The Big Hole River is fishing pretty darned well right now; flows have continued to fall more or less since their most recent peak on the 7th. Today is forecast to be pretty danged warm (64 at Divide) with rain forecast off and for most of the week, with temperatures dropping back down into the […]
River – Big Hole
Flows on the Big Hole dropped like a rock until yesterday, and friends fishing over that way on Saturday reported water that was only slightly stained and otherwise very fishable. That may be slowly changing (for the worse) as you can see on the flow chart posted. I’m going to dig around a bit and […]
While conditions the next few days won’t be close to what you might venture to call perfect, conditions are improving on the Big Hole. Cooler temperatures have slowed the melt and the watershed did not get a lot of rain as was mentioned in the forecast. Here’s a look at the flow chart at Melrose, […]
Over the past week or so the flows on the Big Hole have been dancing around quite a bit, and there was indeed a big push of water through with flows peaking at something over 2500 cfs during the week last week (14th and 15th), and dang it if she didn’t do it again over the […]
Yesterday afternoon I had the pleasure of talking a while with a friend who has fished Montana waters since he was about was a child; he was born years ago in Billings, and lived around the state a bit. As we sat in the warm sun with temps in the low 60s, talking about the […]
There is a lot of great fly fishing water in Montana – most of it is pretty darned well known to those who frequent the area, some of it is not so well known. In addition to the Yellowstone National Park waters that we’ve been covering for the past several years at Best Fly Fishing […]
