The heart of winter is here.

It’s cold and gray and windy on the MO this day- seems to be the case more days than not in the Heart of Winter.

The holidays are long past.

Football had been my focus and obsession as my Lions wrapped up an unprecedented season, seemingly on their march to a first-ever Super Bowl, claiming the first seed in the NFC and then unceremoniously exiting the playoffs in a disastrous divisional round. Now the wait for September and the eternal hope for next season. It is familiar territory in the Heart of Winter.

Tax season is looming in the Heart of Winter.

We’re counting the days until spring and it can’t come soon enough!

It’s not all doom and gloom though. Snowpack is building, days are getting longer and with time doing its thing, spring fishing will be here before you know it.

Are you ready?

We’re in a bit of a holding pattern at the moment in the heart of winter but a few weeks from now the boxes of spring gear will start to arrive, angler traffic will start to bump and the faint pulse will quicken on the MO as life returns.

The Hard Core Winter anglers exist outside of these rhythms and have been here all along – into the heart of winter. They’ve been enjoying an abundance of solitude and reportedly some solid action as of late and will continue to have it to themselves for a few more weeks.

Prime Time is full for the most part. Spring and fall are wide open.

It’s time to think about those spring bookings. March and April can certainly be a crap shoot weather wise, but you can’t really go wrong with May fishing on the MO. Spring action is unrivaled with ridiculously good nymphing, consistent dry fly action on midges and later BWO’s, and of course, spring is king if streamers are your game.

Book a DIY adventure or leave all of the work to us and book a guided day or several. In the heart of winter our guides have grown weary of tying flies and are ready to get back on the water. Please put them to work!

Snow on the way tonight and tomorrow with another cold snap to go along with it but things look pretty good as we hit the middle of next week with the return of highs near 40 and plenty of sunshine.

We’re open Tuesday – Saturday from 9 AM – 4 PM, weather dependent. We won’t likely be around much this weekend with the weather on the way but we hope you make us your first stop on the way to the river next week whether its shuttles, bugs, beds, boats or anything else you might need.