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On the third fishing day of our fly fishing trip to Montana, we met some friends in the Gallatin River Canyon outside of Gallatin Gateway. The landscape was very different from the area around the Missouri River, green, lush and full of life. The river was loaded with eager rainbows and browns ranging from 6 to 14 inches and size 12 stimulator flies brought them to the surface with reckless abandon. It was fun fishing, a contrast to the "A" game we needed to bring up on the Missouri and we just fished and laughed all day long. There seemed no end to the amount of fish in each pool and you could stand in one spot and catch fish after fish. If you weren't careful, you could forget that you were standing in one of the most picturesque spots in the world. It was truly wonderful and I hope to get back there one day. The water was clear, cold and the current was surprisingly strong and you could walk in water over your head if you weren't careful because the clear water made it tough to judge water depth. The fish put up respectable fights and even the small ones actually took a bit of line off my four weight fly rod. Best of all, they were wild. The one draw back to the Gallatin River is that it ran right along the road so we were seldom alone but it didn't seem to bother the fish at all. We would catch 20 fish through a stretch and

someone would follow us and catch 20 more. Too cool. I highly recomend this part of Montana.