Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana – Smith River Float Trips

Healing Waters Lodge is an Orvis endorsed fly fishing lodge with a stellar reputation and we are also the largest fly fishing outfitter on Montana’s coveted, Smith River. Mike Geary continues to successfully own and operate, Lewis & Clark Expeditions, for over 25 years.  Our Smith River fly fishing float trip is 59 river miles […]

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Fishing, Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, and More Fishing

  At Healing Waters Lodge we are intimately involved with Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing, Inc., a non-profit organization founded by Retired Navy Captain Ed Nicholson.  Below are testimonials from two friends of ours who assisted us last summer at the lodge working with disabled veterans.  They also represent the quality and character of the […]

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Fly Fishing the Big Hole River with Healing Waters Lodge in Southwest Montana

Big Hole River Description So it begins high in the Beaverhead Mountains, the Big Hole River flows for 153 miles through a fly fishing wonderland filled with Brook, Rainbow, Brown and Cutthroat trout. The Big Hole is the last remaining habitat for fluvial Arctic Grayling in the contiguous United States. Along the Big Hole corridor […]

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Montana Snow Pack Survey = Fly Fishing and more

Healing Waters Lodge and Lewis & Clark Expeditions Smith River fly fishing trips depend on water, of course.  Online, we follow the abundance of information posted on the Montana Natural Resource Conservation Services Snow Survey site.  The information is gathered by the NRCS National Water and Climate Center and other monitoring organizations and placed on this site […]

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Fish Like a Guide, But, Live Like a Client – Fly Fishing Schools

Fly Fishing Schools: April 14-19 and April 23-29 Healing Waters Lodge offers “Fish Like a Guide, But, Live Like a Client” fly fishing schools, typically during the shoulder season in April.  After breakfast, our guides will conduct a brief classroom instruction followed by guided fly fishing on local waters such as the Beaverhead, Big Hole, Jefferson, Madison, […]

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Sponsors Needed for Disabled Active/Retired Military Service Men and Women Fly Fishing in Southwest Montana

Over the past 14 years, it has been our pleasure to recruit folks, that feel the same way we do about our military service members, to assist us in taking wounded military service members on 5-day float trips down the Smith River and fly fishing with Healing Waters Lodge in southwest Montana.  We, our friends and clients, competitors and […]

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