Welcome to the www.sweetwaterflyshop.com links page.  We have worked very hard to accumulate only high quality helpful fishing links for you to use.  If you know of some other good ones please let us know:

 

 

Our Vendors

 

Sage – A great site dedicated to everything Sage. Excellent technical info as well as a great rod selection guide.

 

Scott Fly Rod Co.– Scott Rods are hard to beat. Made in Montrose, CO Scott continually produces great fishing rods.

 

Tibor Reel Corp. – Tibor reels are simply the best fly reel made for large game fish.

 

Galvan Reels – Another must have reel for all species.

 

Waterworks-Lamson Reels – Waterworks-Lamson reels are one of the most popular trout reels in the west. They make great under-wader wear as well.

 

Simms –  A great site on Simms products as well as conservation and guide tips.

 

Fishpond – Fishpond makes great fishing products from boat bags to nippers.

 

Idylwilde Flies – The best fishing flies money can buy.

 

 

Travel Sites

 

Sweetwater Travel – Sweetwater Travel Company, sister company to Sweetwater Fly Shop, owns and operates fishing lodges in Montana, Alaska, British Columbia, Mongolia, Brazil and French Polynesia.

 

Lower Dean River Lodge – The Lower Dean is considered to be one of the best Steelhead lodges in North America.

 

Royal Amazon Lodge – Located on the Aqua Boa in the Amazon Basin the Royal Amazon Lodge is the best Peacock Bass fishery we have found.

 

Royal Coachman Lodge – If you enjoy Alaska King Salmon fishing, fishing for Rainbow Trout and more at one of the nicest Fishing Lodges in Alaska.

           

Copper River Lodge – The Copper River is one of the premier wild rainbow rivers in Alaska; and considered by many, one of the premier rivers in the world.

 

AllTrips - Bozeman Montana – AllTrips travel planning website covering Livingston, Gardiner, and Bozeman Montana.

 

AllTrips - Yellowstone National Park – AllTrips travel planning website covering Yellowstone National Park and the surrounding communities.

 

Yellowstone Valley Ranch – Located in the Paradise Valley on the banks of the Yellowstone River, YVR has great guides, great food and excellent accommodations.

 

Nervous Waters – A fly fishing travel company that owns some of the finest lodges in Argentina, Chile, and the Bahamas.

 

Bairs Lodge – Bairs Lodge on South Andros, Bahamas has come to represent the benchmark in terms of quality guiding, delicious food, ideal accommodations and courteous hospitality.

 

Kau Tapen Lodge - Kau Tapen is the original Lodge in Tierra del Fuego combining elegant accommodations with mind-boggling sea trout fishing.

 

Toonken Lodge - Established in 1997, Toon Ken, situated just upstream of its sister lodge Kau Tapen on the Rio Grande, enjoys some of the most productive pools on the upper river.

 

Villa Maria Lodge - The success at Villa Maria illustrates where nimble thinking can take you. The lodge rests on the grounds of the Jose Menendez Estancia, where the water and the sea trout are fresh.

 

Bella Vista Lodge - Opened in 1995, Bella Vista Lodge is the most exclusive lodge on the Rio Gallegos, offering exciting fishing for giant sea-run trout as well as some of the finest dry fly brown trout fishing, on an intimate spring creek.

 

Pira Lodge – Pira Lodge is located on the Iberá Marshlands in Argentina and offers some of the best Dorado fishing in South America.

 

Conservation Related Sites

 

Big Sky Youth Empowerment Project – The Big Sky Youth Empowerment Project provides disadvantaged youth the chance to get outside and learn a thing or two about themselves in the process.

 

Montana Land Reliance – Founded in 1978, MLR has evolved into one of the most effective private land conservation organizations in the nation with 573,875 acres of ecologically and historically important land protected through conservation easements.

 

Trout Unlimited – Trout Unlimited’s mission is to conserve, protect and restore North America’s trout and salmon fisheries and their watersheds.

 

The Tributary Fund – The Tributary Fund exists to protect ecosystems around the globe by creating conservation awareness, addressing economic needs, and strengthening cultural practices that embody conservation ethics. Adopt a Taimen!

 

The Nature Conservancy – The Nature Conservancy is the leading conservation organization working to protect the most ecologically important lands and waters around the world for nature and people.

 

Sporting Art

 

Whitefish Studio – The website of sporting artist and guide Bob White. Bob paints in the classic style of those who illustrated the sporting books and magazines he was reading when he should have been doing his homework. A professional guide and artist for two decades, he has spent countless hours researching sportsmen and women in action; from the wilderness of Alaska and his rural Minnesota home to the wide-reaching expanses of Argentina.

 

Canvas Fish –  Canvas Fish is Derek Deyoung’s official web site. Derek’s work has veered off from the traditional fish illustration style. His paintings are very contemporary, placing more importance on using a unique style and palette rather than painting a fish to look photo realistic.

 

 

Blogs

Buster Wants To Fish - Dreamy fly fishing romantics.

 

Blanco Honky – Hilarious blatherings from Western Montana.

 

Fat Of The Land – Adventures of a 21^st century forager.

 

Felt Soul Media – Saving trouts and sticking it to the man.

 

Fishing Jones – Games that go with beverages.

 

Fly Boys – Fly fishing for the next generation.

 

Fly Fish Chick – Fishing stories that bite back.

 

Marinated In Awesomeness – Idylwilde Flies awesome blog.

 

Fly Times – Old timey fly fishing blog.

 

Green Alternative – Clean healthy livin’ Minnesota style.

 

Moldy Chum – Your fly fishing news source, well sorta.

 

November Rains - A semi-coherent collection of ramblings, misdealings, and Tom Foolery experienced in pursuit of Great Lakes Steelhead.

 

Opax Fly Fishing – Fly fishing from Finland.

 

Single Barbed – De-barbing fly fishing one hook at a time.

 

String Leech – Bucking tradition, one gaudy ass leech at a time.

 

Tamanawis – A fly fishing season in Scotland.

 

The Big Pull – Ryan Peterson’s blog on adventure travel.

 

The Neil Creek Chronicles – More adipos than most folks.

 

The Trout Underground – Images, words, opinions, wierdness.

 

This Is Fly Daily – Fly fishing with a DJ.

 

Way Up Stream – Fly fishing and all that relates.

 

Sweaty Waders – The blog of Sweetwater Travel and Sweetwater Fly Shop.

 

Up’ North Maine Fly Castings – Benjamin Rioux’s fly fishing blog.

 

 

Other Sites

 

FishEyeSoup – FishEyeSoup.com is a great resource for fishing reports, conditions and news.

 

MidCurrent Fly Fishing - MidCurrent is an independent provider of news and advice about fly fishing gear, techniques, trips and literature for trout, warm water and saltwater fly fishers.

 

Montana Boat Builders – Montana Boat Builders build the best wooden drift boats around.

 

Montana Fish Wildlife and Parks – Montana State FWP’s site. Great info and you can buy your license online.

 

USGS Stream Flow Montana – Streamflow data for most of Montana’s rivers and streams.

 

Live Water Properties - Live Water Properties specializes in servicing clients for hunting and fly fishing properties in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and the alpine regions of the northern Rockies.

 

Travel Montana – The official Montana State travel site.

 

Smallmouth Bass Flies - Purchase the most effective flies designed specifically for smallmouth bass fly fishing.

 

The Weekly Fly - Free weekly fly tying videos

 

Cool Works Yellowstone Web Cam – The Electric Peak web cam of the Yellowstone River curtsey of CoolWorks.com