Many people think they know Montana's trout game until they fish the rivers that no one talks about.

The ones without crowds, without shuttle lines, without the midsummer hoodow closures that hammer the rest of the state.

Just cold water sliding off 13,000 foot peaks, unpressedered fish sipping in and out of freestones and spring creeks that stay clear even when Yellowstone turns to chocolate.

This is the Wet Fly Swing podcast where I show you the best places to travel to for fly fishing, how to find the best resources and tools to prepare for that big trip,

and what you can do to give back to the fish species we all love.

Lincoln Powers from Montana Fly Fishing Lodge is here to break down what makes their operations so unique out there.

We're going to find out why this pocket of Montana still fishes like the old days during the river runs through it.

We get into a little bit of that story.

How Browns, rainbows, and Yellowstone cutties move through these tributaries all season.

The wild productivity of their spring creeks from

ice off through the fall and what a full lodge day looks like from casting clinics to four

course dinners to music on the lawn, live music as well. It's all here today. So let's get into it.

Here he is, Lincoln Powers. You can find him at Montana, flyfishing lodge.com.

How you doing, Lincoln? Great. Glad to be here. Yeah, it's great to have you on here. I've been really excited about this one because you fish some waters that I've been thinking about for many years. I've fished Montana a lot, but I've never been out to what we're going to talk about today. So we're going to get into your program. You guys have this amazing lodge, which is, I know it's, we're talking about the Orvis and Dors. I know you're part of the Orvis. We love Orvis in that whole network thing. So we're really going to do a whole full scoop on the lodge program because we're going to prepare. Hopefully, I think the plan is all be out there, hopefully fishing with you guys. So, but let's take it back first to your fishing.

How did you get into fly fishing, the lodge, maybe take us back to square one.

Are you, you've been doing this a while, or are you kind of new to it?

Well, relatively, I'm new to it.

I'm not new to fly fishing.

I've been fly fishing since I was a high schooler anyway.

But the property is this has been in our family

since 1940s and really no livable structure on it. You know, there was an old building.

My first birthday, I had my get pictures of my birthday in the kitchen at that old place,

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