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MT Outdoor Podcast: Downrigger Talks with Neal Cote’ on Western Montana’s Top Fishing Waters

The Waterways of Western Montana! Few Know Them Better Than Neal Cote’ of Bite Me Flies and He Tells Us All About Them! This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks with Neal Cote’ of PikeWhisper.com and Bite Me Flies. Neal is an amazing Fly Fishermen, Custom Fly Tyer and a…

The Waterways of Western Montana! Few Know Them Better Than Neal Cote’ of Bite Me Flies and He Tells Us All About Them!

This week on the Montana Outdoor Podcast your host Downrigger Dale talks with Neal Cote’ of PikeWhisper.com and Bite Me Flies. Neal is an amazing Fly Fishermen, Custom Fly Tyer and a great teacher of fishermen. Believe us, if he can teach ole Downrigger a bunch, he can teach anyone. Neal really went all out in sharing his knowledge in this podcast, from covering the rivers and streams to the hidden lakes that few go to all around Western Montana. And flyfishing is not his only area of expertise he also shared some great knowledge about bait fishing, jigging and well just click here and listen to the podcast. If you have ever wanted to know about all the great places to catch Rainbows, Browns, Brookies, Kokanee, Bass and of course one of his specialties, HUGE PIKE, you just got to click here and listen to this week’s podcast! As Rigger put it; “After talking with Neal, I can’t wait to hit the waterways of Western Montana! This is going to be the best spring and summer of fishing ever!” Neal even shared some great ideas on how to fish the rivers and streams when the runoff is going hard. He also talked about some really cool techniques to trigger fish to bite when they get the lockjaw on those hot summer days! Class is in session gang, and you are going to learn a TON listening to this week’s Podcast!

If you would like to learn more about Neal Cote’ and see all his amazing flies just click here and why not do a little shopping while you are there! If you would like to get some ideas from the websites that Neal and Rigger talked about, click here, or here. Of course, you are already at one of the best outdoor sites you can find right now so do some browsing here after you listen to the podcast. If you would like to ask Neal any questions, click here to send him an email. Don’t forget to tell Downrigger Dale what you thought of this week’s podcast or give him your ideas for topics for future podcasts by clicking here to email him.


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