Farlows Magazine
- Wild Fish in the Wild West-

Montana-land of the “big sky”, Robert Redford movies and large trout.  Almost two centuries ago, after the Louisiana Purchase, Thomas Jefferson sent Lewis and Clark off to explore, to seek out the fabled Northwest Passage to the Pacific.  Lewis had more than his fair share of travails back in 1805.  Having found the river Big Hole and named it Wisdom, he was chased by a bear, charged by three buffalo bulls and awoke to find a large rattlesnake hanging in the tree beneath which he had slept.  Add dysentery to this and you wonder how he ever made it!  Just across the Plains, General Custer met his final match, and the area is littered with Red Indian battle sites, sad reminders of past oppressions.
Nowadays things are calmer on the Big Hole and the Beaverhead rivers, and the fighting is limited to fine rods arched against leaping trout.The Five Rivers Lodge has fishing on both of these prime sites, plus other spring creeks and rivers, as the name suggests.   next >