About Us

Bob & Cezanne Alexander:

We are retired "bean counters", and now full time fishing fanatics. Leaving behind the big city life of Seattle, we spend the spring and summer in Ennis, Montana, mostly fishing the Madison, Beaverhead, Hebgen Lake and the Yellowstone Park waters. In the fall we head west for summer run steelhead in the Grande Ronde. This winter was our third year down on the Laguna Madre where we continue to work on the the joys and frustrations of poling a flats skiff in those sometimes high South Texas winds, as we chase redfish and sea trout across the flats. Again in 2007, Cezanne entered the Salt Lake City International Sportsman Exposition distance casting competition. She won the Best of the West Finals for the 2nd year in a row!!

This summer Cezanne will be guiding for Brett Greco and Greco's On the Fly Fishing Charters, with the Dan and Nancy Delekta and the great folks at the Beartooth Fly Fishing and with Craig and Jackie Mathews and their famous West Yellowstone Blue Ribbon Flies. If you are interested in a guided day of fishing with Cezanne give her a call or email cezanne@madisonrivercasting.com to check for availability. (Cezanne's MT Guide License is # 11621)

Perhaps you have dreamed about teasing a Steelie up to a dry fly, learning the graceful moves of a double spey cast, standing in that perfect drift gazing up at 1,000 foot canyon walls while waiting for that subtle tug... Cezanne would be delighted to introduce you to the joys of fishing the Grande Ronde this fall. Call or email to book her in that spectacular canyon (see Guided Trips).

Fly fishing is wonderful in its complexity - there is so much to learn about all the varieties of fish and their quirks; the caddis, mayflies, stoneflies, rodents, terrestrials, bait fish, crabs, shrimp that we try to imitate with feathers, fur, flash, foam and carpet fuzz; the tricks of currents and tides, and secrets of deep pools and still water; all of those knots; the perfect outfit; the delivery of the fly, is it a straight overhead cast or do you add that mend, curve, tuck, bounce, wiggle - maybe a backhand or side arm or off shoulder would be better - no, its too tight - better to roll cast or Spey cast, with a snap-t or snake roll thrown in; then there are all those cool gadgets - enough to sink you if you weren't covered in floatant.....

Here's Bob tussling with a big one at dusk.