Enjoy this four minute plus video produced for us this summer by Muddy Shutter Media. Mike Geary, owner of Healing Waters Lodge, Twin Bridges, Montana, and owner/outfitter of Lewis & Clark Expeditions, explains “Why I Fish” while visually taking you along on a Smith River float trip, around Healing Waters Lodge, and the waters we […]
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Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana
“Fish Like a Guide, But, Live Like a Client” Fly Fishing Schools: Dates for the 2020 Healing Waters Lodge Fly Fishing Schools: April 26 through May 1 and May 3 through the 8th. Package includes six nights lodging, single occupancy, all meals at the lodge, use of loaner fly fishing gear and equipment, classroom and […]
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Emerger It is spring and I have a song in my heart and it is not, “A Bridge Over Troubled Water”. We are honored and grateful to be a finalist for the Orvis 2019 Fly Fishing Lodge of the Yearaward. I am thinking of Dean Martin singing, “Ain’t That A Kick in The Head”. Snowpack is good […]
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For the past 5 months we have practiced our language skills with Coffee Break Spanish podcasts. By this weekend, we will have another check-off on our bucket list, Spain. Mike has rented a house north of Barcelona, in Cadaques, Catalonia. The house overlooks a beautiful bay and is in walking distance to Salvador Dali’s place. […]
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Women and Rivers On our refrigerator, I have a magnetic plaque with a picture of John Wayne in a cowboy hat from the movie Hondo along with the quote, “A mans gotta do what a mans gotta do.” This implied saving damsels in distress, taking on mountain lions with your bare hands, drinking whiskey neat, […]
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Mike Geary Presentation: Tuesday, January 22, at 6 pm, Mike Geary will be at Orvis Houston to talk about fly fishing with us in southwest Montana. We offer vacation packages at our Healing Waters Lodge in southwest Montana, five day/four night guided float trips down 59 river miles of the coveted Smith River, and fly […]
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April 25 thru April 30, 2019: This is considered Graduate school for anglers with more experience with the emphasis of honing your skills. Think of it as immersion therapy. $3250 per person includes six nights and five days lodging, all meals, classroom instruction, 5 days of guided fly fishing. May 2 thru May 7, 2019: […]
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Fly Fishing Vets Patriotic Stimulator by Son Tao Son Tao is an American story. We met Son when he came to Healing Waters Lodge with a group of Disabled Veterans from Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, LLC. Project Healing Waters is a non-profit organization that uses fly fishing as a rehabilitative tool for injured and disabled service […]
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April 25 thru April 30, 2019: This is considered Graduate school for anglers with more experience with the emphasis of honing your skills. Think of it as immersion therapy. $3250 per person includes six nights and five days lodging, all meals, classroom instruction, 5 days of guided fly fishing. May 2 thru May 7, 2019: […]
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Taking Leave of a Friend Chuck Robbins (L) Chuck Robbins was a guide, author, conservationist, husband and father, and a friend. Chuck treaded gently on the land that he loved and gave more than he got. He was an ardent conservationist working to maintain public lands, clean water and wild trout. Chuck was a man of dignity, […]
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