After a long period of high water the Bitterroot is clear and dropping. Warm dry weather over the last month has helped bring a bunch of mountain snow down. There is still a good amount of high elevation snow that should keep the river flowing all summer. Salmon flies have begun to appear on the […]
The Bitterroot reached flood stage at Darby last week and is currently bank full and off color. Not much of an option for fishing and also dangerous for boating. The 180% snow pack of the past winter has begun to melt and this runoff should last well into June. The river may or may not […]
While the warm weather of the past week got the skwala’s hatching and fish rising it also has the river rising. We were starting to see some of the most consistent dry fly action of the spring. However, it doesn’t take much heat to get the water rising with a snowpack of 163%… There isn’t […]
The Skwala hatch has been delayed a bit this year due to cold water temps… Seems like the hatch is about a week or 2 behind… The lower river below Hamilton is your best bet to find adult Skwala’s emerging and hungry trout rising… The big bugs haven’t made much of a showing on the […]
I haven’t been doing much fishing lately but the skiing sure is great. Bitterroot snowpack is slightly below normal and we are getting heavy snow in the mountains today. It’s early yet but the hope is this pattern continues and leaves us with more water in the rivers this year. If you are into winter […]
