and groove.

Watching the 80’s rock stars die. Nobody lives forever. Including rock stars.

One of my favorite tunes. The Dangerous Type. The Cars.

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Friday Fly Fishing Facts. Or a Squeaky Autumnal Rant

Friday Fly Fishing Facts. Or a Squeaky Autumnal Rant

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Friday Fly Fishing Facts. Or a Squeaky Autumnal Rant A few things on my mind as we move into the fall season. Facts are what I have been entertaining the past 3 weeks. Fly fishing facts. Physics. Norms. Things of that sort. Disclaimer: If you don’t like criticism, or reality, or fly fishing realities, … Read more

Weekend Missouri River Fishing Report

Weekend Missouri River Fishing Report

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Weekend Missouri River Fishing Report Getting better daily. The nymph bite has stabilized with the better catch rates mid day. It has cocked off in the late afternoons though. 11-3 has fished pretty well the past couple days, Weeds get worse throughout the day. Good in the mornings with agitation occurring during the afternoons. Go … Read more

Headhunters has Guides

Headhunters has Guides

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Headhunters has Guides Shane Wilson above laughing with his guests Tuesday, Need a fly fishing guide on the Missouri River Montana? Headhunters has guides.  A bundle of full time ones. Available all the way thru Christmas. And beyond. Call today for more on your fall fly fishing trip. 406-235-3447. Lines are open. Lodging too.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Boat Ramp Etiquette FWP Video

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Boat Ramp Etiquette FWP Video

Be polite. Be prepared. Don’t block others. So the right thing. Follow the Golden Rule.

All that stuff.

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Friday Fall Foto

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Friday Fall Foto All good here on the Mo. Weedy? Yes. The upper end not as much. Towards Cascade not as much. It seems to get eaten up by the rapids at Half Breed? Always strange. Fishing decent, not as good as it gets. Nymph bite is OK and the upper bite not as good. … Read more

Why it is important to reflect on days like today 9/11

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To understand why, how, where we come from. To respect those who came before us. To honor those who have fallen innocently. To honor and respect those who fight for our freedom. So often we forget that most of us do not fight for our freedom. Realize this today. To reflect on bad guys. To … Read more

Silly Saturday Scenery

Silly Saturday Scenery

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Silly Saturday Scenery Autumn weather. An Autumn mood. Fishing is turning for the better, I think. I feel it in my bones. Decent bite sub-surface Friday. Decent bite on the surface. Overall? Decent. Today? Could be better. Will have to fish to find out. Report tomorrow. College football, September MLB action, US Open finals, hunting … Read more

Headhunters Surf T

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Headhunters Surf T Autumn weather brings on the need for a long sleeve T some mornings. Soon a hoody or puffball to start the day, over your Headhunters Surf Logo T.  We love the long sleeve shirt. Breathes well, protects from the sun @ 30spf, and just feels right on your skin man. Order … Read more

Trout Spey Gear Roundup 2019-20

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]It’s time for our annual Trout Spey Gear Roundup as “Swing Season” approaches. A month from today we will be getting after it pretty hard (some of us are now), and in two months we wont be doing much else. We like to think we have a pretty darn good selection of Ultra-light Spey gear, … Read more

Trout Spey Camp Event Page

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] DEDICATED EVENT PAGE We’ve created an EVENT PAGE for our first annual Trout Spey Camp so you can see a complete – but fluid – itinerary. I will keep updating the page as changes and additions are made. We’ve also included more detailed description of the clinics and how the event will roll out. … Read more

Saturday Scenery

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Today you are either watching college football or fishing somewhere or spending the holiday weekend with family and friends. It’s the last weekend of the summer, so you’re not likely laying on the couch checking out the Headhunters blog. For the few that are, here’s a picture of the Craig bridge at sunrise in August. … Read more

End of August Fishing Report

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Our longtime friend RJ Maricich with a dandy Brown Trout he caught recently with guide Shane Wilson. On a hopper if you can believe it! And that’s the program right now for most. Hoppers. But there’s more going on than that, especially on the upper river. The trickiest call is the morning. You can 1) … Read more

What Hopper?

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Were in the midst of a good hopper season in Montana. From the Yellowstone to the Madison to the Bitteroot, it seems like everyone is talking Hoppers. Same on the Mo’. The hoppers were late – like all the other hatches – but they’re thick now, and hopper fishing is about as good as you … Read more

Check out the Big Brain on Ben!

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]If you cruise around our shop, you’ll notice we like 2 things: 1. Fly fishing products that are useful, well made and and incorporate exceptional design. 2. Things that make us laugh. From the creative mind of Ben McNinch comes a product that ticks both boxes, our new “BMF” Amadou Boat Patch. It’s big, the … Read more

Sage Trout Spey HD

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]“Swing Season” is just around the corner, and we’ve even been out doing some prospecting with our ultra-light Spey Rods already. While we’re still in the middle of dry fly season, we’re starting to get some tackle questions revolving around Trout Spey gear for the fall. The biggest rod announcement of the season is the … Read more

ACR Nova Closeout!

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Anderson Custom Rods (ACR) has been slowly replacing their popular Nova series Spey Rods with the new “Nova 2” series. Last spring we received the 3 and 4 weights, but the 2 weight was a while in coming. But it’s on the way, so we’re closing out our last few ACR Nova 10’8” #2 models … Read more

Where’s Mark?

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Probably at the Ball Park If you haven’t figured it out yet, you’re not actually reading our blog posts. Mark is long gone on vacation, and will be for a while yet. He’s on the East Coast, on a MLB baseball tour. I’m not exactly sure what he’s doing and where, but I know … Read more