Montana fishing guide Mark Raisler prepares to release a brown trout in the Missouri River during filming of "Missouri Trout: Sipping Dry," one of the films featured in the 2012 Fly Fishing Film Tour. The filmmaker, Simon Perkins, is a fly-fishing guide based near Craig, Mont.
Fly fishing It’s not prime time for fly fishermen unless they’re chasing whitefish, but Rock Creek in Montana has been fishing fairly well. Nymph rigs including Copper Johns, Rubberlegs, worms and princes have been getting the most attention. The lower river has been the most productive lately.
One of California's finest steelhead runs occurs each winter with little fanfare on 23 miles of the lower American River that flows from Nimbus Dam and serpentines through Sacramento and its 1.4 million inhabitants.