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Included in your package at Complete Fly Fisher are meals, accommodations, fully stocked bar, and guided fishing. Rods and reels, waders, flies and terminal tackle are all provided if necessary.

Not included in your package at Complete Fly Fisher are fishing licenses, transportation to and from the lodge, gratuities for guides and a 10% hospitality fee paid to lodge at checkout.

The Fly Shop® is not in the insurance business, but we recommend Travel Guard (AIG) and Global Rescue (IMG) coverage as a service with a desire to see your best interests protected. It is impossible to know when an unfortunate situation (loss of luggage, fly rods, illness in the family, or an accident) may occur. However, such things can and do happen, and this insurance can provide a means of recourse against non-refundable financial losses.

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The Cabins:
Each of the 6 cabins are standalone buildings ensuring that your nights rest is quiet and peaceful. They all have a screened-in porch perfect for enjoying your morning coffee, or a cigar and beverage after a day on the water. One of the cabins has a ramp entrance to the building as well as in the shower for accessibility. Cabin #6 is a double suite with two separate rooms perfect for two couples traveling together. Each bedroom has its own bath and there is a sitting area in-between to tell fishing stories in the afternoon.

The Barn:
The newly-renovated barn at The Complete Flyfisher is a really neat way to experience Montana and the Big Hole valley. There are three bedrooms in the barn. The master has its own bath while the other two rooms share a bath with a shower and have a second ½ bath as well. Every detail of the interior of this building has been meticulously updated. There is a great room upstairs with leather furniture and a lofted ceiling with exposed beams. It is a beautiful spot to hang out with a few friends while anticipating the next day’s fishing.

The pin-ball boulders in stretches of this magnificent river provide for fantastic wading at times. And the shaded banks of cottonwood trees create ideal habitat for fish to comfortably take up feeding lies, sipping the river’s myriad hatches. Our guides love to watch our guests fall in love with the river they know and love so much!

Cutthroat trout are native on the spring creeks and feeder streams of the Big Hole and anglers commonly find cutbows down below. Neighboring rivers like the Bitterroot and Clark Fork have famously active rainbows. The fish that surround us here in the Big Hole valley are incredible.

The Beaverhead:
The Beaverhead - sitting less than an hour from the lodge – is a willow-lined tailwater fishery resembling a large spring creek. With more than 3,000 trout per mile, the river offers anglers tremendous opportunities to catch large fish, or when conditions are right, large numbers of fish.

The Beaverhead and Big Hole are limited to outfitters with permits to fish these waters, ensuring a quality fishing experience without the crowds.

The Jefferson:
Formed by the Ruby, Beaverhead and Big Hole Rivers coming together, the “Jeff” is a haven for anglers wanting to cast dry flies, streamers and the famed “girdle bug” to some of the largest trout found in Montana. Floating through the Tobacco Root Valley is a special treat. Each year some of the largest trout caught by guests at CFF are from the Jefferson River. Our guides know this water as well as anyone and know where the big fish can be found.

Rock Creek:
An absolute jewel amongst Montana’s trout streams, Rock Creek seems like a place that hasn’t changed in forever. The river flows fast and clear year round, and trout are aggressive and plentiful - a classic Montana mountain stream. Rock Creek drains the back side of the Anaconda Wilderness and joins the Clark Fork headed to the Pacific. From sometime in mid-May through June every year anglers float this stunning river on a special, limited permit authorized through the Lolo National Forest. Rock Creek has wonderful salmonfly and golden stonefly hatches, back to back, and the native cutthroats, rainbows and browns are plentiful and willing. Launches are limited, and early booking is a great idea. This opportunity is provided in cooperation with and permitted through the Lolo National Forest.

The Bitterroot and Clark Fork:
The Bitterroot and Clark Fork River valleys thaw out each spring and offer superb dry fly fishing in late March through April and May. A little over one hour from the lodge, these two streams sit at lower elevations and are tremendous early season fisheries. Beginning in late March the Skwala stones show up and hungry trout that have survived the winter are ready for a meal. The bugs through the summer range in size from #6 to #14. These rivers offer productive dry fly fishing for big brown and rainbow trout throughout the season.

The Missouri:
Although the “MO” is a two-hour drive from the lodge, guests never seem to mind the journey through Big Sky Country on their way to the river. Once they get on the water the reason is obvious – The MO is a great fly fishing stream. This tail-water river runs cold and clear year round and is loaded with 18” to 22” brown and rainbow trout. The hatches on the Missouri are legendary - beginning the season with tiny blue-winged olives, followed by pale morning duns, then with blizzard-like caddis hatches. For nearly two months there are Trico spinner falls where trout line up like they are at the buffet line at a Sunday brunch. For the streamer enthusiast, the bugger fishing early and late in the seaso can be rewarding. A day on the MO is a must if you visit Montana.