One of Montana's legendary trout flies, the girdle bug, was designed to imitate a large stonefly nymph, or "hellgrammite," as the local anglers on the Big Hole River call the big aquatic insects. Lost ...

A few years ago I walked into a Billings fly shop and announced, "I have a killer streamer pattern that is catching brown trout like crazy. Do you want to see it?" The store proprietor, Jim, looked me ...