Where stillness& the strike meet.
Five generations reading the Bitterroot's freestone runs and spring creeks. Drift-boat floats, walk-and-wade days, and wilderness float camps for wild trout — barbless, catch-and-release, earned a cast at a time.
Four wild trout,
one home river.
Every trip is guided one-on-the-oars, two anglers to a boat, and tailored to the day the river gives us.
New01Backcountry Alpine Lakes
Climb to the high mountain lakes where the water is glass and the trout rise free. A long day on the trail for fishing few ever see.
Guest Favorite02Backcountry Fly Clinic
A hands-on half day learning to read water and lay a line, on a creek that holds wild trout.
Limited03Bull Trout Wilderness Camp
Pack into a backcountry tent camp and fish for the apex predator of these waters — big, rare bull trout, all carefully released.
04Spring Creek Precision
Glassy spring-creek water and educated trout that demand a perfect drift. The thinking angler's day — technical, slow, and deeply satisfying.
05Westslope Cutthroat Headwaters
Hike into the high headwaters for native westslope cutthroat in water you can see the bottom of. Small flies, willing fish, big country.
Four hulls, each built
for its own water.
Hand-picked, immaculately kept, and matched to your river, your season, and your cast.
We don't run a different river every week. We run one home river, learned across four generations and sixty-four seasons — which is why we can put you on fish when the day says we shouldn't.
Guides who read a seam
most anglers row past.
Career guides, not seasonal hires. You'll fish with the same name on the boat every day of your trip.
The Guide's PledgeWe will not promise you numbers. We will promise you cold water on your legs, the right fly on the right seam, a net we'd rather not use, and every fish returned to the current — because the river was here long before us, and we intend to leave it wilder than we found it.
August & Wade HollisterOwners · Head Guides · Fourth Generation
Know what's coming
off the water.
A living calendar of the bugs that move our trout. Time your trip to the hatch you've always wanted to fish.
The Big Bugs
Salmonflies on the water and the biggest trout in the river lose their minds over the biggest bug of the year. Two weeks of glorious chaos — the best dry-fly fishing the Bitterroot offers, and the first dates to sell out.