Montana to Mongolia
Fly Fishing the World with Dan Vermillion

BY PAT HILL

Livingston may be the base of operations for Montana native Dan Vermillion's guide services, but destinations for his fly fishing adventures extend beyond the borders of Big Sky Country to Canada, Alaska, and even far-flung locations like South America, French Polynesia, and Mongolia. Vermillion, owner of Sweetwater Travel Company in Livingston, turns 43 this month, but he got hooked on fly fishing when he was quite young.

“I probably started fly fishing when I was about five,” he told the Pioneer. “I grew up in Billings…we had a ranch on the Yellowstone and we'd fish there. Then my dad started taking us into the Beartooths, where we'd catch cutthroat by the hundreds…that's really where I got hooked.” READ MORE

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