I recently traveled to Anaconda, Montana to visit family and to do some fishing. Ed Heim, had told me of some great trout fishing he was doing below the dam at Canyon Ferry Reservoir and I just had to try it. I used to report on the fishing at Canyon Ferry and the Missouri River below the dam many years ago when I was a writer at Fishing and Hunting News, but this would be the first time I could try it myself. We drove from Anaconda, through Butte and over the Continental Divide and then past Helena to Canyon Ferry. It was just 17 degrees when we left Anaconda, but it was in the high 30s when we arrived to do our fishing. The wind was howling, though, and made it difficult to see if we were getting bites. Fishing marshmallows and worms from the shore I landed three rainbow. One was a recent plant. One was a fat 14-incher, and one was a 19-inch 3-pounder. This last fish was what Heim had been catching here, both in the river and through the ice in the winter. It was a great fish and made out day. He wants me to come back and ice fish Canyon Ferry, but with temperatures often at 20 below zero, I don’t know.