Healing Waters Lodge is an Orvis endorsed fly fishing lodge with a stellar reputation and we are also the largest fly fishing outfitter on Montana’s coveted, Smith River. Mike Geary continues to successfully own and operate, Lewis & Clark Expeditions, for over 25 years. Our Smith River fly fishing float trip is 59 river miles […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana – Smith River Float Trips" »Category: Trout and Trout Habitat Conservation
Mike Geary, owner of Healing Waters Lodge and Lewis & Clark Expeditions Fly Fishing Outfitters is actively involved with the local chapter and lifetime member of Montana Trout Unlimited which supports and engages in activities of the local biologist for Montana’s Fish, Wildlife, and Park; the Beaverhead Watershed Committee; FWP Smith River Corridor Committee; Missouri River Watershed and more. Supports and actively involved with Montana Land Reliance-Ruby Habitat Foundation in the heart of the Ruby valley.
Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana
Last week we had the good fortune of hosting Tammy and John, guests of Harlan (who has been coming to Healing Waters Lodge for 15 years) and his wife, Amy, all soon to become “in-laws” as their children marry. Orvis review written by John and Tammy: “We went for the friendships, we stayed for the […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana" »Fishing, Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, and More Fishing
At Healing Waters Lodge we are intimately involved with Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Inc., a non-profit organization founded by Retired Navy Captain Ed Nicholson. Below are testimonials from two friends of ours who assisted us last summer at the lodge working with disabled veterans. They also represent the quality and character of the […]
Continue reading "Fishing, Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, and More Fishing" »Fly Fishing the Big Hole River with Healing Waters Lodge in Southwest Montana
Big Hole River Description So it begins high in the Beaverhead Mountains, the Big Hole River flows for 153 miles through a fly fishing wonderland filled with Brook, Rainbow, Brown and Cutthroat trout. The Big Hole is the last remaining habitat for fluvial Arctic Grayling in the contiguous United States. Along the Big Hole corridor […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing the Big Hole River with Healing Waters Lodge in Southwest Montana" »Fishing Over the Immortal Nakedness of Montana
Fishing Over the Immortal Nakedness of Montana “The sea, autumn mildness, islands bathed in light, fine rain spreading a diaphanous veil over the immortal nakedness of Greece. Happy is the man, I thought, who, before dying, has the good fortune to sail the Aegean Sea.” A passage from the novel, Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis. […]
Continue reading "Fishing Over the Immortal Nakedness of Montana" »Fly Fishing the Beaverhead River
Over 200 years ago, Lewis and Clark discovered the Beaverhead River hoping to find a Northwest Passage. William Clark was overheard saying, “Oops” when they realized their portage over the Rockies was going to be an extra 250 miles. So it goes…. Today, the Beaverhead River flows out of Clark Canyon Reservoir Dam creating one […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing the Beaverhead River" »Montana Snow Pack Survey = Fly Fishing and more
Healing Waters Lodge and Lewis & Clark Expeditions Smith River fly fishing trips depend on water, of course. Online, we follow the abundance of information posted on the Montana Natural Resource Conservation Services Snow Survey site. The information is gathered by the NRCS National Water and Climate Center and other monitoring organizations and placed on this site […]
Continue reading "Montana Snow Pack Survey = Fly Fishing and more" »Sponsors Needed for Disabled Active/Retired Military Service Men and Women Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana
Over the past 14 years, it has been our pleasure to recruit folks, that feel the same way we do about our military service members, to assist us in taking wounded military service members on 5-day float trips down the Smith River and fly fishing with Healing Waters Lodge in southwest Montana. We, our friends and clients, competitors and […]
Continue reading "Sponsors Needed for Disabled Active/Retired Military Service Men and Women Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana" »Orvis Jackson Mississippi on January 30th
Orvis Jackson Store, Mississippi, January 3o, starting at 5:30 Renaissance at Colony Park, 1ooo Highland Colony Parkway, Suite 9019, Ridgeland, Telephone: 601-856-5347 Mike Geary: Presentation on fly fishing vacations in Montana Mike Geary, owner of Healing Waters Lodge and Lewis & Clark Expeditions, will be at the Orvis Jackson store to talk about fly fishing vacations […]
Continue reading "Orvis Jackson Mississippi on January 30th" »Fly Fishing the Beaverhead River, Montana.
Over 200 years ago, Lewis and Clark discovered the Beaverhead River hoping to find a Northwest Passage. William Clark was overheard saying, “Oops” when they realized their portage over the Rockies was going to be an extra 250 miles. So it goes…. Today, the Beaverhead River flows out of Clark Canyon Reservoir Dam creating one […]
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