Dry Fly Fishing Montana with Sean McLendon from Montana Fly Fishing Lodge
Wet Fly Swing Fly Fishing Podcast
Dave Stewart
4.7 • 530 Ratings
🗓️ 21 May 2026
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
#926b Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/926b
Presented by: Montana Fly Fishing Lodge
Sean McLendon guides out of Montana Fly Fishing near Absarokee, Montana, where anglers can fish everything from technical spring creeks to big freestone rivers like the Yellowstone and Stillwater. His specialty is small water fishing, especially the kind of creeks where stealth and presentation matter more than distance casting.
Throughout this conversation, Sean shared practical strategies for approaching selective trout, fishing dry flies on small streams, and covering water efficiently without spooking fish.
Show Notes: https://wetflyswing.com/926b
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| 0:00.0 | If you were dropped onto a small spring creek with jing clear water and fish rising in plain sight, |
| 0:07.5 | would you be confident enough to have success that day? |
| 0:10.7 | What if that first slides by without taking your fly? |
| 0:14.3 | And the second and the third. |
| 0:16.2 | Because on small waters, nothing is hidden, including your mistakes. |
| 0:20.1 | Today's episode isn't about |
| 0:21.2 | bomb and cast or changing flies every five minutes. It's about control, foot placement, |
| 0:26.2 | drift angle, leader design, and knowing when to not cast at all. Sean McClendon is here from |
| 0:32.1 | the Montana fly fishing lodge and today you're going to discover how to approach a narrow |
| 0:35.9 | spring creek without announcing |
| 0:37.7 | your presence. Why your first presentation is usually your first real shot. How to read shallow |
| 0:44.3 | structure that most anglers might mistake in how to implement his five by five by five method |
| 0:50.2 | when breaking down a run. We're going to get systematic about this today. You're going to |
| 0:54.2 | find out how to effectively catch fish throughout the run. We're going to find out about the |
| 0:59.4 | adjustments that matter more than fly pattern when fish gets selective. We are going to dig deep. This |
| 1:04.8 | is going to be great when we're talking about small creeks, spring creeks, brushy creeks. We're |
| 1:08.4 | going to get into even some of the bigger waters, the overall experience in Montana this year. So just want to let you know before we get into it. |
| 1:15.5 | We do have a couple of spots still available for the big trip to Montana. This is the Montana |
| 1:20.1 | Flyfishing Lodge. You can go to wetfly swing.com slash Montana Lodge right now. |
| 1:26.6 | And if you add your name there, we'll follow up with you on details |
| 1:29.3 | and let you know this is going to be a big one i excited to share this with you sean roy knocks out of the |
| 1:33.8 | park hope you enjoy it you can go to montana flyfishing lodge dot com if you want to get more information |
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