These dangerous thoughts will be exacerbated if your fishing headquarters happens to be Five Rivers Lodge, operated by Jay Burgin and Mary Jacques.  Say you’ve got a 4:30 a.m. date with an especially large rainbow trout- coffee and breakfast to do some sightseeing and won’t be back until nine that evening?  Fine, dinner will be ready for you when you are.  Need to borrow a Winston rod?  Try Jay’s 9-foot, 5-weight.  Oh, and don’t forget to pick out the fixings for your box lunch before you head out.  You get the picture.  You’ll be spoiled rotten, and in capital R-O-T-T-E-N.
It’s likely that you can, with great willpower, resist the urge to trade your life for the idylls of Big Sky country, what is rightly being called “the last best place.” But you are also likely to encounter people who have given into the siren call, kissed their day jobs and pensions goodbye, and said hello to a life where the pursuit of trout is more important than the pursuit of the buck.
Bob Little, our guide on the Big Hole, is just such an individual.  He’s been guiding for over seven years, having tossed his job as a general manager of a successful gourmet restaurant in Carmel, California.  Now he works for Four Rivers Fishing Company out of Twin Bridges, Montana, also home of the Winston Rod Company.
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