On 7-Dec-2008, "Rodger" wrote:

. Best time to go is the
first two weeks of August.

My friends there are in Augusta, MT, a small town of about 5 bars, one
gas station, a couple of cafes and a gift shop. Very "Western". It's
o.k. with most if your dog goes in with you. It's possible they might
prefer the dog.

It's about 20 mi.straight west to the mountains and the trail head.
Other directions, if you know the right people, are trout filled brooks,
reservoirs (one of which has pike) and the lower Sun river, which has
some very nice browns.

By the way, Augusta is about 60 mi. straight west of Great Falls.

Never been there sounds nice - real nice
I checked it out in the Atlas.
I will have to go there someday.

In my time - I have been to a few bars like that

August - first 2 weeks is also prime fire season
Certain yrs it's all closed - or at least campfires are severely
restrictred and the rivers are at a sad stage where I would not want to fish
already stressed fish - However last yr was certainly a great exception as
we had plenty of run off.

So far this season is far too warm
I will be doing snow dances real soon.
We need a lot of snow!

Here is a snow song to the snow giods:

SNOWWWWW! SNOWWWW ! OWOOOOSNOWWW OWOOOOOO SNOWWWWWW yeah man 2 3-4
WOHOOOHOOO SNOW yeah man 3 - 4
Snow! 2-3 4-
Oh god of snow give it to us! ... and 4....

Fred