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At Blackfoot River Outfitters, we don’t hire guides based simply by their Montana fishing experience - but rather their life experience.

Your time on the water is valuable. Too valuable to waste on a guide who thinks your trip is about them instead of you. Our guides will put you on fish, improve your angling skills and increase your fly fishing knowledge. Just as importantly, they enjoy sharing a good story, lay out an exceptional lunch spread and generally make fine company. Some of our guides have fished the world over, others grew up in Montana and find it hard to fish elsewhere. We have guides in their 50’s and others in their 20’s. They are students and parents, Easterners and Westerners, musicians and mechanics. All are special and go about the art of guiding in different ways – and all are hired to make the most of your time on the water.

Dan Milligan James Johnsey Stan Anglen Jason Coates Adam Spenner Mark Elliot Jamie Rodgers Leo Larson Clayton Paddie David Morris John and Terri Herzer Clayton Paddie
Raised in southern Arkansas, Clayton Paddie began fishing with his father on the slow moving waters of Yellow Creek—catching bream, crappie and largemouth bass. It wasn’t until he was 12 years old that a chance encounter with a fly rod, a parachute Adams and a 10-inch rainbow began Clayton’s lifelong passion to hook fish on the fly.
Through college he spent many days, some said too many, chasing fish on Arkansas’s trout waters such as the White and North Fork rivers. After college Clayton left the tailwaters of the South to explore wilder rivers in the West, splitting time between Colorado and Montana.
After spending several years chasing fish during Montana’s summers and making powder turns during Colorado’s winters, he and his better half, Dana, put down roots in Missoula. When he’s not on the water enticing leery trout Clayton can be found snooping around the woods looking for elk sheds, chasing bugling bulls during the rut or scaring up birds with his German Wirehaired Pointer, Winston. Clayton’s mild southern drawl and easygoing manner will put any angler at ease while in his boat.