Mike Geary writes the Healing Waters Lodge and Lewis & Clark Expeditions Fly Fishing newsletter about six times a year. His newsletters can be quite entertaining and somewhat informative mixed with selling our fly fishing vacations. Mike also tells folks about what is going on in Montana and with groups near and dear to us: Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, LLC (a non-profit), Montana Trout Unlimited and our local TU chapter, Smith River and the proposed mine, and the Ruby Habitat Foundation (MT Land Reliance).
Fly Fishing in the Time of Covid-19 Tennessee Williams, in his play Night of the Iguana, broke down life into two levels: the Realistic and the Fantastic. Make no mistake for better or for worse, in 2020 we are living in the realm of the Fantastic. We are extremely lucky and grateful that we escaped the […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing in the Time of Covid-19" »An Ode to Housekeepers and Fly Fishing Guides Healing Waters Lodge is honored to be a finalist for the 2020 Orvis Fly Fishing Lodge of the Year award. Being nominated two years in a row is really a tribute to all the people that are committed to making Healing Waters Lodge a special place […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana" »Orvis Charleston: January 25th, at 12:30: Interested in fly fishing Montana? Show up at Orvis Charleston, Saturday, January 25th at 12:30, to meet Mike Geary, owner of Healing Waters Lodge in southwest Montana and Lewis & Clark Expeditions, the largest commercial outfitter on Montana’s Smith River, offering 5 day/4 night fly fishing float trips down […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana" »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 […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana" »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, […]
Continue reading "Flyfishing in Southwest Montana" »Shape-Shifters Fly Fishing In Montana We spent the holidays bingeing on TV. The world appears to be consumed by vampires, zombies, shape-shifters, warlocks, witches and extraterrestrials. Not bad if you’re describing the political class but as a fly fisherman I seek a soft stream with gentle riffles and quiet rising fish. The following is the […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana" »Small streams, Fall Fishing and Randolph Scott It is cool this morning, more September than August. I am watching the 1958 movie, Buchanan Rides Alone sta rring Randolph Scott, where the bad guys will all eat a .44 before the movie ends. My idea of summer time bliss: a Randolph Scott move in the morning and hopper fishing […]
Continue reading "Fly Fishing in Southwest 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" »Today is the day that Mike Geary will be on-hand at the Austin Orvis store starting at 2:00 p.m. to talk about our Montana Fly Fishing Vacations – Healing Waters Lodge and Smith River 5-day floats. The address and phone number for the Austin Orvis Store is 10000 Research Blvd, Austin TX, 512-795-8004. Who is Mike Geary? The owner […]
Continue reading "Today Only! Mike Geary presentation at Austin Orvis Store!" »Big Hole River Watershed Committee November 2015 Newsletter (click title to open newsletter) Be sure to get on their mailing list.
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