My dad and I took a week to go to montana and fish the missourri river and it truly was an experience. We arrived on monday and knew the fishing had to be pretty damn good since we had just looked over a bridge and saw over 50 fish right there, most of them in16-20 inch class. The wind was a tough factor throughout our trip but we still managed to catch alot of fish. We took 2 drifts from the damn down to craig where we were staying and nailed fish all day on nymph rigs and also on small dries. One day the fishing was so good in a few holes that our guide just kept rowing back up the same two holes and we just kept catching fish. On this river the trico hatch is so thick that its not even worth fishing tricos. IF you think the little lehigh has a good trico hatch you better think again. It looked like algae was floating down the stream as there was a 2 inch thick line of tricos floating down the river from 8-11 in the morning. At times if you opened your mouth you couldnt stop the bugs from getting in your mouth. Our biggest producers on the surface were CDC caddis, flying ants, and small olives which imitate the trico dun. The trout were tough but not anything close to delaware standards and the lightest tippet needed was 5x even on the trico patterns which where a size 20. The west definetly makes you realize that sometimes in the east we go a little to crazy and fish alot lighter than we have to. Alot of times its our presentation that needs changing not our tippet size. Our biggest fish was a 24 inch rainbow that was about 3 and a half pounds ,but we some that were bigger including one monster brown that was estimated by our guide to be in the 30 inch class. When the line broke on that one my heart broke with it since I know the chances of me ever having a trout on that big again are not great. Nymphing out there is extremely easy out there. You put on 2 small nymphs and toss them basically anywhere flat holes, riffles, whatever you wnat and you catch a fish every 10 minutes and sometimes more commonly than that. Sounds boring but the challenge comes in the fight and landing them. These fish can really smoke some line out especially up near the dam and a typical landing ratio was 30 percent as claimed by the guide.We did better than that but i think it was because the delaware rainbows give you a run for your money as well and they have taught us how to play a fish like that. Anyway if anyone is ever thinking of going outwest I recomend the missourri as their are lots of fish and lots of big fish. You will have the time of your life and will be spoiled to the point where its probly best not to fish back home for a few weeks until its out of your system.