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 […]
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Lewis & Clark Expeditions Fly Fishing Outfitters, is successfully owned and operated by Mike Geary for over 25 years and counting. L&C Expeditions guides on the Blackfoot, Missouri, Upper Clark Fork, and offers 5-day float trips down the Smith River in Montana. In 2013, Mike bought Healing Waters Lodge, in Twin Bridges, and moved his L&C Expeditions operations from Helena to Twin Bridges. At the end of the fishing season in 2015, Mike added to his outfitting business with the purchase of Lilly & Kemph Outfitters fly fishing business serving southwest Montana on rivers such as the Beaverhead, Big Hole, Jefferson, Madison, Ruby and miles of private water access on spring creeks, streams, ponds and lakes. Lewis & Clark Expeditions continues to be a highly respected force of professional, knowledgeable, dedicated, proud, personable, enthusiastic fly fishing guides at your service.
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" »Fish Like a Guide, But, Live Like a Client – Fly Fishing Schools
Fly Fishing Schools: April 14-19 and April 23-29 Healing Waters Lodge offers “Fish Like a Guide, But, Live Like a Client” fly fishing schools, typically during the shoulder season in April. After breakfast, our guides will conduct a brief classroom instruction followed by guided fly fishing on local waters such as the Beaverhead, Big Hole, Jefferson, Madison, […]
Continue reading "Fish Like a Guide, But, Live Like a Client – Fly Fishing Schools" »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" »Fly Fishing the Big Hole in Southwest Montana
Big Hole River 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 are […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing the Big Hole 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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