On a recent trip to Great Falls, Montana my brother in law Tom Verschueren and I had the opportunity to fish the Missouri River. On our way there we viewed the Clark Fork several times as I-90 passed over the river. When we turned onto Highway 200, this took us along the Blackfoot River. Smaller than the Clark Fork, it is a very attractive stream. We both were impressed with the number of public fishing accesses we passed on our way to Great Falls. We were going to be free-lancing, by that I mean fishing from shore, and would just have to find a likely looking spot. We turned off Highway 15 when we saw a sign for the Canyon Recreation area. The Missouri is a big river, but we found a likely looking bend, and grabbed our rods and tried our luck off the rip rap bank. On my second cast, my rod made the tell tale bounce and a fish jumped in the middle of the river. I managed to land the fish, which was a nice 15-inch rainbow, and I got another 12-inch rainbow. Not bad for our first shot at the Missouri. We both want to try this river again.