Fly Tying

Grape Slushy Tying Video

Grape Slushy Tying Video

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Grape Slushy Tying Video

Tie this one up this holiday for summer fishing love.

Add a red bead for weight and some added bling to make this fly sing this spring.

Hope you are enjoying the family this week. If they get too annoying retire to the tying desk and spin up some Grape Slushy’s.

A wildly popular fly at times when the fish key on the purple color. Which seems to work often here and beyond. Check out this killer article about what fish see subsurface on MidCurrent.

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Trout Spey Flies @ Headhunters. Sparrow Tying Video

Trout Spey Flies @ Headhunters. Sparrow Tying Video

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Trout Spey Flies @ Headhunters. Sparrow Tying Video

Great Swing bite this week. And the fly that was on top of the list was this Sparrow. Runner up being the Carey Special. Included int he tip five is the leech. Black, olive weighted or not.

But this Gartside pattern is a hit with most of our Two Handed fans. It is popular in black, olive and tan.

Tie this one up for success on the Mo and on your local river.

Check out Jack Gartside’s comments about the origination, naming, and so forth here.

Happy Friday. A nice weekend ahead of us here in Craig. Hope you enjoy yours!

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Tailwater Sow Bug Tying Video

Tailwater Sow Bug Tying Video

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Tailwater Sow Bug Tying Video

This is the bug you need for fall. Spring, summer, and winter too.

If you fish the Mo, then you know you need this.

Love to tie this from the bend of my oversized Adams fishing October thru at least Thanksgiving.

The unweighted version is money. While the Tung-headed pattern can help you get down there where they live.

Snowing hard last night dumped a few inches on the ground here. A bit of a respite today, then back at ‘er on Friday with 5+ inches. Maybe 10 inches!

A good day to tie flies. And many of our guides are. When the wind calms, they will head out and make a couple casts. I may as well.

Come by the shop if you don’t want to tie any up. We have lots of them. And in several versions. With or without beads. Many many flavors too. Headhunters has the Best Flies Under the Big Sky and this fall is no different. We got the flies!

Swing Season is in full swing, and we have created a new Swing Fly 2HTROUT, soft hackle section. All of your favorite trout spey flies in one area!

Hundreds of streamers patterns to get your stripping side revved up. And the dry fly bins are stocked. Headhunters is our name and dry fly fishing is our game. Come by for info, suggestions, and Missouri River trout fishing conversation.

Headhunters open daily 8am til 5pm. Guide trips, fall and winter lodging, flies, 2HTROUT lines galore, tips, leaders, and all the gear you need for a successful day on the water.[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/336672714″ ratio=”4×3″][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Smoke Jumper BWO Tying Video

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Smoke Jumper BWO Tying Video

Our good friend Hans Stephenson over at Dakota Angler with the Smoke Jumper BWO today on the Headhunters Blog.

We like this fly. We like cripples here on the Mo. We like small flies. We like CDC. We like the baetis fly. So consequently we like the Smoke Jumper.

A no frills pattern that looks like the bug. Try the post in darker colors as well for the common glare conundrum here commonly experienced on the Missouri River. A dark post shows well against the slate gray autumn sky.

The river is heating up. Better every day right now. Tie up some fun fall flies this week as you prep for your annual October journey to Mother Mo.

Check out Hans on his YouTube page if you want to see a bundle, a ton of tying videos. Thanks again Hans for the large library of tying videos. A great resource for sure.[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7nyCMM0K04″][/vc_column][/vc_row]

Tuesday Fruit Roll-Up Just Add Vise Video

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A great fly for swinging this fall. For stripping this fall. For having in your arsenal as we move into the fall.

This came around a few years ago and has been a fantastic producer here on the Mo and beyond.

We have ’em in stock in all kinds of flavors, sizes, bead colors. Come by the shop or give us a shout for a bag full of leech goodness preparing your self for a good fall Mo River Session!

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Wednesday Workshop Frenchie Tying Video

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Wednesday Workshop Frenchie Tying Video

This fly is important for the nymphers on this river.

We sell tons of them in the fly bins and you are welcome to buy as many of them as you wish. OR you can tie a few before you arrive.

It’s heavy. Pretty narrow. No excessive tying material hanging from it to slow the sink rate. Simple. Heavy. Effective. Is a derivation of the classic Pheasant Tail. Has red on it. It’s heavy so it can dangle in the eyes of trout. Looks like fish food.

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Longhorn Beetle Tying Video

Longhorn Beetle Tying Video

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Longhorn Beetle Tying Video

Tired of tossing the hopper ad nauseum? Don’t want to throw anything purple or pink? Want to turn heads at Izaak’s when you let the table know you caught the the Buttery Brown you were hunting for?

Yeah, us too.

Why not get behind the beetle. Only sage long term anglers on the Mo tie it on.

Which camp do you subscribe?

Longhorn Beetles work on the Mo. On the lower reach as well. Some down there with success. How about it? Is 2020 the year of the beetle?

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Clouser Crayfish

Clouser Crayfish Tying Video

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Clouser Crayfish Tying Video

August nymphing requires lots of patience, potential weeds crowding your fly, and the Clouser Crayfish. Or a Zirdle.

A top fly for many nymphers this time of year. Add a split shot or not. Many let it ride as you drift over waving grass and bucket filled moving waters. The takes can be violent. Sometimes looks like the fish ate going 100 mph! The bobber certainly moves.

Six feet! If you cannot se the Indi move that far, fly fishing may not be your game?

One of our favorite “big nymphs” here on the Missouri, and it’s popular for bass and trout other places as well. We’ve put together this Clouser Crayfish fly tying kit with everything you need to tie 2 dozen flies. Perfect for yourself or as a gift.

Enjoy your Thursday. Seasonal temps here today with daytime highs in the mid 70’s. Warmer again as we move into next week.

Order your Clouser Crayfish today!

 

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Corn-Fed Caddis Tying Video JAV

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Corn-Fed Caddis Tying Video JAV

A good one for the Mo. And beyond.

Many swear by this pattern. The Corn-Fed Caddis.

If you don’t want to tie it, swing by Headhunters Fly Shop for fully stocked dry fly bins including the Corn-Fed Caddis in all sizes and flavors.

Enjoy your weekend. All good here in downtown Craig.

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Zirdle Bug Just Add Vise

Zirdle Bug Just Add Vise Kit and Video

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Zirdle Bug Just Add Vise Kit and Video

Many are fishing the Zirdle as the top fly on the deep water nymph rig.

Emulates crayfish, or just something that resembles food.

A popular fly throughout the summer months. And in August you will want this fly on your rig. The Zirdle is also a bug that leaves fly bins early in the season. Why not tie up a couple dozen for your trip to the Mo this year? A smart move!

With the water deeper today and maybe the near future tie this and toss at banks that are 2′-4′ deep. Hold on.

Enjoy this Tuesday in Craig. Raining still. Yesterday rained cats and dogs, all day long.

Dry fly fishing still good. Gotta look a bit harder. Good PMD hatch Monday as well. Caddis will take them on top as well. Find you bug and fish it.

Even if it is a Zirdle.

 

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Tuesday Tying Video

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Tuesday Tying Video

The Longhorn Beetle today on the Tuesday Tying Video from Headhunters Fly Shop of Craig Montana.

Beetles on the Mo? Yep. Not right now. But I have seen lots of black flying ants!

You don’t have to fish it if you don’t want too. But I will let you know that many of the long timers here use the black beetle wish smashing success. It is not talked about a lot.

But I’d have a couple in your box. Just in case?!

While many of the Just Add Vise Kits were plundered during the peak of the Covid Crunch we do have a few Longhorn Beetle JAV Kits in stock and are ready to ship.

Tuesday here in Craig. A good day. Wish you were here!

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Purple Lightening Bug Tying Video

HH Shop Open, fishing report, and Purple Lightning Bug Tying Video

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Purple Lightening Bug Tying Video Tie this Purple Lightening Bug up today, fish it tomorrow! BWO’s on the water. Midges on the water. Sometimes fish looking up. Probably not with this high and bright spring weather pattern we are locked into. Yes, moments of overcast and haze, but warm and windy will be the … Read more

Just Add Vice Sale

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Thin Mint JAV Tying Video

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Thin Mint JAV Tying Video

Snow day here on the Mighty Mo. a great day to spin up a few flies. And why not tie up the Thin Mint for your next visit to the Mighty Mo?

Or use it on your local resource. It’ll work anywhere. This adaptation of the classic Woolley Bugger.

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Bubble Yum Scud Tying Video

Bubble Yum Scud Tying Video

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Bubble Yum Scud Tying Video Tie this up for winter, spring, and early summer. The large tungsten bead can get you to the zone without adding split shot to your line. Fewer hinge points means fewer tangles. And fewer tangles are good! 7wt came up with this pattern that fish just love. A scud … Read more

The Dungeon Keeper

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Kelly Galloup’s Sex Dungeon is without a doubt one of the most popular large tandem streamer patterns in the West (World?). The articulated movement, swimmy materials, and large deer hare head that pushes water making noise is a great combination. It’s an expensive fly – lots of materials and complicated – but we sell lots … Read more

Rainbow Czech Classic

Fly Tying Thursday Classic Rainbow Czech

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Fly Tying Thursday Classic Rainbow Czech

If you don’t have this fly in your Missouri River box we know one of two things about you.

Wither you are a dry fly guy, or you have not fished the Mo before.

The Rainbow Czech is a fly pattern that many anglers have on their nymph rig at all times. Or a facsimile thereof.

So, if you are new to the MO, tie this feller up. Lots of them. Squeeky uses this fly 12 months of the year. He does not take it off, often. Always the lead fly of one of the two nymph rigs.

If you got some time this week ahead and don’t know what to do, tie this up for your 2020 spring Mo River Trip.

Do we have the kits available? Of course, JAV kits are proprietary and only available at Headhunters of Craig! See them below and get yours today.

Or you can call the shop and chat with our full time shop staff that can guide you into more JAV kits to tie this winter!

Happy Holidays. Enjoy the week ahead! Come fish if you wish. It’s pretty good![/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/122361553″]

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Friday Fly Tying Just Add Vise

Friday Fly Tying Just Add Vise Mozuri Minnow

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Friday Fly Tying Just Add Vise

The Mozuri Minnow from the vise of John Arnold. John patterned this streamer pattern from the Yozuri Minnow fished on light tackle when living in the Florida Keys. Originally tied with Walleye in mind it soon proved to catch plenty of those silly Mozuri River rainbows too!

Now a daily player and certainly an all-star in the winter months here and everywhere.

Friday Fly Tying Just Add Vise Tie this up and fish it on your streamer rod, your swing rod, and have a couple back-ups in your box!

Enjoy the video, order up Mozuri Minnow Just Add Vise Kit, and add a couple more too! Winter starts after the holidays…

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Just Add Vise Bubble Yum

Tying Ninchs Bubble Yum Scud

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Tying the Bubble Yum Scud

When you think about the Mighty Mo, and nymphing, you think of scuds, sows, and in the winter months…Pink!

Ninchs…I looked up how to make last names plural, so I think this is right…Bubble Yum Scud today on the HH Blog.

Check this baby out. It has a heavy tungsten bead to get you to depth rapidly. And if you are not a fan of using split shot to get your flies into the zone, you will love the Bubble Yum. It’ll get you there.

A guide fly for sure as this is commonly a pattern that lives on the upper end of many Missouri River full-timers nymph rig.

Scuds catch fish on the Missouri River. And many other similar resources around America.

Get this kit for your Holiday tying sessions!

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Thursday Tying Video Foxee Minnow

Thursday Tying Video

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Thursday Tying Video

This is one fly you should have in your possession at all times.

honest.

Swing this baby in the fall. Strip it in the spring.

Or, vice-versa.

Or, both.

Change the colors if you wish. Why not have it available in several color ways? Black is good. White is good. Black and white mixed, is good. Yellow, good. Brown, good. Chartreuse? Good.

Thursday and all is well. Enjoy your weekend ahead. We’ll be fishing. Yesterday in the mid 50’s without wind. Good times. Today? Gonna have to take a drive with a fly rod and see?

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Fruit Roll Up JAV Video

Fruit Roll Up JAV Video

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Fruit Roll Up JAV Video

Love this pattern. Has been responsible for many trout during the Swing Season.

You like stripping? Yeah, we do too. It works!

Tie this feller up this winter or this late fall for 2019, and the future. 2020! It’s right around the corner.

Buy one for yourself and one as a gift!

Integrate differing colored beads, body color, tail. A fly you can run with. And pretty easy. Remember to spend your dollars with the shop that provides your daily Missouri River entertainment. Yessir. Right here at HH of Craig. You can out a few gallons in the tank with every purchase! Need gas to drive this bus man.

The Fruit Roll Up will be part of your streamer selection that you return too often. Or the Thin Mint. That is a winner too!

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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

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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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

Event Announcement: Trout Spey Camp October 10-12

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We’re excited to announce a long anticipated and oft requested event, our first annual Trout Spey Camp here on the Missouri River. It will involve 3 full days of Trout Spey Casting instruction, demonstration and interactive clinics, dinner presentations, and boatloads of demo gear. But most importantly it will involve lots of Spey FISHING, and … Read more

Zirdle Bug Just Add Vise Tying Kit and Video

Zirdle Bug Just Add Vise Tying Kit and Video

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Zirdle Bug Just Add Vise Tying Kit and Video

About time to get out the Zirdle and the Crayfish for the late summer nymphers.

The fish do get on them as well.

Tie up a pile of Zirdles if you like summer subsurface action.

Available at House of Headhunters in Craig MT. Stop  in and see all of the Just Add Vise Kits available while in Craig this summer! Open daily for your trout fishing excitement![/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://vimeo.com/121432769″]

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Buzzballs Fly Tying Just Add Vise

Buzzball Fly Tying Just Add Vise

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Buzzball Fly Tying Just Add Vise

A great fly for the Mo. Squeeky’s favorite summertime app tern.

Been tossing it the past couple weeks. A good time for sure.

It is not red hot, yet. It will be.

No wing profile recognition, no negative reinforcement of the trout. Looks like garbage. The kind of garbage that trout eat. Here, on the Mighty Mo.

Buy this pattern in the shop. We have them in several sizes up to size 18. For baby junk eaters.

Buy this Just Add Vise Tying Kit in store as well. Or online.

Watch the video, then tie the fly. You cannot foul this fly up man. It looks even better if it is tied, un-neatly. Sloppy in fact. Those who tie this fly too neatly, don’t get it.

Fish it with confidence. Created for the junk eaters at Jackson Rock by Gary LaFontaine a couple decades back.

Enjoy your Hump Day. It is the day before The Weeknd starts. Be safe!

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Just Add Vise Corn-Fed Caddis

Just Add Vise Corn-Fed Caddis

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Just Add Vise Corn-Fed Caddis

Today we show you one of the new Just Add Vise Corn-Fed Caddis Kits from House of Headhunters in downtown Craig.

The Corn-Fed Caddis is appropriate for this time of year. It will be one of our top selling flies again in 2019. A true game changer the Corn-Fed Caddis.

This CDC laden fly will tease them up for sure. The trout love this fly! Not only here on the Mighty Mo, but everywhere man. Tie them up by the bunches for all caddis season long success.

Check out this and other Just Add Vise Kits on our online video platform.

Thursday on the Mo. The water is dropping today to 5600cfs. Here we go. More caddis, more PMD’s, more dry fly action.

This late July and August will be epic. We will get through the busy time of the season and coast into a terrific dry fly period. Many of us believe that the previous two August sessions will hold up and this coming will be equally as epic. Fewer anglers, more fish fo you!

Enjoy the Corn-Fed Caddis video and get a couple of these fabulous efficient kits sent your way today!

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Just Add Vise Kit Frenchie w/ Video

Just Add Vise Kit Frenchie w/ Video

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Just Add Vise Kit Frenchie w/ Video

Love this fly. Fished it yesterday for most of the afternoon whilst nymphs the Mo.

Yes, it is a derivation of a pheasant tail nymph.

But, with Tungsten, lead wound, with a red thorax, fished with confidence here on the Mo and beyond.

The Frenchie rules.

A fantastic PMD pattern that lives well into the late summer.

This fella sinks rapidly!

A great kit to add to your collection. Check out all of the new and updated Just Add Vise Tying Kits developed, designed, tied, filmed, merchandised by our own crack team of 7wt and Arnold.

Get yours to day online or in store.

House of Headhunters in downtown Craig Montana.

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New Just Add Vise Kits

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]We’ve just added a few new Just Add Vise kits to our inventory, and updated a few others. Our Just Add Vise Kit’s continue to be very popular, and most of these new kits were created based on numerous requests. You can find the videos all on one page on the menu under “RESOURCES > … Read more

Tuesday Tying Kits Half Chicken

Tuesday Tying Kits Half Chicken

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Tuesday Tying Kits Half Chicken

A local classic that I first saw fishing with Mark Daly and LT back in the day. Don’t know who created it, but one of those two certainly had their hands in it. Both long time Mo River anglers and two of Squeeky’s influences for sure. Learned a ton about the river from both of those cats.

Tie this up for any PMD, caddis, or even March Brown action this coming summer. It begins to produce this month in conjunction with the Mother’s Day Caddis.

Fish it. Do it. Buy it. Tie it.

More Headhunters Just Add Vise kits on the way soon. 7wt. and John have been hashing out some new favorites. We can’t wait to see the next evolution of this famous Craig Montana product homegrown from your information and education source on the Missouri River.

Our JUST ADD “VISE” fly tying kits are super popular. These kits are designed for tyers who have grasped the basic moves of fly tying, and are priced just as if you bought the materials individually. The package comes with everything needed to tie 2 dozen flies, and has a material list included so you can re-supply when needed. You can watch our short “how-to” videos if you need help with a step or two. These are super popular, and are great for those camped out on the Missouri River pr in their living rooms watching golf, or baseball, or something your wife loves?

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Leonard Flies

Leonard’s Awesome Flies

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Leonard’s Awesome Flies Not my first cup of Leonard’s Awesome Flies. Hopefully not my last either. Long time Headhunters friend Leonard ties some real nice patterns. Always thinking and tying creative Missouri River flies. He ties flies for a couple other resources he and fishing pal Rick frequent. Rick ties some nice ones too! I … Read more

Firebead Ray Just Add Vise Tying Kit

Firebead Ray Fly Tying Video

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Firebead Ray Just Add Vise Tying Kit

Tie this one up for winter water.

If this is not in your box for the winter and spring fishing here on the Mo, you must not fish here often!

The coming out of this specific pattern was in 2008. HH had it. High water was here. This was the bug that you had to have.

Now a winter staple as well as a spring time producer. Tie them up in a coulee different shades like pink, gray-pink, and gray. And tan is the sleeper!

Tie them up. If not, swing by the shop, or order online here!

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Grape Slushy Just Add Vise Video

Grape Slushy Just Add Vise Video

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Grape Slushy Just Add Vise Video

This purple guy catches trout.

Still in us this fall as we get through the month of November.

Fished this the other day with really good success late morning through dark. Successful.

Enjoy the video today. Snowing here in Craig. A good day for swinging or tying flies at the tying bench.

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Just Add Vise Tungsten Dart

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Just Add Vise Tungsten Dart

This fly works. Been fishing it in the canyon reach for months.

It probably has another couple weeks of life this fall.

A great fly starting in May and running into November.

Tie them up today for this fall or next season. Book your Missouri River fishing trip too?!

 

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Attention Swingers and Strippers Mozuri Minnow Video

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Attention Swingers and Strippers Mozuri Minnow Video and Tying Kit

Swingers and Strippers are coming in daily. One of the flies that you must have is the Mozuri Minnow.

Created by John Arnold of Scumliner Media and Headhunters Fly Shop this pattern is a something you should tie up before coming. Black Leeches too!

Enjoy this rain ridden Thursday in central Montana. Fall is settling in, almost. The Autumnal Equinox is Saturday September 22nd in the evening. Be ready for this change in colors, fishing, and technique.

Yes, the Headhunting and Streamer Fishing will be heating up once again for this annual falll fishing event! Enjoy the Mozuri Minnow on your local river too!

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Just Add Vise Zirdle Bug Tying Kit

Just Add Vise Zirdle Bug Tying Kit Video

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Just Add Vise Zirdle Bug Tying Kit Video

High water means more bigger bugs.

Yep. Big fly big water theory. Some say it. Some even mean it.

If you are headed this way in the spring, summer, or fall you may want to have this in your trout bag.

Nymph it. Streamer fish it. Jig it. Well shoot, float it.

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Pink Lightening Bug Just Add Vise Kit

Pink Lightening Bug Just Add Vise Kit

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Pink Lightening Bug Just Add Vise Kit

This might be a good idea to tie on fishing the Mo this spring.

One of the standard issue fly patterns. I first saw it from local legend Dan Gard. Don’t know if he invented it, or tipped it, but he was the first one to have it.

Bob Brent may have invented it. One of those two. I think it was Dan though. Dangerous Dan  Gard. Great fly creator. Funny feller. Have a couple stories about guiding with Dan my first or second year ont eh Mo. Fun times. Enjoyed it a lot. Learned a ton from the likes of Dan Gard and Geoff Ferguson in the front end of the 2000’s. May more too. But I like the way those two tie their flies. Fuzzy. Shaggy. Good looking. Fishy.

I think it was Dan’s baby.

Tie this feller up if you want to catch some with the bobber this spring.

The Headhunters Online Shop is LIVE again. Our crack web team, John, put the new version together this winter. Lots of work. Great looking store. Ready for action. Why shop on Amazon wen you can get your fly fix here online.

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Rainbow Czech Nymph Just Add Vise Kit, Video

Rainbow Czech Nymph Just Add Vise Kit, Video

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Rainbow Czech Nymph Just Add Vise Kit, Video

The legendary Rainbow Czech Nymph offered by Headhunters Fly Shop of Craig Montana.

Included is the video above. Come by the shop picking up the Just Add Vise Rainbow Czech Nymph Tying Kit. Tie a zillion my friend. This fly only works from this week…until last week next year.

The Rainbow Czech nymph is attached to most nymph rigs 365 days a year!

It used to me our #1 seller in the shop. Now it may be Wilcox’s Little Green Machine. I’d tie the LGM below the RB Czech. Then get your net ready.

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Pink Lightening Bug Video

Pink Lightening Bug Just Add Vise Kit w/ Video

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Pink Lightening Bug Just Add Vise Kit w/ Video

It’s winter. It’s cold. It’s time to tie some flies.

The Pink Lightening Bug is an 8 month bug here in central Montana. We fish it hard November into early June.  You could probably do just fine fishing it the remainder of the year too, but we hav either non-ink flies for a period. Right?

This is a popular Just Add Vise Kit at Headhunters of Craig supplying you with enough material and hooks to spin up 25 of these pink flavored morsels!

Call today and get a couple of our famous Just Add Vise kits in the post for you today!

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Pink Lightening Bug JAV Video

Pink Lightning Bug JAV Video

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Pink Lightning Bug JAV Video

This ever popular winter bug today on the Headhunters Fly Shop Blog and Fishing Report. The Pink Lightening Bug JAV Video.

Watch and learn. If you don’t want to tie them up stop by the shop and fill up a cup or two. Or you could pick out a few Just Add Vise kits including the Pink Lightning Bug.

Happy Friday. Many Headhunters staffers fished this week with results all over the board. Some days are better than others. Mark fished yesterday with hot and cold stretches. Swung the fly the entire time with fish coming to hand on the Thin Mint, small black leeches, the Sparrow, Superflash White Zonker. larger Partidge and Peacock. John was out several days this last week too. His report is good. He has not changed flies in a month or two. And fishing in very thin water. That is true. The fish are holding in beautiful locales. Without the pressure yo can find them in pretty obvious spots.

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Chartreuse Little Green Machine

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Blue Winged Olives With snow the last couple days, river temps are continuing to drop. This morning the water temp was 54.5 degrees. As this trend continues, we will continue to see lots of pseudos. Before too long we will be seeing some of the larger blue winged olives. In the meantime, you can … Read more

Mozuri Minnow Just Add Vise Kit Video

Mozuri Minnow Just Add Vise Kit Video

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Mozuri Minnow Just Add Vise Kit Video

Getting ready for full on fall with the Mozuri Minnow Just Add Vise Kit Video today y on Headhunters Fly Shop daily blog.

John Arnold created this pattern a few years back for the Missouri River based on the Yo-Zuri plugs he saw in Florida. It works!

Mozuri MinnowSwing it, strip it, jerk it, fish it.

Enjoy your Wednesday with some fly tying at your office desk. Order up some of our famous Just Add Vise kits and get after it!

Sunny here on the river today with the bugs coming off this afternoon. The nymphing is nearly red hot and the dry fly bite damn good int eh afternoon. The streamer bite waxing.

If you want to visit please bring some cloud cover with you. And cooler fall temps. Please.

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Little Green Machine JAV

Little Green Machine JAV

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Little Green Machine JAV

You need the Little Green Machine tucked away in your fly vest this fall.

Possibly the most popular fly at Headhunters of Craig. It still may be the Rainbow Czech Nymph, but I think it has been surpassed by this 12 month jewel.

Wilcox’s Little Green Machine is an essential fly on this and many other rivers of the west.

Order up the Little Green Machine Just Add Vise Kit from the shop or swing in and pick up not only this must have but many others for the Missouri River.

If you don’t feel like tying it, we only have about 1000 dozen in reserve….

You gotta have this little killer if you like to short leash, deep nymph, or tie it off an Adams. A fly for all conditions.

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Six Essential Flies For The Missouri River

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]A couple days ago, I was digging through one of my fly tying drawers and I found an old shuttle sheet. The shuttle sheet was dated December 29, 2015. On the back of it were scribbled several lists of six flies. The lists were made by some of the shop staff during a slow winter … Read more

X Caddis Video

X Caddis Tying Video Just Add Vise Kits

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] X Caddis Tying Video Just Add Vise Kits These legendary tying its come with everything you need for tying 25 flies. And a video to boot! Slow it down, speed it up, pause it…you are the boss! Folks love these tying kits to tie any fly in our local favorites selection. I have been … Read more

Juvie Jigger Streamer Strikes!

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Juvie Jigger Streamer At the end of April, Headhunters hosted a Spring Streamer Fly Tying Contest on our Facebook page. We received a ton of awesome entries. Choosing a winner was tough. Each shop staffer and several guides selected their favorite three streamers. Eric Stollar’s Juvie Jigger streamer was selected by the greatest number … Read more

Spring Streamer Fly Tying Contest Photos

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Spring Streamer Fly Tying Contest Headhunters hosted a streamer fly tying contest on our Facebook page this past week. The objective was to submit a home-brewed streamer pattern that would work well on the Mo this spring. Tyers sent in a ton of awesome streamer patterns! It was hard to narrow down the submissions. I … Read more

Ninch’s Fish Finder Worm

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Ninch’s Fish Finder Worm needs to be in your box. Fish like worms. Rising water flushes worms from the banks and bottom of the river into the current. Last week the flows increased from around 5,000 cfs to the current flow of 7,120 cfs. The fish are eating both aquatic and terrestrial worms now.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][us_image … Read more

Spring Streamers / Streamer Fly Tying Contest

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Spring Streamer Fishing Spring is a great time to fish streamers on the Missouri River. At the time of this writing, the river is flowing at 6,880 cfs and temps are around 45 degrees F. These higher flows and increased temps can push hungry fish tight to the banks, making them prime targets for anglers … Read more

Missouri River Bugs – April

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Last week we collected our first sample of bugs from the Missouri River below the Untouchable’s Bridge. The bugs that we collected were about what you would expect for April. Sows and scuds composed the majority of the biomass, but midges and blue-winged olive nymphs were abundant too. Somewhat surprisingly, PMD nymphs were abundant and almost the … Read more

Freddy Fly Step By Step

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[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] Freddy Fly Step By Step Before the Chubby Chernobyl, John Foust’s Freddy Fly (or Fat Freddy) was a staple pattern throughout the West. Foust invented the fly for the waters around Missoula, but it has caught fish all over the world. The Freddy differs from a lot of modern foam patterns in its incorporation of a … Read more