Your days and nights with us at Sweetwater Women's Fly Fishing School will be filled with useful and practical information, incredible accommodations and meals, and loads of fishing. The schedule below will give you a good idea of what to expect during your time with us in Paradise.
3:00 – 5:00 Check-in at lodge
5:00 – 6:00 Happy Hour. Meet instructors and other guests.
6:00 – 7:00 Dinner
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast
8:30 – 9:00 Instruction: Stringing up a Rods
9:00 - 10:30 Roll Cast, Off Shoulder Roll Cast, Pick up/lay down.
10:30 – 11:00 Knots - Improved Clinch, Double Surgeon, Perfections Loop.
11:00 - 12:00 Basic Rigging (Dry Fly, Nymph Rig, Streamer, Dry Dropper)
12:00 – 1:00 Streamside lunch
1:00 – 5:00 Fishing – Story Lake
5:00 – 6:00 Return to lodge. Happy hour!
6:00 – 8:00 Dinner and optional fly tying – Wooly Bugger
7:30 – 8:30 Breakfast
8:30 – 10:00 Entomology
10:30 – 12:00 False Casting, Shooting Line, Reach Mend
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch
1:00 – 6:00 Fishing – DuPuy Spring Creek
6:00 – 8:00 Dinner and optional fly tying – San Juan Worm or Midge
8:00 – 9:00 Reading the Water
10:30 – 4:30 Fishing and Lunch – Yellowstone or Madison River
4:30 – 6:00 Return to Lodge. Happy hour!
6:00 – 8:00 Dinner
7:30 – 9:30 Breakfast, equipment, conservation, fishing overview, Q&A.
10:00 – 2:00 Fishing and lunch - Walk and wade - Armstrong Spring Creek
2:30 – 3:00 Graduation and goodbyes!
*schedule subject to change
Dan Gigone is Montana Licensed Fishing Outfitter #27420.
Site photography by Dan Armstrong: daphotos.com
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