im working this summer in the west fighting wildfires but i was wone=dering where a good place to flyfish was. im not necessarily looking for huge fish as i enjoy the brookies i catch in the u.p. of michigan but anyone that can inform me i would much appreciate it.

Probably would help if we knew what area your going to be in. The West covers lots of square miles. I live in Northern Idaho and folks are fishing for steelhead on the Clearwater right now. Sea run rainbow trout (steelhead) up to 25 pounds and 4 feet long can be a real thrill on a fly rod. Get a drift boat and guide at Orofino (Riverside) and go for it.

Well, It's definitely not in the streams and reservoirs of Western Montana. I would got to Idaho or someplace else. NO NO just kidding!! If I was gonna go look for nice peaceful Trout fishing I would head for Ennis, Mt. Fish Ennis lake and then fish the river on down into Yellowstone.

Big Sky

Big Timber, Montana

All Boulder Rivers
Yellowstone River
Big Timber Creek
Sweet Grass Creek

Alaska. Big fish and tons of them. Several trout species and 5 species of salmon.

Big Timber, Montana

All Boulder Rivers
Yellowstone River
Big Timber Creek
Sweet Grass Creek When my daughter & sil moved to Absarokee, MT my daughter taught her husband how to clean fish(I taught her well).There are lots of productive streams and lakes that my sil introduced me to in the beartooths where California made power bait worked great,I also used zero & double zero mepps spinners and fly fished.He found a lake after we left that had 5# cutthroats & a feeder stream loaded with smaller cuts.If we ever get back to the area we're going cut fishing.