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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Healing Waters Lodge sits in the heart of the Ruby valley on about 20 acres, with a large trout pond, surrounded by cottonwoods, farm and ranch land with beautiful views in all directions. Healing Waters Lodge property includes:
- Original lodge building: Sitting sitting room, guest business office, bathroom, full kitchen, pool table, and Direct TV television viewing area. Guest room on second floor of the original building. Four additional guest rooms were added to the ground floor of this building: Heritage, Lilly, Granny Yates and Chief Joseph.
- Fly Shop: Stocked with loaner equipment for guest use; and, items for sale such as shirts, jackets, vests, hats, socks, shoes, books, cards, and more.
- Laundry Room: We provide personalized laundry service for our guests.
- Outdoor Hot Tub: Guests can enjoy relaxing after a day of fishing in the outdoor hot tub with a stellar view of farmland leading up to the Ruby Mountain range to the east.
- Four-plex Guest Room Building: Franz Pott and Bitterroot rooms are on the second floor, Henry Plummer and Grayling rooms are on the ground floor.
- Dining Hall Building: Guests enjoy appetizers, beer and wine each evening in the sun-porch room of the dining hall building. The dining hall that can seat up to 23 guests and overlooks the beautiful trout pond. A large professional kitchen accommodates three chefs and kitchen staff in preparing breakfast, lunch and dinner for our guests.
- Exercise Room: Has a electric treadmill, lifting bench, and workout station.
- Casting Pond: About an acre in size, the pond is shaped like a figure 8 fed by a circulating creek and has brown and rainbow trout to help our guests practice their casting and catch and release skills. We keep a path mowed around the pond to make it easy to reach the water.
- Lodge Gardens: Former owner, Janet Lilly, is responsible for establishing the beautiful flower beds and plantings around the grounds. The fruit and vegetable garden is a work in progress.
Nine guest rooms are as clean and comfortable as they are unique. Rod holders and wader hooks keep your gear handy and outdoor table and chairs invite conversation and relaxation. Each room has a view to be enjoyed.
- Rookery: Large second floor guest room in the original lodge building. Two queen-sized beds, private tub, walk-in shower, and toilet, dry sauna, and balcony.
- Heritage: Ground floor, pond side room with covered patio, one king-sized bed and private bathroom.
- Lilly: This room is named after Greg and Janet Lilly and reflects some of their personal interests. Ground floor, pond side room with covered patio, two queen-sized beds and private bathroom.
- Granny Yates: This room is named after Greg Lilly’s pioneer Grandmother. Ground floor, pond side room with a patio, two queen-sized beds and private bathroom.
- Henry Plummer: This room is named after Sheriff Henry Plummer Ground floor, valley view of the Ruby Mountain range with covered patio, two queen-sized beds, private bathroom.
- Franz Pott: Second floor above Henry Plummer, valley view of the Ruby Mountain Range with a large deck, two queen-sized beds, private bathroom.
- Grayling: This room is named after the Aluvial Grayling that inhabit the Big Hole River. Valley view of the Ruby Mountain Range with a covered patio, two queen-sized beds and private bathroom.
- Bitterroot: This room is named after the plant. Valley view of the Ruby Mountain range with a large deck, two queen sized-beds and private bathroom.
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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