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Livingston Montana Fishing Guides

Let our Livingston Montana fly fishing guides introduce you to our home waters—in a drift boat or on foot, in Montana or Yellowstone Park, famous or under-the-radar.

Yellowstone Country Fly Fishing’s Montana fly fishing guides are based in Livingston, MT, right in the heart of Montana trout country. We offer a wide range of guided fly fishing trips for experts and beginners alike and strive to customize every trip.

Yellowstone River fishing trips are the core of our business, but our guides also run a huge range of other trips. These include float fishing trips on other rivers such as the Madison and Boulder, as well as off-the-beaten path wade fishing trips in Yellowstone National Park.

2025 full-day rates during our late May through September peak season run $650 for solo anglers and $675 for two. Half-day trips are $550. Shoulder season (spring & late fall) and winter trips are cheaper. We don’t offer any pre-packaged multi-day trips, but would be glad to help you plan a custom multi-day package, including lodging.  Click for full details on rates, inclusions, and policies.

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Drift Boat & Raft Float Trips

Our Livingston Montana fly fishing guides offer drift boat and fishing raft trips on the Yellowstone, Boulder, Madison, and several other great rivers. We’ve got hundreds of miles of water nearby.

Available mid-March through early November.

Float Trips

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Float & Wade Trips

Float from spot to spot, then get out to wade fish prime areas that shore-bound anglers can’t reach and most floaters blow right by. Slower-paced than most float trips, faster-paced and less tiring than most wade trips.

Available March through October.

Float & Wade Trips

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Walk & Wade Trips

Hike in to find solitude, scenery, and lots of unpressured wild trout. We emphasize showing our guests the “real Yellowstone” away from the roads and tourist crowds.

Available year-round, weather/water permitting.

Walk & Wade Trips

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Power Boat Trips

Boat pretty mountain and prairie reservoirs with our Livingston Montana fly fishing guides. We’re one of the few outfitters in the region with a power boat, making for less guided competition.

Available April through September.

Power Boat Trips

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Private Water Trips

Private spring creeks and lakes provide easy access and uncrowded fishing for large trout, especially in the spring when other trips are often not at their best.

Spring creeks available year-round. Lakes available April–June and September–October.

Private Water Trips

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Beginner Trips

Are you a rookie overwhelmed by all the options? This page is for you. Here we explain the options that are best for those who have never fly fished before.

Beginner Trips

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Guided Trip Rates, Terms, and F.A.Q.

This page covers the money stuff in detail: rates, deposit and cancellation policies, and inclusions/exclusions.

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Guided Trip Destinations

We’re in the middle of a wealth of fisheries, ranging from top-tier trout rivers like the Yellowstone to tiny mountain trickles. Check out this page to learn where we guide, and the sorts of clients we take to each destination.

Our approximate operations area is shaded in green.

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Guided Trip Packing List

We send out a detailed itinerary for every trip we book, but this page covers the basics you should always plan to bring on a guided trip. It’s not a bad place to begin for packing for your DIY trips, too.

Yes, you need a raincoat. A good one, most of the year. The photo was shot in late May.

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