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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 Peter Bring
Peter Bring may well have the most diverse angling experience of any guide in Western Montana. Lucky for him, his father also shares his passion for fly-fishing and has the means to travel extensively worldwide.

Peter’s first fish on a fly was a 7-pound bone off of Harbour Island in the Bahamas while fishing with the original “Bonefish Joe” who guided Ted Williams. And that was just the beginning of a “life on the fly.” He has since spent time chasing Atlantic salmon in Laxa i Adaldal, Iceland; spey-casting for the same on the Ponoi River, Russia; flats fishing for bones, permit and tarpon in Mexico, Belize and Florida; and chased peacock in Brazil. But his favorite is an annual trip with his dad to fish the Upsalquitch River in New Brunswick, Canada for Atlantic salmon. Peter has been in the enviable position of benefiting from meeting excellent guides around the world and learning something from each to apply while guiding here in Montana.

Peter attended Environmental Sciences Program at the University of Montana and received an education, plus appreciation for Montana’s unique and diverse ecology, which he enjoys sharing with his clients. For five years he lived in a “guide house” on the banks of the Blackfoot River (his personal favorite) with two other guides, where he learned how to tie effective foam patterns. When guiding single clients he likes to bring along his fish-hunting black lab, Jasper. Peter's quiet and respectful demeanor has made him a favorite of many clients and we are psyched to have him back again this season.