Customized small group Yellowstone Park and Livingston Montana fly fishing trips for avid anglers – from beginners to experts.
Looking for Livingston Montana fly fishing trips with a small, flexible outfitter that provides a custom experience? You’re in the right place. Welcome.
Yellowstone Country Fly Fishing strives to create relationships with our clients that will last years, rather than just for a day. That’s why over half our trips each year are with repeat clients.
Use our site to familiarize yourself with our guided fishing trips and the waters we fish, or just use the abundant resources to plan your DIY trips.
Owner/outfitter Walter Wiese handles all bookings and trip planning. Feel free to shoot him an e-mail or call to plan a guided trip, order some flies, or just talk fishing.
What makes us different?
- We’ll always tell it to you straight. We prefer 100% honesty with potential clients, even if it sometimes costs us a booking when we admit the fishing is slow.
- The fish don’t always bite, but we can always make our clients better anglers. We focus on education, not just “catching fish.”
- We strive to shed crowds. We start earlier, hike further, float rougher water, and fish the “odds and ends” to ditch the hordes.
- We catch more of our fish on dry flies than anybody else in the area. Bold statement? Yes. We stand by it.
- Standard flies mean standard results. Our bugs are better. We use more of our own custom flies than any other operation.
- Want to try something off the wall on your Livingston Montana fly fishing trips? We’re in. Carp? Definitely! 6″ native trout in off-the-grid creeks? We love them! Dry fly Tenkara out of the drift boat? We’re the only outfitter that does it.
- Single clients use half the flies and eat half the lunch compared to pairs. We’re one of the few guide services to offer reduced rates on Montana fly fishing trips for solo anglers.
Who we are
Walter Wiese is our owner, outfitter, and head guide. If he isn’t already booked on your trip dates, he’ll probably be your guide.
Walter started fly fishing at age 6 in the Missouri Ozarks and tying flies at 11. He started guiding Montana fly fishing trips in 2001. After fifteen years as head guide at a big-name fly shop, he opened Yellowstone Country Fly Fishing in 2018 out of a desire to run a smaller, leaner, and more flexible guide service. Being his own boss is a major side benefit.
We’re small, but not a one man show. When Walter is booked or parties require more than one guide, we turn to a small cast of independent contractor guides. All guides we use are full-time Montana residents with two or more guide seasons under their belts. Nowadays most of these guides are young and hungry, and all of them bust their humps when guiding Livingston Montana fly fishing trips.
All of us might wear thousand-yard-stares and start looking scruffy by the end of a long season, but we’ll be as stoked as you are when you catch a big fish, and we love teaching.
Our clientele
We’ve fished with butchers, bakers, and candlestick makers. Really! Every guide service can cater to just about anybody, and we’re no different.
That said, who likes fishing with us the most? Individuals and small groups of avid anglers of any skill level who want guided Livingston Montana fishing trips that are a bit out of the ordinary. We love clients who want to focus on dry flies, learning more about the sport, and fishing with a conservation-oriented mindset.
Walter describes our marketing strategy as “drown potential clients in information.” If you like that idea, we’re the guide service for you.
Using our site
We just mentioned that we like information-seeking clients. As such, this site is a font of it, both in terms of details on our guide services and custom flies and in terms of general trip planning help.
From our no-BS fishing reports to our detailed trip planning and fisheries pages, it is possible to spend hours here getting psyched for your trip to the region, whether you intend to book with us or not.
As you look around at all the info we’re providing here for free, we ask you to consider one thing: just think about how much we hold back for our clients…